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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GuyBoy" data-source="post: 8375889" data-attributes="member: 7031143">[ATTACH=full]142310[/ATTACH]So, I was Grognarding-out on Lost Minis Wiki and this THING popped up to torment me. It’s a “small troll” by UK company Minifigs and dates from around 1975/76.....and I remember it with loathing. Not because it’s a bad figure (though it is) and not because whoever heard of small trolls, but because this figure was the monster that killed my first ever D&D character. I was 14 and it still hurts. Dave, my first DM, was a year older and was running my fighter, Aelric ( 1066 history study meets Melnibone) and Phil’s wizard, Amroth (Tolkien meets, er, Tolkien) and we were level one. Aelric has 7hp, Amroth had 2, but he had a sleep spell. We were doing just fine. We’d killed a giant rat and would have taken its stuff if it had had any. Then we met the troll....DM Dave had this figure, painted quite well, and he kept it along with a few fellows, wrapped up in loo paper in an old cigar box. So we fought this tobacco-scented troll in a 20’ x 20’ room, with a treasure chest in view. Not that we ever opened the chest: Amroth’s sleep spell didn’t work, the troll ripped him to shreds. Aelric hit the troll. The troll regenerated the damage. The troll ripped Aelric to shreds. I was hooked. Still am. Dave went on to work in IT in the US. Phil became a professor at Cambridge. And I still hate this figure. And trolls. Especially ones that smell of tobacco.</blockquote>

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