The Tarrasque

[Jack Simth]

I suspect the main reason people don't make troll characters is the level hit - it costs 11 levels to have a troll character; 6 for Hit Dice, 5 for Level Adjustment. Expensive for a walking larder. A straight cleric or wizard has level 6 spells available with the minimum to play a troll. At that point, the a straight Cleric can easily cast Create Food and Water to feed the party, and the Wizard can use Prestidigitation to make it flavorful. Likewise, a Sustaining Spoon and a Wizard with Prestidigitation can feed the party fairly readily.

 

[RandomPrecision]

Of course - Cleric and Wizard feeding is what everyone does...why not do something memorable? Like play the party's edible troll?

The problem that I'm seeing is that trolls are always very hungry (high metabolism -> regeneration), so I might end up eating as much as the party would have anyway.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

I vaguely remember reading something somewhere about a game trolls like to play.

They grapple with each other, trying to tear each other's heads off. The winner is the one who rips his opponent's head off first and throws it as far away as he can. The looser has to sit and wait until his head grows back.....

I probably read that in a Dragon mag back in 2e or something.. sounds kinda silly if you ask me...

 

[the Jester]

I vaguely remember reading something somewhere about a game trolls like to play.

They grapple with each other, trying to tear each other's heads off. The winner is the one who rips his opponent's head off first and throws it as far away as he can. The looser has to sit and wait until his head grows back.....

I probably read that in a Dragon mag back in 2e or something.. sounds kinda silly if you ask me...

Omfg, I'm so using this as a scene in my game one of these days.

 

[Rkhet]

Ah, but why does the body grow a head, and the head doesn't grow a body?