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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6868755" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>That sounds like a playable character to me, sure, but your DM is the one who decides whether any given background is suitable for their campaign. If you came to the DM with this having been an element of your backstory, and the DM approved it, then it would be a poor DM who later decided that your character didn't actually know that. I can't imagine that sort of DM would have many players who were willing to put up with that for any significant period of time.</p><p></p><p>More likely, the DM would say that trolls are too rare (or new) for your grandfather to have heard tales about them. Alternatively, the DM might say that trolls are so common that <em>every</em> adventurer has heard tales. Somewhere in between, a DM might allow an Int-based check to any character that grew up within a certain region of the world, where trolls actually exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6868755, member: 6775031"] That sounds like a playable character to me, sure, but your DM is the one who decides whether any given background is suitable for their campaign. If you came to the DM with this having been an element of your backstory, and the DM approved it, then it would be a poor DM who later decided that your character didn't actually know that. I can't imagine that sort of DM would have many players who were willing to put up with that for any significant period of time. More likely, the DM would say that trolls are too rare (or new) for your grandfather to have heard tales about them. Alternatively, the DM might say that trolls are so common that [I]every[/I] adventurer has heard tales. Somewhere in between, a DM might allow an Int-based check to any character that grew up within a certain region of the world, where trolls actually exist. [/QUOTE]
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