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Sounds like a bitch problem
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In my experience, knowledge checks are for "My character has a high int stat and I can't be bothered to think about this puzzle, solve it for me".Ah. We tend to give players a DC to beat (usually 10+HD), with success giving you the description blurb in the MM and the accurate answer to one question (typically: vulnerability, best/worst save, special ability). Extra questions for every 5 above the DC. So a Wizard or Bard or equivalent typically knows that trolls are weak against fire and illithids eat your brains. A low skill/int character will struggle to recall anything useful.
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Those are both great examples of why a character might try to throw anti-troll paste (tar) at trolls. ::: spoiler spoiler A red cape doesn't mean anything different than a black cape to a bull, and sucking venom from a snakebite isn't a thing outside of movies. It won't hurt, but it won't do much good either. One myth that *will* cause damage is putting ice on a pit viper bite though, so remember to avoid doing that. :::Huh, TIL on the snakebite thing. I was pulling that from an old boy scout manual, just remember something about cutting the wound site first. The red of the cape setting off a bull is a myth, sure; but you still don't want to wave *any* capes around in front of a pissed off bull! I'll stand by how I phrased that claim
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Funny that you use those examples, since they're both wrong. If anything, we should be running at the trolls with stinky socks because someone wanted to sound smart at a bar once and made up a factoid that spread like wildfire among the common folk.
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if your headed to a place called troll canyon you should probably do some research on what trolls are weak to beforehand"Don't worry, it's just a name!" Gets attacked by trolls. "I thought it was just a name!"
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I feel like trolls are common enough that even a farmer would know they don't like fire or acid.Trolls are only common if they're made common, though. Like, they're common in the Forgotten Realms, or Golarion, or whatever, but commonality is out the window in a homebrew setting.
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I never said it wasn't derogatory, and yes actually, acknowledging that different ways to play the game are fine does absolutely make it okay. "Tell me ahead of time and I won't play at your table" "You won't catch me doing that" ya bro they want to play the game the way they have fun and not force themselves to play it a way they don't enjoy for the benefit of others. And instead of letting that be, you have to whine and okay the victim.
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So you read that entire message and you only boiled it all down to that one single response despite going on forever about your own problems? Zero allowance of criticism against you, but all of the criticism against everything else? Sounds familiar. Yeah, the last paragraph I wrote in that other message? Yeah, that seems to be way more relevant to this now than I thought it was initially. Have a good day.ok, I was being unfair with my single line response. I'll go back, re read it, and actually give a proper response. --- I've come to the conclusion that you and I look for very different things in a tabletop rpg. Something of a spectrum, if you will, on one end is maximally role-play and on the other end is maximally game. Everyone's preference is going to be at some point between those two extremes. You lean more towards the roleplay, I lean more towards game. We would not have a good time if we were at the same table, and despite my enjoyment of making fun of playstyles other than my preferred, your table has every right to exist and do things how you want to and my opinion doesn't matter to that.
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Are you the original commenter's PR agent or something? The original comment is literally whining and playing the victim...
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No, the conversation did not start out with you being effectively called a bitch. A meme was posted that you decided to take incredibly seriously and incredibly personally. But you are 100% being an ass.I think I may have responded to the wrong comment with that one, as someone was misrepresenting something I said and my intent was to point out how misrepresenting a statement is bad by misrepresenting another statement. I'm honestly having a hard time finding the comment that I intended to respond to.
