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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 553465" data-attributes="member: 2201">Trolls - Loved the description of one from "Two Hearts and Two Lions"; also thought the RuneQuest version was fantastic.  I like the troll encounters I run to have personality in addition to a good fight.The party sees a large warty-skinned creature sitting next to a small ditch sliced across the road; there is a board placed over the ditch.The creature snarls, "Five coppers toll to cross bridge." That encounter lasted for more than a year since the party thought it was funny, they just paid to go by. Intelligent magic items, especially weapons.  Once gave a cursed intelligent sword out; it had the mission to defeat fighters.  It also had Heal once a day so it was quickly selected.  The ranger who got it eventually got overconfident with having Heal at his call and decided to take on a stirge nest with only a wardog and a wolf he was training along with him.  Soon into the battle he realized the animals were likely to get slaughtered so he cleared them of stirges and sent them away.  By this time, he was just past half his hits and asked the sword for a Heal.  It said, "No."  The shocked expression on the player's face was priceless; he fought on and asked it, "Why not?"  The sword replied, "Because that wouldn't be heroic."  The fight got a lot more intense for the player after that! He won with just a couple of hits left but it was close.Stirges are a great little beasty, also.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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