Recall Knowledge (Detailed)

Recall Knowledge is a secret check — the GM rolls for you and tells you what you learn.

Attempting to Recall Knowledge about a creature uses the skill associated with that creature’s type (see the Creature Identification Skills reference table). The DC is typically the creature’s level-based DC.

Critical Success You learn specific, useful information about the creature. The GM might tell you one of its best-known abilities, a significant weakness, or a key resistance.

Success You learn something useful — the creature’s identity and one piece of useful information (a well-known ability, its general strengths, etc.).

Failure You learn nothing.

Critical Failure You recall incorrect information about the creature.

Key Rules

• •You can attempt to Recall Knowledge about a given creature only once per encounter, unless you critically fail (in which case you can’t try again at all)
• •The GM decides what information you learn — you can’t ask for specific stats
• •Applicable Lore skills often have an easier DC (typically Easy or Very Easy adjustment)
• •Common creatures give less novel information; rare creatures reveal more