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The best part of this story is the correct usage of "metagaming".
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D&D General Should a low level character know to burn a troll?
The best part of this story is the correct usage of "metagaming".
Tony Vargas
Legend
They should know if they want to survive!
Metagame: eh, yes in any typical D&D fantasy world. If your world has exactly one regenerating fire-vulnerable troll, probably not.
If you want a creature with unknown weaknesses, make a unique creature or use something much rarer. My group had no idea how to fight a Flying Polyp...
Metagame: eh, yes in any typical D&D fantasy world. If your world has exactly one regenerating fire-vulnerable troll, probably not.
If you want a creature with unknown weaknesses, make a unique creature or use something much rarer. My group had no idea how to fight a Flying Polyp...
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Hell, when my players see a creature regenerate they just have one character hit it with Chill Touch and everyone else keeps wailing on it with whatever they would have used anyway.
First of all, the game is the metagame. Every interaction a player conducts between their character and the world is metagaming.
Second, why in the world would you want to punish your players for biting the plot hook?
Oofta
Legend
It's funny. No one bats an eye when the PCs face down terrors that would send me running. That they should probably all be suffering PTSD and retire as soon as they have enough money to start a small business.
But the PCs generally don't do that because they're not us. Whether I'm playing a brutal barbarian or a wily wizard I'm trying to put myself into the shoes of an imaginary character. So while I can't ever recreate the time I played a game where I didn't know how to stop troll's regen (assuming there ever was a time, for me there wasn't) I can try to play the game from the PC's perspective.
But the PCs generally don't do that because they're not us. Whether I'm playing a brutal barbarian or a wily wizard I'm trying to put myself into the shoes of an imaginary character. So while I can't ever recreate the time I played a game where I didn't know how to stop troll's regen (assuming there ever was a time, for me there wasn't) I can try to play the game from the PC's perspective.
In fact a low level party should face only one troll,
And making focus fire on a single troll, regeneration won’t make a great difference,
A troll would be a hard threat for a party below level 5, even without regen.
Past level 5, the troll is an usual encounter.
Facing 2 or more trolls need a solid party who should know about troll regen.
And making focus fire on a single troll, regeneration won’t make a great difference,
A troll would be a hard threat for a party below level 5, even without regen.
Past level 5, the troll is an usual encounter.
Facing 2 or more trolls need a solid party who should know about troll regen.
I play with a table of players with ages ranging between their 30's and 50's each with decades of rpg expereince. They all have characters whom have dealt with trolls. The group even has a long standing legend around some Ravenloft werewoles that could only be hurt with gold weapons. Once in a while we have someone new with no role playing experience, but someone at the table will know. When running the game if we want the players to know what to do when encountering a Troll the person running the game says "You encounter a Troll". If not they describe the creature in less certain terms. For example, a "wart covered, green skinned creature with sharp teeth" could be a troll. Or maybe we spent time using less optimal weapons burning an orc with a bad skin condition.
As Sigourney Weaver once said "... nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure".
As Sigourney Weaver once said "... nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure".
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