Trolls

[tleilaxu]

So what are trolls like in your campaign? Are they green with long noses? Do they speak in cockney accents and turn to stone int he daylight? Do they live under bridges? Are they made out of stone with diamonds for teeth?

 

[Liquide]

My trolls mostly resemble the Norse Mythos Trolls which are closely related to Jutons (Giants and Beastmen).

Think great Hulking beast of immense physical strength but a lil slow in the head, simple-minded a bit childish but immensly strong and as huge as a normal dnd giant.

The Troll in FotR movie is quite close to what Norse trolls look like according to myths.

 

[hong]

Exactly what they look like in the PHB.


Hong "Austrian accent and all" Ooi

 

[tabrumj]

Pure MM in my campaign.

 

[Decado]

I use different styles of trolls in my campaign. I use the Reaper troll minis for my standard troll and the LOTR troll mini for my cave trolls. The cave trolls in my campaign are giants.

In the 3e game I ran today the party's monk was killed by a troll. He attempted to jump across the troll on to a stack of sacks filled wirth wheat. With a ring of jumping this character has a +40 jump skill so he figured, and I agreed, that he was going to make it no problem. As pretty much a formality I had him roll a skill check anyway and lo and behold he rolls a 1! On his lucky critical die of all dice! The troll caught him in one hand and after a few rounds of rendering attacks, and several failed attempts to break free of the troll's grasp, the monk lay on the deck of the barge in two bloody pieces.

The players, who I thought would be upset over this turn of events, were actually so impressed with the visual image that I described they were not upset at all.

Decado

 

[caudor]

I also use the MM troll as listed, however; I just can't do a convincing Austrian accent....so I have them all stutter instead.

 

[maddman75]

Trolls in my game are quite a bit different than the MM standard. They look like innocent youths who will go up to a group of heros and start asking innocent sounding questions like

"Is it wrong for an elf paladin to kill and orc baby?"
"Is the ranger too frontloaded?"
"Should harm get a save?"

Once the character begin argueing, he will repeat what they have said randomly inserting the word 'wanger'. He then runs off giggling to himself.

Unfortunately, this has led the group to start fireballing every innocent looking youth they see.

 

[Creamsteak]

Oh, those kind of Trolls.


There are 32+ types of trolls in my games. Half-Trolls, Green Trolls, Civilized Trolls, Monkey-Fisted Trolls, Night Trolls (CR17+), Great Trolls, Mind Trolls (Psionic version), Undead Trolls, Trolls of every Templated Variety, The coveted Mai-Mai Skuuper Troll, Hanz and Franz the flamboiyant Trolls, and a few dozen others.

I could probably do a short 50 pager pdf on all the trolls in my game.

 

[Tonguez]

Trolls in my game are male 'hags' and all Fiends - long-limbed long-taloned long-fanged multijointed hi-speed killing machines that look like a cross between the Alien Queen, a Gorilla and the Huncback of Notre Dame

 

[Calan Orccrusher]

HEHEHE

In the 3e game I ran today the party's monk was killed by a troll. He attempted to jump across the troll on to a stack of sacks filled wirth wheat. With a ring of jumping this character has a +40 jump skill so he figured, and I agreed, that he was going to make it no problem. As pretty much a formality I had him roll a skill check anyway and lo and behold he rolls a 1! On his lucky critical die of all dice! The troll caught him in one hand and after a few rounds of rendering attacks, and several failed attempts to break free of the troll's grasp, the monk lay on the deck of the barge in two bloody pieces.



Decado

I resemble this remark, I t was very well done. The monk just got his but handed to him, and the player (ME) was a bit surprised a the turn of evens but it worked out ok. The scene was played out very well and the dice just got me.