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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grover Cleaveland" data-source="post: 2631679" data-attributes="member: 34932">He may figure it out, but he won't know why. All the dwarf knows is that some creatures are more like the giants he was trained to fight than others. That's what the DM should tell the player - although the creature resembles a troll in most respects, it is untroll-like in the way it fights, and your traditional dwarven combat skills are of less use. If war trolls are uncommon in the campaign, it's reasonable that the PC won't know this in advance (that is, the DC on the character's knowledge check may be very high). The idea that a character is going to divide monsters into types systematically, and that this division is always going to be accurate and predictable, is silly. It's good if there are creatures who go against type - it makes things more realistic, and discourages metagaming.</blockquote>