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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6007649" data-attributes="member: 42582">In his <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20120904" target="_blank">recent column on trolls</a>, James Wyatt says this:Incidentally, the ability of severed parts to attack has always been true of trolls in the game, but it has been hard to model in the rules. For example, the 2nd Edition AD&D Monstrous Manual said that a natural 20 with an edged weapon would sever a limb. I think this is best left to the DM’s description: when you’re using an edged weapon while fighting a troll, the DM might describe how you lop off an arm—but the arm keeps fighting, without hindering the troll’s combat ability at all.What is the general view of this free narration approach to severing trolls' limbs? I would expect it to be a bit controversial, but may be not.</blockquote>