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<blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 6036409" data-attributes="member: 150">My Co-DM and I have done away with monster knowledge checks for our game -- as a house rule experiment.&nbsp; We had reached a point where it was just part of the standard procedure at the start of an encounter, and was used to determine what the monster's weaknesses might be, etc. What I do -- as I try to make more of an effort to describe the scenes we set up for the players -- is I keep a matrix of skills my PCs are trained in handy, and I try to make some notes of details of a room or opponent that they might notice or be able to take advantage of because of their training in that particular skill.&nbsp; I don't do it as often as I want to, but it's my own way of trying to both encourage myself to develop some better habits about describing the encounter areas for my players and replacing the pro forma monster knowledge check. -rg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Radiating Gnome, post: 6036409, member: 150"] My Co-DM and I have done away with monster knowledge checks for our game -- as a house rule experiment. We had reached a point where it was just part of the standard procedure at the start of an encounter, and was used to determine what the monster's weaknesses might be, etc. What I do -- as I try to make more of an effort to describe the scenes we set up for the players -- is I keep a matrix of skills my PCs are trained in handy, and I try to make some notes of details of a room or opponent that they might notice or be able to take advantage of because of their training in that particular skill. I don't do it as often as I want to, but it's my own way of trying to both encourage myself to develop some better habits about describing the encounter areas for my players and replacing the [I]pro forma[/I] monster knowledge check. -rg [/QUOTE]

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