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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3220938" data-attributes="member: 2810">Depends.  This one comes up a lot.  For relatively green adventurers I see it as:1.  Asking to make a K:Nature check to identify the creature as a 'troll' by virtue of its appearance.  Just because you know that trolls are susceptible to fire doesn't mean you'd recognize one for what it was, especially the first time.  Consider how many things the word 'troll' (or 'goblin' or 'elf') can describe in common usage.  Now, if a troll had been eating people from his village for years, I might handwave this.2.  Asking to make a K:Nature check to know that trolls are susceptible to fire.  If they've already positively identified it as a 'troll', or seen some in-game clue (eg it picks up its severed hand and it re-attaches), then that's perfectly permissible.  3.  Automatically assuming they know its a troll by description despite the characters having no previous exposure and breaking out the acid flasks and torches on-sight is over the line.  At least humor me and go through the motions for a couple rounds before you 'miraculously' figure out how to kill it.4.  If the guy's interrupting someone else's turn to say 'Let me make a K:Nature check so I can tell Player X that its a troll and to use her acid dagger instead of her frost sword'  is way over the line.  Wait till your own turn, make whatever checks I permit you to make, and then you can tell the other players what you've figured out.</blockquote>

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