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The document explains how Knowledge checks determine Difficulty Class for identifying creatures, including baseline DC rules tied to monster HD and how higher results reveal type, subtype, resistances, immunities, and specific lore. Monster entries shown include Aboleth, Abomination, and Afflicted Beast with DC-result lore, plus in-world narrative text and quotations.","The definitive 3rd edition Ravenloft Monstrous  \nList  \nSources:  \n• The main sources for this document are :  \nJohn W Mangrum’s A-Z monsters list, and the blurbs project, as suggested by fans on the FoS site (from the years 2006 to 2007), and  \nKnowledge checks for monsters posted on the WotC board by fans, of which JWM did a large part, especially for the monsters found in Ravenloft.  \n• Chris Nichols additional suggested monster list, either on the main board, or while working on the Nocturnal Sea report.  \n• Plus monsters added by Joël Paquin of the FoS:  \n-from WotC’s Monster Manual 5 (which wasn’t released when the A-Z project started);  \n-some new monsters from Dragon mag and Pathfinder, as well as interesting sources,-monsters from FoS report (Souragne, Zherisia, Nocturnal Sea), FoS VRS Dopp files.  \n• It includes the official erratas, and the suggested fix, official or not  \n• Additional names for monsters  \n• New monster files and things posted by RL authors  \n• This PDF can be searched with Ctrl-F!  \nIf you want to add blurbs to monsters that do not have one, please sent them my way, I’ll add them to this document!  \nKnowledge check: APeekBehind the Rules Curtain  \nSo how do designers determine the Difficulty Class for Knowledge checks about creatures? The following is excerpted from Monster Manual IV:  \nThe description of the Knowledge skill indicates that in general, the baseline DC of checks to identify monsters and remember one bit of useful information about their special powers or vulnerabilities is equal to 10 + the monster's HD. Every 5 points by which the check result exceeds the DC yields another useful piece of information (PH 78).  \nAs a general rule of thumb, a DC 15 check or higher will reveal all of the base creature's type and subtype traits as defined in the glossary. This often includes information about energy resistance or various immunities. For instance, a DC 15 Knowledge (arcana) check reveals that dragons have high hit points (12-sided HD), all good saves, and have darkvision out to 60 feet and low-light vision. They eat, sleep, and breathe.  \nInformation specific to the creature, such as its type of damage resistance, spell-like abilities, orimmunities come with the high DC check results.  \nA  \nAboleth [Monster Manual]  \nCR7 Proposed by CNichols for the NS Gaz See also: Aboleth \"Ecology of the Aboleth, The\"Brandon Grist Dragon\\#131(36) D&D1  \nAbomination [Carnival]  \nCharacters with ranks in Knowledge (Ravenloft) can learn more about abominations. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.  \nDC Result  \n16 This hideous mass of writhing flesh is an abomination, a nearly mindless mutation. This result reveals all aberration traits.  \n21 An abomination’s misshapen lump of a body sprouts numerous dangerous limbs and appendages, which pose unique threats. No two abominations are alike.  \n26 Abominations were once normal humanoids, but were transformed by unthinkable magic. Driven insane and trapped in this form, abominations are immune to polymorph effects, fear, and all forms of mind control.  \n31 Abominations are created at the whim of Isolde, mistress of the Carnival that displays these monstrous freaks.  \n36 Only a wish or miracle can restore an abomination to normal.  \n---  \n“Behold this freak among freaks, this monster in the eyes of monsters. I defy you to tear your eyes from the mass of roiling, noisome flesh at the bottom of this dank pit. A true horror, is it not? So malformed, one would never suspect that the shapeless fiend you look upon was once a man like any one of you.”  \n—Professor Archemo Pacali, Carnival barker  \nAfflicted beast [new]  \nJWM: I'm not quite done with the afflicted beast yet, but basically it's an option for what happens when a lycanthrope bites a normal member of its phenotype (a werewolf biting a wolf, for example) and afflicts it with lycanthropy. 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