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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8061779" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I actually don’t disagree with this. “I think back to the stories Uncle Trollsbane used to tell me to try and remember if there’s a trick to killing them” is an adjudicatable action, and a good way to try and verify any suspicions you might have about troll weaknesses. I just don’t see any support in the rules for the idea that the player must declare such an action as a prerequisite to attacking a troll with fire or acid. Not that such a requirement can’t or shouldn’t be added as a table rule. Just that I don’t see support for it in the game rules.I think that’s something the DM should probably hash out with the players. Personally,  if a player said, “I remember my uncle telling me trolls are weak to fire,” without first making a declaration of action to verify that trolls are weak to fire, I’d take that as them establishing that their uncle may not be a reliable source of information. Maybe he was right. Maybe he was telling tall tales. Or maybe your memory is  flawed. You can say you remember your uncle saying trolls are weak to fire, but as long as that information is coming from the player’s own head and not from the DM, it’s a risk to assume it’s accurate, because it might well not be.</blockquote>