When examining PCs, the info displayed is Wisdom-driven.
I don't think Lore affects it.
As far as the suggestion:
1) Lore is already a valuable skill that doesn't need boosting IMO.
2) Bards are a strong class, and such a change would make them even stronger, given they are inherently good at Lore without investing points.
3) It seems pretty involved to program as described. That is, wouldn't every creature have to be coded separately?
Well, the idea is rp centerd, so I dont really mind bards knowing alot about a creature's origin/behavior/motivations etc because bards are supposed to know things, as does any character with high lore.
When , for example, a party meets a bone golem - it's logical that the unlearned fighter will not know what it is other than how it looks, while the wizard knows the origin, type, subtype and whatever lore is behind it.
but yes, it'l be alot of work to do it, as each creature type would have a unique "lore-description" just as each got a unique normal description
Although it is true that high-lore characters should know things, the Lore skill mechanically is defined as for identifying
items. That's pretty valuable as is. Any DM can likewise ask a PC to use Lore to determine knowledge and recognition in specific situations.
For fair game play and diversity of classes and builds, however, the server must keep it so that classes (and skills) are relatively mechanically balanced. Bards already are perhaps the most diverse base class in the game. In terms of RP, they certainly shine between having high lore and high perform.
Casters are already generally strong as well, and most of them have Lore as a class skill.
These are minor arguments in that I don't think making Lore more valuable and giving it added utility would break the game; it incrementally tilts game play, however, in a direction that does not need adjustment. If Lore were largely useless or bards a weak class, then I'd be more supportive of Devs showing this kind of "love."
Of more concern is how the change would work and the difficulty in programming--not to mention how OOC it might become. Qualities like DR, for example, are not IC attributes (which is why Wis does not report stat numbers but word approximations).