All genuine people are old, bitter, and flame -happy. Ergo, anyone young or polite is a troll. Didn’t you know that?

–signed, usenetGPT

Hey! You’ve just given me a d&d world-building idea…

Your party comes to two bridges, under one of which is a civil servant, and under the other, a troll.

“I have a polite conversation with the troll and ask him to let us pass”

he lets you pass