Is there such a thing as an undead troll???

[Deset Gled]

that's... oxymoronic. Or just moronic.

And the term "undead" isn't?

 

[DreamChaser]

And the term "undead" isn't?

not in the slightest. all "undead" says is that they aren't dead in the strict definition of the word.

living undead is contradictory however....not that that's a problem really. it is the mark of a great mind to be able hold contradictory ideas within it without flinching.

DC

 

[Ferret]

I was thinking about this the other day. In that a troll keeps regenerating until its body has been consumed by flame or acid, would any circumstances yield an undead troll?

Not if your lucky.

 

[sfedi]

With a friend of mine we made a Living Undead template too.

It was for some Drug induced persons, like Living Zombies and such.

 

[Thanee]

living undead is contradictory however...

A philosopher might argue, that raising/resurrecting a dead person puts them into a state of living undeath. It's certainly not natural.

I'm not a philosopher.

Bye
Thanee

 

[TheGogmagog]

Would there be a way for a troll to become undead and retain it's regeneration? I was thinking of str drain from wraiths, but it then becomes a wraith, not a troll-wraith. Animate dead would do the same, it makes it a 'mundane' skeleton or zombie, without keeping any traits from when it was a living creature.

 

[Pebele]

Would there be a way for a troll to become undead and retain it's regeneration? I was thinking of str drain from wraiths, but it then becomes a wraith, not a troll-wraith. Animate dead would do the same, it makes it a 'mundane' skeleton or zombie, without keeping any traits from when it was a living creature.

Don't hold me to this, but I swear there was a vampire ogre mage in Libris Mortis, and it held onto it's regeneration ability.

 

[Mithran]

I don't see how that could be. As I remember it you must have a constitution score for the regeneration ability to function and vampires have no con score.

 

[Three_Haligonians]

Don't hold me to this, but I swear there was a vampire ogre mage in Libris Mortis, and it held onto it's regeneration ability.

This is true, it's a villain in one of the mini-adventures at the back of the book.

I don't see how that could be. As I remember it you must have a constitution score for the regeneration ability to function and vampires have no con score.

This is also true! As far as I can tell, the vampire ogre mage special abilities were just cut and pasted from its two sources, the vampire and the ogre mage.

I'm pretty sure that the Undead type and the Regeneration ability are mutually exclusive.

J from Three Haligonians

 

[Mithran]

That seems like a pretty big mistake. I don't think it's actually the undead type that does it, it's just their tendency to not have a con score.