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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CuriousBard" data-source="post: 116371" data-attributes="member: 1923">My players tried to behead a troll after knocking it out with subdual........but they found they couldn't.First of all there was no clear, defined (or exposed) neck.  The monster was pretty much a hulking head atop hulking shoulders.  Plus with all the knotted muscles and cordy bulk that made up the troll's body, they couldn't successfully hack through a space sufficient to cut off the head with one, clean swing.  This meant trying to saw through it.  But they found that by the time they had gotten through a good portion of the neck, the place where they had started was already sending out filaments and reknitting back together as the creature regenerated.Simply put, there was no way to behead the troll.</blockquote>