TIL, D&D version

[estirose]

So, in D&D 3e/3.5e/Pathfinder 1e, there was this skill called Knowledge (). You could have any sort of knowledge, not all of them came up, but it covered things like knowledge (religion), knowledge (local), knowledge (dungeoneering), knowledge (history) and anything you could think of.

Pathfinder 2e uses a skill called Lore, which is sort of the same thing (but also encompasses the old Profession skill from 3/3.5/Pathfinder 1e). It's a roll to make money/recall information about a subject - so for example, a character with herb lore would know how to look for fresh herbs, an accountant lore person could make money with accounting, and so on.

D&D 5e... doesn't use either. It has some Int-based skills you can pick up (and apparently a plain Intelligence check for the rest), but there's nowhere near the variety of the other games. Compared to the class skills in D&D 3e it's a bit of a relief, but still....

(I mean, one of the people in my current Pathfinder 2e game took the Barrister background, which gives the character Legal Lore, which means that the character knows a lot about legal contracts and therefore our party is less likely to get into a contract with a devil, for example. I find it a bit odd that D&D 5e doesn't have something as explicit as that.)

So if you're playing D&D 5e and hear D&D3e/3.5e/Pathfinder players calling for Knowledge or Lore checks, you know that they're looking at things similar to Intelligence (Arcana), Intelligence (Religion), or Intelligence (History) checks.

Comments

[malinaldarose]

Sounds complicated. My group never played anything newer than 2nd ed.

[estirose]

Eh, it's what happens when two different descendants of the same game go in two different directions. I confused someone who plays D&D 5e by talking about Knowledge/Lore and yep... handled a bit differently between games!