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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 2716799" data-attributes="member: 31301">Here's a better way to think about it. In a world with not much in the way of magical items (and I guess not a lot of magic in general either?), the best you can hope to do when fighting a troll is to beat it to the point it's unconscious, and then coup de grace it with fire. Even a torch would probably do at that point. So, maybe your expectation should be that the party is going to pummel it with non-flaming weapons until it is unconscious, then coat a blade with pitch, light it and coup de grace the thing. Course, make sure that your party has an idea that this is the appropriate tactic.I once had a party that fought a crystalline troll until it got knocked out from subdual damage, and then they had to sit there and beat it while someone went back to the nearbye city to buy a scroll that would allow them to cast a spell that dealt sonic damage to coup de grace it. T'was very funny.</blockquote>