04-25-2019, 05:43 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
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Come to think of it, though, in games with younger children, I've used Trolls of the "Three Billygoats Gruff" variety. Big monsters under bridges (or near other important portals) who need to be outsmarted rather than killed. |
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04-25-2019, 07:59 PM | #12 |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
Not my game but apparently* in GURPS Lunal Trolls are beautiful ubermensch with a very evil heart. I wonder why they decided to use the name "Troll" for them.
*I only know from what I've read on the wiki and some internet pages because I don't have the books. I hear Lunal, Yuel, Sorcery Knight Academy and Hyakki Yakou are pretty nice settings for GURPS, is there no possibility SJG could make it available for western audience? |
04-26-2019, 10:21 AM | #13 |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
I learned about trolls from the Billie Goats Gruff and further filled in the idea of them from D&D. I like the misshapen semi-sentient monsters about twice the size of a man with long arms, vulnerable to fire and not much else. I've given them strange folklore in some games like you can trap one by making it look at it's reflection effectively mentally-stunning an idiot. I've made them phobic of cats.
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04-26-2019, 11:17 AM | #14 |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
My primary inspirations are Tolkien and bridge trolls. They got to me first. If you made me pick a difference between my ogres and my trolls I'd have to admit there is not much of one, but I'd be able to say the following:
Of course, I often build the monster first and then go hunting for a name. I've got one setting where trolls are very much regenerating animalistic monsters whose regeneration relies on body temperature (but is more complicated than just "fire"). I had them mostly built before I thought "Oh wow, these are essentially trolls"!
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04-26-2019, 02:55 PM | #15 |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
As a very loose rule, I tend to think of ogres as monstrous humans, and trolls as monstrous ogres.
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04-26-2019, 03:10 PM | #16 |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
I've tended to fall more upon the Warhammer Fantasy style of trolls and Ogres.
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04-26-2019, 06:24 PM | #17 |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
In my fantasy world system, I relied on using the world of warcraft style of trolls.
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04-26-2019, 07:19 PM | #18 | |
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Re: Trolls [Fantasy]
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A Troll would be a natural creature with natural powers; tall, broad, heavy, horned and tusked, long pale hair, dark eyes, gray skin; comprised of avuncular raiding clans, with a preference for coasts, mountains, caves, stone ships that travel sea and sky, dark cloth and colorful leathers. Known for their metalwork, multi-tonal voices and extended longevity; madness runs in their blood. Slave-takers and slave-keepers. Relatively few in number. |
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