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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6957664" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>In addition to what AaronOfBarbaria says about the MC's origin for Thouls, none of the core B/X books ever had anything more than that. The assumption is some wizard somewhere decided it would be fun to merge a Troll, a Hobgoblin and a Ghoul and therefore Thouls. My assumption has always been that Thouls can breed with Hobgoblins and they just occasionally are born into Hobgoblin clans. And when they do they tend to take over the whole group quickly (I like to throw a Thoul into the mix every now and again to keep my PCs on their toes).</p><p></p><p>IIRC there's an off-hand reference in the history section of one of the Mystara Gazetteers that says that Thouls were an experiment from some Nithian wizards to create a race of servants. I don't remember which one had that bit of info - who knows, I might be hallucinating it in my old age. I'll need to go look for it the next time I'm near my books. Those wacky Nithian wizards were always doing that - they also managed to accidentally create Mystara's Gnolls in a similar attempt to make a slave race.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 6957664, member: 19857"] In addition to what AaronOfBarbaria says about the MC's origin for Thouls, none of the core B/X books ever had anything more than that. The assumption is some wizard somewhere decided it would be fun to merge a Troll, a Hobgoblin and a Ghoul and therefore Thouls. My assumption has always been that Thouls can breed with Hobgoblins and they just occasionally are born into Hobgoblin clans. And when they do they tend to take over the whole group quickly (I like to throw a Thoul into the mix every now and again to keep my PCs on their toes). IIRC there's an off-hand reference in the history section of one of the Mystara Gazetteers that says that Thouls were an experiment from some Nithian wizards to create a race of servants. I don't remember which one had that bit of info - who knows, I might be hallucinating it in my old age. I'll need to go look for it the next time I'm near my books. Those wacky Nithian wizards were always doing that - they also managed to accidentally create Mystara's Gnolls in a similar attempt to make a slave race. [/QUOTE]
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