Example of an untrained Knowledge (Nature) check...

[The Vorpal Tribble]

...with a negative intelligence modifier.

http://www.fairplex.com/2007/video/CASHMERE.mov


This is the first time I do believe I've ever laughed while also trying to keep down bile

[evisiron]

Hehe, very good. Crazy Americans...

[CrazyMuffinMan]

...with a negative intelligence modifier.

http://www.fairplex.com/2007/video/CASHMERE.mov


This is the first time I do believe I've ever laughed while also trying to keep down bile

...and a natural 1, and -bestow curse- on ability/skill checks. YIKES.

[Brickwall]

XD

That's soooo wrong.

In so many ways.

[Green Bean]

See, this is why I'm glad I lived in a place where 'my cow was giving birth' is a valid excuse for missing class. Saves you from looking like...that.

[purple gelatinous cube o' Doom]

wow....that's about all I can summon to say about that. But do have to give kudos to the writers of that commercial for taking a pot shot at the Paris Hilton stereotype.

[SurlySeraph]

I know some people who know about that much about nature. They all have tons of ranks in Knowledge (fashion) and Knowledge (cell phones), though, so I don't think they necessarily have Int penalties.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Hehe, very good. Crazy Americans...

Bah, you mean crazy Californians, which is also an oxymoron

...which is odd because Krimm has informed me that california is also one of the biggest bovine raising states.

Crazy california coasters then, I dunno.

[Em Blackleaf]

Bah, you mean crazy Californians, which is also an oxymoron

...which is odd because Krimm has informed me that california is also one of the biggest bovine raising states.

Crazy california coasters then, I dunno.

But, but, I'm from California, and I'm smarter than that.

[Dragonrider]

Em, you're also posting on the GiantITP forums, showing (I hope) a higher-than-average intelligence stat (either that or we're all morons).

No...I know some girls like that too.
And then they ask me "Why don't you spend time with girls your own age? You MUST have something in common!"
OK, I live in a cowboy town, half the people I know have been riding since before they could walk and know more about cows than I ever will, or ever want to.

But...
sickening.

[Em Blackleaf]

Em, you're also posting on the GiantITP forums, showing (I hope) a higher-than-average intelligence stat (either that or we're all morons).

No...I know some girls like that too.
And then they ask me "Why don't you spend time with girls your own age? You MUST have something in common!"
OK, I live in a cowboy town, half the people I know have been riding since before they could walk and know more about cows than I ever will, or ever want to.

But...
sickening.

No, I'm sure you're not morons... oh, and me too, I'm not a moron either!

But, yes, that's just sickening.
However, I imagine the actresses are smarter than that, as they can read the word cow on a script!

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

hay im frum kalifarnea and im nat dum at al!

buneez r fuzee

i lyk buneez

[LCR]

See, this is why I'm glad I lived in a place where 'my cow was giving birth' is a valid excuse for missing class. Saves you from looking like...that.

Well, they look good, don't they?

[Youngblood]

I know it's just a comercial, but that was freakin' painful to watch. It's like watching a train wreck. You can see it coming, but there's just nothing you can do about it. Only in this case, brain cells are the only casualties.

[The_Chilli_God]

I laugh, as it is a prime example of *Tsk Tsk* intelligence.

"Nice flock of cows."
"Herd of cows."
"Yes, I have. Heard of chickens?"

[Ranis]

I can't imagine how very scary the LA county fair would be.

[Green Bean]

Well, they look good, don't they?

Yes, they do. I was merely being polite by not implying that they were a pack of bloody idiots.

[Maryring]

I don't get any sound of it and I can't lipread... can someone tell me exactly what they're saying?

[Arang]

"Mom, I really like this."
"Cute!"
"What's it made of?"
"Wool."
"Like, from a cow?"
"Uh-huh."
"Duh, Ashley, all wool comes from a cow."
"Does cashmere come from a cow too?"
"Uh-huh!"
"The boy cow or the girl cow?"

If there's anywhere that could really use a county fair, it's L.A.

"The boy cow."
"Oh, okay."
"Oh, you mean the one with the-" *horn gesture*
"With the tusks."

[paddyfool]

Hmm. Reminds me of a few stories:

Like the crazy story of one vegetarian who told me that their parents denied meat came from dead animals. (No, I'm not saying vegetarians are crazy, just the story).

Or the one about a group of inner city kids being terrified to leave their tent because there was a "buffalo" (cow) outside.

Or the even sadder one about another inner city kid leaving the city for the first time and asking what those lights in the sky were...

... ah, well.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

That seriously scares the bejeebus out of me, Paddy...

[Castaras]

Those girls reminded me of kids I know at school. A few of those girls were almost exactly the same as the girls at school...

*sigh*

Didn't laugh. Was just...Stupid. To the nth degree...

[paddyfool]

That seriously scares the bejeebus out of me, Paddy...

Which one?

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Which one?

The last one in particular, but all in general. Ignorance to that degree is horrifying.

[paddyfool]

Ignorance to that degree is horrifying.

True. I wonder, however, if it would be playable to have a D&D flaw of Total Ignorance(Knowledge skill), which gives you a -5 penalty to all checks in a given knowledge skill, and also doubles the cost of points in that skill. Could be good for a comic game, and although it may seem cheap if you pick an apparently irrelevant skill like Knowledge(architecture), a good DM could still see ways to exploit it. (Although you'd still want to rule out Knowledge (local, irrelevant location)).

Or maybe you could have General Ignorance which would give you a small (-2) penalty to all Knowlege skills, and make all Knowledge skills always cross-class. What do you reckon?

[blue_fenix]

True. I wonder, however, if it would be playable to have a D&D flaw of Total Ignorance(Knowledge skill), which gives you a -5 penalty to all checks in a given knowledge skill, and also doubles the cost of points in that skill. Could be good for a comic game, and although it may seem cheap if you pick an apparently irrelevant skill like Knowledge(architecture), a good DM could still see ways to exploit it. (Although you'd still want to rule out Knowledge (local, irrelevant location)).

Or maybe you could have General Ignorance which would give you a small (-2) penalty to all Knowlege skills, and make all Knowledge skills always cross-class. What do you reckon?

I would do it more as Ignorance: -1 penalty on all knowledge checks. Whenever it would be appropriate to roll a knowledge check as determined by the DM, the character must roll a dc 10 knowledge check in the appropriate skill to avoid believing they know something that is actually false.

[PlatinumJester]

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[Thes Hunter]

The last one in particular, but all in general. Ignorance to that degree is horrifying.

It just makes me want to sign up as a big brother or a big sister.

Kids from the hood here in rural Wisconsin would still know what stars look like, since even the city here is pretty small.

But really makes me wish I had sponsored a kid back in Cincy. Cincy was sprawling enough, and the poverty devastating enough that those kids might not have had a chance to leave the city and see that not everything was like where they came from, and that they had more choices than staying there and remaining in that environment after school.

[Ceres]

I've actually heard some emo/goth kids here in Oslo have a conversation about he/she cows. I also had a conversation with a girl that really couldn't understand where meat was located in animals. We've got morons here as well.

[Brickwall]

I also had a conversation with a girl that really couldn't understand where meat was located in animals. We've got morons here as well.

Uhh...it's on the inside...right?