Using the Knowledge Skills


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While playing the Doomsday Dawn The Lost Star Scenario, we had some difficulty with using knowledges.

First, unlike in the old Pathfinder rulebook, Pathfinder 2.0 doesn't have a nice section that says what knowledges are used to identify what items or monsters. We didn't really know how to identify a monster or how to determine the DC. We also looked in the Playtest Bestiary, but although the little box at the top of a type of monster lists things like evil, demon, humanoid, etc, it didn't say what type of knowledge to use to identify it or how much information you get from your DC. Maybe we missed it in the playtest rulebook, but identifying monsters from what we were used to previously did not go smoothly.

Second, although exploration mode is flexible in timeframe, we were surprised to find that identifying a magic item took an hour to focus on in game. When we found the healing potion when searching one of the goblins, it would have been nice to use it right away instead of assuming an hour went by before being able to identifying it.

Scarab Sages 4/5 5/55/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Australia—NSW—Greater West

Hi there, there is a thread on this topic here here

It tells you the DCs, but confirms that the type of skills to use appears nowhere.

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