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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akr71" data-source="post: 7810669" data-attributes="member: 6801213">Yes. If the player gives me a reasonable explanation on why they might know that fire works on trolls - or any monster lore - I'll go with it. Even if it is a quasi-reasonable explanation, I'll likely give them a role to see if they remember it in the heat of battle. The player is attempting to roll play and that's good enough for me.I tend to use a History skill check or just a general Intelligence check for recalling knowledge.In my games, the average new character knows very little of the savage wilderness except that it is dangerous and filled with horrible monsters. I mean orcs and goblinoids are common enough and everybody has likely heard of giants and dragons. A commoner probably doesn't know the difference between an ogre and a troll - and the bards that sung that tale probably thought one sounded better than the other in the song.</blockquote>