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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2079447" data-attributes="member: 3146">Actually, you're not. The rules for knowledge skills provide a way for the players to get extra information from the DM. They are most emphatically not required in order to justify not acting like a moron.There is no requirement that PCs fumble around like idiots and let the troll regenerate and kill them all if they don't have knowledge nature. Nor is there a requirement that PCs continue using the same weapon that doesn't work against an evil outsider if none of them make the knowledge planes check. What the rules for knowledge skills do is give players who don't have the appropriate knowledge a way to get some relevant information from the DM. And that's a good thing. Otherwise, anyone without every knowledge skill would be helpless against certain kinds of monsters--and the game isn't supposed to be &quot;the fighters fumble around doing the wrong thing until someone with knowledge as a class skill tells them what they're supposed to do.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 2079447, member: 3146"] Actually, you're not. The rules for knowledge skills provide a way for the players to get [i]extra[/i] information from the DM. They are most emphatically not required in order to justify not acting like a moron. There is no requirement that PCs fumble around like idiots and let the troll regenerate and kill them all if they don't have knowledge nature. Nor is there a requirement that PCs continue using the same weapon that doesn't work against an evil outsider if none of them make the knowledge planes check. What the rules for knowledge skills do is give players who don't have the appropriate knowledge a way to get some relevant information from the DM. And that's a good thing. Otherwise, anyone without every knowledge skill would be helpless against certain kinds of monsters--and the game isn't supposed to be "the fighters fumble around doing the wrong thing until someone with knowledge as a class skill tells them what they're supposed to do." [/QUOTE]

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