Testing elemental resistances.

[Rath the Brown]

There's the Know Protections spell from Magic of Faerun. Gives you knowledge of a creature's damage reduction, spell resistance, and any resistances or immunities to energy attacks.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

There's the Know Protections spell from Magic of Faerun. Gives you knowledge of a creature's damage reduction, spell resistance, and any resistances or immunities to energy attacks.

Excellent, sounds like the droids I was looking for!

Will have a word with the DM and see if that can be allowed.

Thanks very much!

 

[Dross]

That is a big maybe. The DM will have the call which info bits you get.

Although i feel there should be a rough order of bits of information that is given out, with the most commonly "known" information.
working from memory, a knowledge check could provide the following list (roughly) in this order
a) don't have bodies like most other creatures (no criticals)
b) are not affected or resistant to their element
c) more suseptable to their opposite element
d) have movement abilities beyond what is normal for a human, elf etc
e) special attacks (because it's easier for people to remember how they were hurt)
f) special defences (sometimes there could be a number of reasons why something worked before but not now).

only at "d" or maybe "c" do you start getting into element specific information.

Admitedly the order could change somewhat, but that goes from most common to creature specific to hardly known (at least IMHO, but YMMV)

Dross