Trolls on 03/12/2013 05:13 AM CDT
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Can a GM comment whether trolls are a related group of creatures, or just random nasties that someone slapped "troll" on?

It seems like most of the have some strange natural aspect to them, as evidenced by their deaths.



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Re: Trolls on 03/12/2013 08:53 AM CDT
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>Can a GM comment whether trolls are a related group of creatures, or just random nasties that someone slapped "troll" on?

>It seems like most of the have some strange natural aspect to them, as evidenced by their deaths.

Ucu died?
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Re: Trolls on 03/12/2013 09:00 AM CDT
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Ucu isn't a troll so much as he just tells people when they're being stupid and people don't like to hear that.
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Re: Trolls on 03/12/2013 11:43 AM CDT
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I assume that they are some type of related group of creatures. Not only because of the natural aspects that their deaths tend to show (as you pointed out) but there is also the "Troll slayer" axe you can get from Kanton's. That makes it feel more like it is a specific group and not just some random group that happened to ended up being called trolls.
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Re: Trolls on 03/12/2013 09:05 PM CDT
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>but there is also the "Troll slayer" axe you can get from Kanton's. That makes it feel more like it is a specific group and not just some random group that happened to ended up being called trolls.

Good point. I'd forgotten about that.



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Re: Trolls on 03/13/2013 09:54 AM CDT
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Troll is a class of critter just like gremlin, leucro, gryphon, etc.

Mind you, I don't know how it works on the back end. Things like the troll slayer may just care if the noun of the thing you're targeting says 'troll'. There might not be some racial widget explicitly attached to the critter.



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Re: Trolls on 03/13/2013 10:41 AM CDT
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And here I thought it was someone that just kept posting things on the boards in MANY MANY topics and VERY VERY often. Or does this only count if the posts are all negative and hostile??

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Re: Trolls on 03/13/2013 10:45 AM CDT
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Neither makes a person a troll.

>http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

Note the 'primary purpose' description.

Technically YOU are trolling right now.


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