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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8472272" data-attributes="member: 71699">I agree that we're really just making reasonable inferences. From skimming posts, it seems most agree that their presence has some meaning.One explanation suggested above is that such skills are strictly for NPCs to use against NPCs. Although for me that is a reasonable use case, I don't believe that was on the designers' minds when they wrote &quot;A monster is defined as any creature that can be interacted with and potentially fought and killed... The term also applies to... civilized folk who might be friends or rivals to the player characters.&quot; Friendship and rivalry sounds like social interaction, to me. Overall, what seems envisioned is that PCs will interact with NPCs (monsters.)I think it would be possible to say - yes, the PHB lays out the meaning of those skills for player characters, but it is silent on the meaning of those skills for monsters. So the matter is one of incompleteness, rather than contradiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8472272, member: 71699"] I agree that we're really just making reasonable inferences. From skimming posts, it seems most agree that their presence has some meaning. One explanation suggested above is that such skills are strictly for NPCs to use against NPCs. Although for me that is a reasonable use case, I don't believe that was on the designers' minds when they wrote "[I]A monster is defined as any creature that can be interacted with and potentially fought and killed... The term also applies to... civilized folk who might be friends or rivals to the player characters.[/I]" Friendship and rivalry sounds like social interaction, to me. Overall, what seems envisioned is that PCs will interact with NPCs (monsters.) I think it would be possible to say - yes, the PHB lays out the meaning of those skills for player characters, but it is silent on the meaning of those skills for monsters. So the matter is one of incompleteness, rather than contradiction. [/QUOTE]

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