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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7579090" data-attributes="member: 23751">Perhaps in your other games, but not in D&D.  In D&D the DM absolutely has the authority to rule that the PC does not know about trolls.  The following is from 4e on backgrounds.  Note how it puts what information the PC knows due to his background in the hands of the DM, not the player."Invent situations where their backgrounds are useful. Let the character who was raised by a blacksmith charm some important information out of the baroness’s blacksmith—or notice an important fact about how a metal lock was forged.Give the characters important information they know because of their past history, such as the location of a particular shrine or magical location that appears in the lore of their original homeland."In games, preclusion does not equate to inclusion.  In D&D if the game doesn't explicitly give the player an ability to do something, the player does not have that ability unless the DM grants it.There is.  I just quoted it above.  The DM decides what information the PC knows due to his backstory.  It's 4e RAW.That's because you don't get my playstyle.  That's okay.  Everyone is entitled to enjoy their own favorite playstyles and we aren't required to understand the playstyles of others.  You've repeatedly demonstrated that lack of understanding in the various threads here.  It's why you get what my playstyle is about wrong so often.Monster weaknesses aren't a puzzle to solve.  They exist to give the PC an advantage if the PC can find out about them and then take advantage of them.  So now you're claiming that the very definition of metagaming is not metagaming?And here you are again demonstrating that you do not understand the playstyle.  Nobody is forcing a player to alienate himself from his character.  There is no alienation at all.</blockquote>

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