Troll Regeneration Thread

[Ashakyre]

I'm glad to see this thread recusitate itself.

[Simlasa]

Perhaps they could favor places with cliffs or rivers because if they start to be defeated, they could cast themselves off a cliff or into a river and be relatively sure of eventual survival, unlike what tends to happen if they're just lying on the floor with a bunch of humans with a source of fire.

That's why many of them live under bridges.

[AsenRG]

I think regeneration is both interesting and difficult to do in a way that satisfies my desire for things to make sense and also withstand clever players. Trolls were an early example for me where I saw people getting into discussions such as:

A: "What happens if you cut a troll up into tiny pieces and separate them over great distances? ... bury the pieces? ... keep cutting them up as they regenerate?"
B: "Well the rules say they keep gaining hit points, so I guess even if there's only one little toe left, it keeps regrowing forever at that rate..."

So I tend to want to detail the mechanics, and prefer them making sense and seeming plausible to being difficult to overcome. The result has been that my trolls almost always die and only really enjoy a brief amount of extra toughness due to healing during combat.

In our DCC game, the Referee had a giant who was afraid of the sun and regenerated, but fire didn't prevent that. It turned out that he was regenerating from the heart out, so when we pulled the nearly undestructible heart out, the body stopped being a problem.

Then we boiled it in a big bucket until the sun rose, periodically cutting off the excess growing meat. Our priestess ate it, and since she was serving a Chtulhoid anyway, nobody was even mightily surprised:D!
And then the sun rose and destroyed the heart.

In other campaigns it might not be the heart, or all parts might be regenerating, but all such creatures should have a weakness;).

[soltakss]

I'm glad to see this thread recusitate itself.

It regenerated ...

[Ratman_tf]

It regenerated ...

[Tristram Evans]

Jesus wept.

Someone's been playing in a VR machine too long

[video=youtube;z4FGzE4endQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4FGzE4endQ[/youtube]

[Christopher Brady]

Jesus wept.

What?  It's no longer the hobby you knew, how is this surprising?

[Crawford Tillinghast]

"Dad, what was the name of that band Paul McCartney was in before Wings?"

Dad, What's "Wings"?

[Tristram Evans]

Dad, What's "Wings"?

It was that sitcom with Monk and The Sandman, right?

[Elfdart]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!  I'm old!

I think I officially hit Old Fart status sometime last year as I did a double-take when one of the young punks at work referred to Kate Winslet as a MILF.

[Crawford Tillinghast]

It was that sitcom with Monk and The Sandman, right?

Must have been.  

[ZWEIHÄNDER]

Isn't troll regeneration when someone gets banned from The Big Purple and creates an account at TheRPGSite?

[crkrueger]

Isn't troll regeneration when someone gets banned from The Big Purple and creates an account at TheRPGSite?

Heh, you're like one post away from a permaban over there yourself.

[ZWEIHÄNDER]

Heh, you're like one post away from a permaban over there yourself.

I've learned a few things over at The Big Purple:

* don't post anything remotely related to ZWEIHÄNDER in any forum - even if other people are asking me about it;
* don't post anything remotely related to ZWEIHÄNDER outside of the Hype Machine, despite having the largest amount of views and replies ever made at RPG.net;
* don't post April Fool's jokes;
* don't post, period.

[Christopher Brady]

Well, this thread went sideways fast.