Bear Lore

We're not even making this shit up.

What's that? A large, furry, aggressive animal has just interrupted your party? BEAR LORE TIME!

Roll a Nature check.

• DC15: Cave bears live in caves.

• DC20: Dire bears like to attack with their natural weapons.

For the same DC regarding manticores, you get to know it has 3 rows of teeth and that it can speak common and that it can be tricked easily.

The bear lore meme started right when the 4th edition core books were leaked online. After paging through them, someone found a chart for "bear lore" which had dc checks to find out amazingly stupid things about bears. Someone posted this on /tg/ and there were many lulz to be had as people continued to talk about what else there is to learn about bears, among other things. The meme originated here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1839136/

It should be pointed out however that we know about bears because we likely attended school in the first world. To a dirt farming pseudo-darkage commoner it like is a DC 15 check to know where a random forest animals they have likely never seen lives. Then again, most pre-literate cultures have rich oral traditions that teach people how to survive encounters with the various predators of their region - these are goddamn mundane bears we're talking about, not manticores or basilisks. A Dark Age peasant isn't going to know about evolutionary biology, but he sure as hell will know something about wolves and how to deal with them.

Alternatively, a Religion check on bears provides the following:

• DC15: Bears do not attend any continuous services of worship. They are ready to kill at all hours of the week.

• DC20: They mysteriously vanish every winter, perhaps to give reverence to their perverse fertility goddess while gorging on the souls of men lost to famine.

• DC25: Bear society has no visibly ordained clerics.

• DC35: SHIT NEVERMIND THEY HAVE THEM RUN.

Other Lore

Bee Lore

A character knows the following information with a successful Nature check.

• DC15: Bees generally live in hives or trees.

• DC20: NO!! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!!! AAGGH!!! THEY'RE IN MY EYES! AAAGGGGHHH!!1!

• DC 25: I'M COVERED IN BEEEEEEES (-10 to all seduction checks)

Fire Lore

A character knows the following information with a successful Nature check.

• DC15: Fire is Hot

• DC20: Only YOU can prevent forest fires

• DC25: If you were smart enough not to touch fire, you'd not NEED the stop-drop-roll info, and if you touched the fire, it's too late to make that check now. Enjoy burning to death!

• DC30: IT'S FUCKIN' HOT IN HERE.

Water Lore

A character knows the following information with a successful Nature check.

• DC15: The water is cold.

• DC20: You can drink water.

• DC25: When immersed in water, organisms with lungs cannot breathe.

Fuzzy Wozzie Lore

• DC5: Fuzzy Wozzie was a bear

• DC10: Fuzzy Wozzie had no hair

• DC15: Fuzzy Wozzie was a loli?

Cliff Lore

• DC15: Cliffs usually live at the edge of things

• DC20: If you walk off a cliff you will be hurt

• DC25: All of the gods know that 4th edition sucks and urge you to jump and end it all

Spy Lore

• DC15: The knife in your back was placed by a spy

• DC20: GENTLEMEN

• DC25: That's your blood on his suit

• DC35: I was a spy all a long.

Human Lore

• DC10: They are squishy

• DC20: They're bastards most of the time.

• DC30: HOLY SWINGING FUCK THEY LIVE IN CITIES? MIND = BLOWN

Pyro Lore

• DC20: Pyro haet spies

• DC25: Pyro has a flamethrower

• DC30: Flamethrower kills spies dead

Dark Lore

• DC10: It's dark in here.

• DC15: You may be by a grue.

• DC20: OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.

• DC25: Shoulda brought a candle.

Tzeentch Lore

• DC10: Tzeentch likes birds.

• DC20: Tzeentch makes plans.

• DC25: Just as planned.

• DC30: Just as planned.

• DC35: These dice are loaded, and will roll exactly what Tzeentch wants you to roll.

• DC99: Just as planned.

Economy Lore

• DC10: The state of the economy is excellent.

• DC15: There is a problem with Fannie Mae.

• DC20: OMG

• DC25: You can purchase "The Republic of Iceland" on eBay for $229.99 (inc. VAT).

Plan Lore

• DC10: Make a Plan.

• DC15: Carry out Plan.

• DC20: ????????????

• DC25: PROFIT!

Nebbish Lore

• DC20: Being unknowingly nebbish is annoying.

• DC25: Being deliberately annoying is nebbish.

• DC35: GTFO!

Cat Lore

A character knows the following information with a successful Nature check.

• DC10: Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate.

• DC15: Cats eat mice

• DC20: Cats Hate you. No exceptions.

Hat Lore

A character knows the following information with a successful Irish check.

• DC15: Hats live on hatracks, or people's heads.

• DC20: Hats can be used as a drinking apparatus.

• DC25: Casey wore his brand new hat to Murphy's wake last night. Someone stole his hat and, boy, it started up a fight.

• (DC40: Commissars wear hats.)

Gallery

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  Cave bears live in caves.

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  A bear and its natural weapon.

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  BEAR LORE: LEARN IT.

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  Another reason take Bear Lore as a feat.

See Also

• Bear cavalry
• Bear trap
• Angry Bear