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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flipguarder" data-source="post: 4865942" data-attributes="member: 61430">The discussion between dracosuave and dr sage is an interesting one. The addition I would like to add is that from a strictly gameplay pov it would be much less fun for the defender if the majority (or even a large minority) of the things he fights understand the role and abilities of a defender. Here's why:The defender is the only role that is specifically built around decieving the monster. You are spending every action attempting to get all the monsters in the area to attack you. If you are simply unable to do your job because everything you fight understands that, and ignores you at every turn, that is a terrible way to play any game.As a DM however, I believe that monster knowledge checks should yield something. I believe that racials are the most reasonable things to issue to monsters who make knowledge checks on players. The most awesome of checks resulting in the preferred classes for that race.</blockquote>