Keeping trolls dead?

[HellHound]

Gez, since when did the spelling police start recruiting again?



(Only saying this because you beat me to the post)

 

[Caliban]

You can't make a coup de gras with an a flaming or acidic weapon. Both fire and acid would destroy grease rather than generating it. Since grease is inflammable, though, you could make a Coup de Flamme using an oleaginous weapon. You just have to provide the spark.

You're right on the other points of your post, though.

Why would I want a cup of grass, much less set it on fire?

 

[Greatwyrm]

If we can't overcome DR and/or regeneration, we usually use a combination of grappling and choking things to death. If that doesn't work, we try running away.

 

[robberbaron]

Im my game Trolls are a bit like earthworms, in that they can regenerate from the smallest part. To kill one, you must do its body fire/lightning/acid damage equal to its hit points. Anything less than that leaves some cells capable of regeneration.

Haven't thought about Massive Damage as the most anyone has done so far is 26 points of damage, but I guess I will have to address it at some point.

As an aside, in an AD&D1 game some years ago, our party captured several Trolls and built a Troll-Press, to harvest blood from the continually regenerating creatures. It was needed for Healing potions and the Trolls were constantly taking enough damage to keep them unconscious.

 

[Thanee]

We just knock them way into unconsciousness and then light them up.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hypersmurf]

As an aside, in an AD&D1 game some years ago, our party captured several Trolls and built a Troll-Press, to harvest blood from the continually regenerating creatures. It was needed for Healing potions and the Trolls were constantly taking enough damage to keep them unconscious.

I saw a couple of nifty troll tricks in 1E.

I knew a dwarf fighter who carried a Leg o' Troll around in his pack. Each night, he'd lop off a few steaks, and sear the end...

Then there was the party who opened up the sealed tomb, to find hundreds of carrion crawlers. They killed them all off eventually, made their way through the rest of the tomb, killed off a few undead, rested up overnight in a chamber... and nobody ever asked "So what did those carrion crawlers eat?"

And while they were resting up, the half-dozen trolls who, for some years, had been constantly paralyzed by the dozens of carrion crawlers wandering around and grazing on their constantly-regenerating flesh, found themselves able to move for a change...

(It wouldn't work in 3E... the trolls would've died of starvation in the mean time...)

-Hyp.