Trolls come in many shapes and sizes but are united by a ravenous hunger, exceptional healing capacities, a dislike of thunder/bells/fire, and a tendency to turn to stone.

 

D2 Does the sun turn them to stone?

  1. Yes, but they get better
  2. Yes, and that’s the origin of many rocky geographical features

 

D4 Base Shape

  1. Human-like
  2. Orangutan-like
  3. Toad-like
  4. Chaotic Tumorous Mass

D6 Size

  1. Pebble- Still at least as strong as a full grown human
  2. Rock
  3. Cobble (Assume this is about a large human/Andrew the Giant size)
  4. Boulder
  5. Hill
  6. Mountain

D8 Special Craving— All Trolls are indiscriminate omnivores but they have preferences

  1. The Flesh of Sapient Bipeds
    1. Of a specific species/race
    2. Of a specific religious background
    3. Of a specific age group
    4. Of a specific nationality
    5. Of a specific family/clan (usually due to a curse on the family and/or the troll)
    6. Of a specific emotional state (fear is extra salty, loving extra sweet, anger is bitter etc)
  2. Fish— many trolls are actually very proficient fishers
  3. Anything Pickled/Fermented–their lair is absolutely crowded with jars and pots
  4. Sweets— They’ve eaten three entire gingerbread witch houses this week!
  5. Rocks
    1. Igneous
    2. Sedimentary
    3. Metamorphic
    4. Primal
    5. Crystalline/Gems
    6. Metallic Ores
  6. Goats— foolishly they really believe the bigger the tastier
  7. Alcohol
    1. Beer
    2. Mead
    3. Wine-quantity over quality 
    4. Very hard ciders (Applejack)
    5. Their own homemade moonshine (the sort of stuff that put Rip Van Winkle out) 
    6. Naturally fermenting fruit
  8. Absolutely indiscriminate— if it fits it its mouth, it is going into the mouth 

The Princess and the Trolls

D10 Common Troll Powers

  1. Yaulp– A scream that can be heard for miles, good for bursting eardrums and alerting the kinfolk
  2. Incredible Sense of Smell- On par with a bloodhound
  3. Stone Speak– They can speak with rocks, very very slowly
  4. Stone Shape– They can shape any sort of rock with the ease of shaping clay.
  5. Incredible Strength– several times stronger than an equally large one of their kin
  6. Witchcraft– This troll knows a bit of witchcraft, enough to brew some potions or cast minor curses
  7. Nature Magic- This troll has some limited control over the elements, capable of calling up localized storms or tremors
  8. Transformation– This troll can take on a singular much more human shape, but they often have some sort of tell like a tail or strange proportions
  9. Craftsmanship– This troll is supernaturally talented in some specific craft, either capable of crafting the objects at incredible speed or or magical quality. They are, however, very stingy and lazy and will require adequate motivation. 
  10. Roll Twice

 

D10 Regenerative Powers

  1. Non-Regenerative– This troll is incapable of regeneration but makes up for it by being incredibly hard and dense.
  2. Human Regeneration– This troll bleeds and heals just as a human would
  3. Basic Regeneration– Fleshwounds seal in minutes, broken bones knit in hours etc.
  4. Significant Regeneration– A severed limb held to the stump will rejoin, fleshwounds seal in seconds.
  5. Insane Regeneration– Non-cauterized wounds heal before an attack is even completed, severed limbs may grow into new trolls, they can survive without a head until they starve.
  6. Calorie-Based Regeneration– Any amount of damage can be regenerated by consuming an amount of food equal in weight to the lost mass.
  7. Scabby Regeneration– Fleshwounds seal into dense armor-like scabs within seconds. The scabs can eventually restrict their moment but naturally fall off within a day.
  8. Modular Regeneration– Bloodless, this troll can remove, swap, and reattach its extremities without trouble even grafting bits off of other creatures. They cannot naturally regenerate though.
  9. Mutative Regeneration– as Significant Regeneration but regenerated flesh possesses a random horrific mutation
  10. Nigh-Immortal Regeneration– This troll can regenerate from a few skin cells given time, it needs to be absolutely annihilated to stop its regeneration.

Sicken liten puttefnasker!

 

D12 Common Phenotypes

  1. Multiple Heads (2d6 exploding)
  2. Hollow Back
  3. Thin wasted appearance due to hyperdrive metabolism
  4. Bulky and heavyset
  5. Exceptionally hairy, like Bigfoot or Great Uncle Edgar
  6. Warty, flesh tags, nodules, cysts and more
  7. Oversized nose for their face
  8. Scaly lizard-like skin
  9. Boar-like tusks
  10. Exceptionally human
  11. A tail
    1. Thin with a wispy tuft of fur at the tip
    2. Thick and shaggy
    3. Muscular and scaled
    4. Whip-like and pointed
    5. Forked and serrated
    6. Mutable, Erratic and grasping
  12. Roll twice

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D20 Preferred Environment— Trolls are extremely adaptable and will often change to adapt to a new environment within a generation.

  1. Arctic: Prone to thick layers of blubber and arctic camouflage, icicle-like teeth. Often possess a keener intellect than many other trolls as they claim the cold helps them think better.
  2. Badlands: Highly superstitious and continuously mobile, their environment offers few places to hide from the sun and little natural sustenance but they are expert scavengers. They claim many of the rocky spires in their homelands are great ancient trolls who’ve been punished or preserved for their deeds.
  3. Coastal: Master fishermen and boat crafters, often have horns and are penultimate coastal raiders. Both sexes grow long beards that they often use in place of clothing.
  4. Desert: Ruddy/Sandy complexions, exceptional night vision, spends most of the day buried and can dry out and rehydrate like a frog during exceptional droughts
  5. Forest: Mottled green/brown skin, tends towards seasonal changes and adaptations such as food caches and hibernation
  6. Hills: Often have pronounced hunches, are capable of rolling into a ball for defensive or travel purposes. They are known to often take up refuge in barrows or to dig complex (confused) tunnels below their hilly homes.
  7. Jungle: Significantly longer, thinner claws for cutting through undergrowth, much more prone to being solitary and highly territorial to other trolls.
  8. Lakes/Rivers: Freshwater adaptations for swimming and digging burrows into banks, often have longer arms and exceptional grip strength– See Prowler Peg, Jenny Greenteeth, grindylow
  9. Mountains: Adapted feet or hooves for climbing/holding onto rock faces, often have a relationship with moss and lichen, most craggy/rock-like appearances
  10. Oceanic: Saltwater adaptations for swimming and surviving in open ocean, breathes water but capable of surviving out of water for short times, grows/loses teeth similar to sharks
  11. Plains: Extremely high stamina and capable of long distant pursuit over many days, often have leaner muscle compared to other trolls,  more prone than other trolls to form families or clans
  12. Rainforest: Adaptations for brachiation including dexterous feet and lengthed arms, tends towards being smaller than average but just as physically dense.
  13. Ruins: Often solitary and prone to being especially brooding and violent, outcasts among their kind. The most likely of trolls to wear armor and weird iron weapons. 
  14. Sewers: Vector for a wide variety of diseases they show symptoms for but are otherwise immune to, exceptional geo-spatial sense and memory essentially incapable of getting lost, often accumulate strange hoards of specific lost/thrown away items
  15. Subterranean: Blind but highly sensitive other senses, semi-transparent skin, slower metabolisms than other trolls–usually eats one extremely large meal and then goes into relative torpor for long periods
  16. Urban: “Civilized” trolls, tend towards being smaller and more gregarious with other species than other trolls but often retain features from their previous heritage. Roll again to determine heritage.
  17. Volcanic: Charred appearance and sulphuric smell, significantly more fire resistant than other trolls and have significantly weaker jaws due to much more of their diet being cooked. Volcanic trolls are known to become obsessed with a singular hyperfocus that they hone at the exclusion of nearly anything else.
  18. Wetlands: Semi-amphibious semi-crocodilian, tends towards mossy hair and 2 very wide weight displacing feet for traversing mud and bogs, much more acid resistant than standard trolls. 
  19. Extra-Dimensional: Comes from an adjacent plane such as the Ethereal or the Faelands, can slip into another dimension when they are not directly observed. Often have odd colorations and habits
  20. Weird
    1. Abyssal: Wanderers of the bottom of the ocean, covered in bioluminescent polyps  and built to withstand insane pressures. Their regenerative power keep them from dying if they rise to the surface but their bodies take on a non-newtonian state as it continuously tries to melt in the low pressure
    2. Radioactive Wastes: Almost universally mindless abhorrent beings driven mad with mutation and out of control cancers, a small few however unlock a zen-like existence as their bodies feed off and purify the radiation/pollution around them.  
    3. Lunar: Pale wide-eyed creatures whom gravity only has a tenuous hold on, the sun does not turn them to stone but in view of the moon they will float and stare enraptured with catatonic homesickness.
    4. Rot Lands: Possess a symbiotic or perhaps parasitic relationship with fungi as they are often covered in a variety of species in constant sporation. Preferential detritivores, preferring dead and decaying over fresher meals. Might be part of localized hiveminds 
    5. Star Beast Gravelands: Strangely elongated and profoundly slimy, rubbery bodies supported by complex and flexible cartilaginous skeletons, a mouth like something between a remora, a cookie cutter shark and an electric blender, they dive through and infest the gargantuan corpses making them meals and temporary homes at once. They learn strange secrets and terrible wisdom from consuming the brains of these Star-Beasts but only trade it at steep bizarre costs.
    6. Bridgetown: Trolls were possibly the first inhabitants of the Infinite Bridge that stretches across the empty spaces between Crystal Spheres–it was either them or the Gruffolk and they’re not agreeing who was first anytime soon. Squat and toad-like, the main unit of Bridgetown Trolls is a Union rather than a family and they enjoy pursuits such as sewer yodeling, protesting unfair work practices, and armwrestling goat-folk.

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D100 Quirk

  1. This troll’s upper body is massive compared to their tiny almost legs, they walk on their huge knuckles instead. 
  2. This troll’s lower body is massive compared to their frail and withered upper torso, their powerful leaps are akin to a sized up flea
  3. This troll lacks a mouth and instead has a massive nose, it stuffs food up its nostrils and communicates through nose-fluting
  4. This troll has a green thumb, literally, which can significantly enhance the growth of any flora it comes in contact with
  5. This troll has a black thumb, literally, which slowly petrifies anything it touches.
  6. This troll’s stomach is a natural fermenter–they’re always drunk and can spew high proof alcohol. Different diets may result in different alcohols.
  7. This troll reproduces by budding, dropping warty flesh nodules that grow into young trolls
  8. This troll can grow or shrink as will, going from a grain of sand to a giant in seconds
  9. This troll’s teeth are made of diamond and can bite through almost anything
  10. This troll is a curse eater, capable of devouring curses, spells, and sins. Unfortunately this requires them to bite the inflicted
  11. This troll can shapeshift into a traditionally beautiful example of an observer’s species/race/heritage. Until it strikes or is stricken. 
  12. This troll can willingly transform between flesh and stone at any time
  13. This troll can swim through the earth just as a fish swims in the sea
  14. This troll has a second stomach that is uses as a purse
  15. This troll practices a strict aesthetic lifestyle and self-cannibalizes to fulfill their endless hunger
  16. This troll is of fey heritage and is affected by cold iron in the same way other trolls are affected by fire and acid
  17. This troll has 12 other siblings, they normally stay out of sight but enjoy coming into civilization to cause a ruckus during holidays.
  18. This troll has an inordinate fondness for trinkets but has a terrible time keeping track of them in their lair. Their solution to this is to weave all of their collection into their long ragged hair.
  19. This troll is incredibly fond of one genre of music, but finds all others painful and rage-inducing to listen to. They also come in a rainbow variety of colors.
  20. This troll looks more like a friendly albino hippopotamus than any other troll you’ve seen 
  21. .This troll temporarily takes on the qualities of anything they’ve eaten, at least until it’s been digested..
  22. This Troll is half ogre, it’s already massive hunger intensified into an aura of starvation.
  23. This troll uses its own cast off flesh and bone to make necromantic constructs
  24. This troll divines the future from their own entrails
  25. This troll ate a bunch of seeds and now has an entire garden growing in their back, now all they want to eat is soil and sunlight.
  26. This troll is actually two trolls that were bifurcated vertically and stuck back together.
  27. This troll is actually two trolls that were bifurcated horizontally and stuck back together–like playing card Jack. Somewhere out there are two pairs of troll legs doing endless flips.
  28. This troll suffered a brain injury and now its brain is on a ceaseless regeneration, becoming bulbous and pulsating with unlocked psionic might.
  29. This troll has a Quato growing from their stomach.
  30. This troll fell into an industrial meat grinder and came out as a hundred mini-trolls sharing a single mind. If they eat one another they’ll slowly regain their original size.
  31. This troll was in a horrific bicycle accident and regenerated into something…something awful
  32. This is a cyclopean troll, its single eye connected to a hyper developed pineal gland powering its
    1. Hypnotic Stare
    2. LASER VISION
    3. Petrifying Gaze
    4. Intermittent headache inducing Future Sight
    5. 80 Billion Candella Spotlight Beams
    6. Constant vivid hallucinations 
  33. This troll continuously cycles through aging, death and rebirth daily.
  34. This troll is actually a corpse piloted by an awakened cordyceps fungus
  35. This is a primordial troll, one of the many millions that make up a compressed rocky strata from a time where most everything was troll. Their minds are alien and their goals bizarre.
  36. This troll came from a candy-based ecosystem and is itself made primarily from black licorice. Its hair is ropes of licorice, its teeth are sharpened candy corn and it can belch debilitating sour mist.
  37. This troll was the result of an adventuring eating undercooked troll steak and having their cells replaced with the trolls–only the adventurer was wearing full plate at the time and now the troll is trapped inside of the strained armor. They retain a mixture of the personality and memories of both the original troll and the adventurer.
  38. This troll got their mitts on a FORBIDDEN CHAINSAW and has replaced one of their arms with it, the flesh growing around and fusing into the terrible machine’s workings.
  39. While wandering hungrily through some anachronistic ruins, this troll swallowed a sub-critical demon-core. They can fire beams of blue cancer-light from their mouth and might explode like a minor Tunguska Event if jostled too much.
  40. Something went wrong with this troll’s regeneration, now
    1. They’re a head attached directly to a huge scuttling hand
    2. They didn’t grow back they bones, now their limbs stretch like rubber bands 
    3. They look like a sensory homunculus
    4. They’re facial features are scrambled–mouth on their forehead, eyes where their ears should be etc.
    5. They have radial symmetry and roll around on their limbs like BUER
    6. They’ve grown fractal hands on their hands giving them unparalleled grip strength 
  41. This is not a Troll but a Troll-hund or Troll Dog, everything a troll is but packaged like a mix between a Clydesdale, a basset hound and a mastiff. Might have the personality of a lapdog or Cujo.
  42. This troll has a metal plate in their head that is keeping them from regenerating all of their brain and memories. If the plate were removed they’ll remember
    1. That they’re the last master of a deadly martial art
    2. That they’re a living historical index of a lost civilization
    3. They’re actually a meat elemental tricked into this limited form
    4. They ate the key to an incredible treasure, another troll is out there who has the vault in their stomach
    5. The answer to life, the universe, everything.
    6. They have pretty severe depression 
  43. They can pick their nose once a day and retrieve one of the many many things they’ve stuffed up there.
  44. They are excessively argumentative, excessively uninformed, and absolutely certain in all of their opinions
  45. They have a cottagecore aesthetic 
  46. Ooops super-rabies.
  47. They’re really proud of their job working at an official toll bridge.
  48. A kid once tricked them out of all of their possessions through a trick involving cheese, a bowl with a hole, and a bunch of duplicity. 
  49. Their back is bristling with old swords that failed to permanently injure them, most are rusty trash now but at least one is magic
  50. They skinned a clown and is now wearing it, they are much, much larger out of the clown 
  51. They have a whole ecosystem of weird bugs living on them 
  52. This troll has just walked through What-ville and has stolen all of the Festivus decorations. Its body is pierced with 1d100 colorful spheres on hooks, 1d20 porcelain figurines, and 5d10 feet of blinking colored lights. 50/50 Chance of a red felt hat or a crystal star on top.
  53. This troll has dug deeply within itself and discovered something pure and beautiful. A 3000 carat diamond booger. They are extremely attached to it and cradle it like a baby.
  54. This troll has picked up a pebble. Not any pebble, this pebble was once a great boulder and over the centuries, the Troll has used it as a worrystone until it has become a tiny, smooth pebble of mirror-like reflection. This troll is the chillest troll around.
  55. This troll sat on a wizard and now has a STAFF OF POWER stuck up its bum, the magic crystal coming out the business end. They have exceptional posture and farts random spells.
  56. This troll just got really really high snorting a mess of golden scarab beetles they found under a long. Its face sparkles, it sneezes golden glittery, and it is speaking in koans
  57. This troll got knocked in the head by a huge metal saucer. After eating the weird gray inhabitants of the saucer, it drank all of the weird blue fluid in the saucer’s tank. The troll glows as brightly as the sun and undergoes a new mutation ever ten minutes. In 6 hours it will either become an ascended being of pure light or the ending scene from Akira.
  58. This troll carries its lair on its back. A diet high in metal and enchanted weapons has caused a great snail-like shell to slowly grow out of their back. Physics are thrown by the wayside inside of the shell, making it its own mini-dungeon. Goblins have infested the deeper reaches of the shell and have set up turrets on top.
  59. This troll lives in the skull of a True Titan. The titan is so large and so old that many assume its lichen, tree, and boulder covered head is a small mountain. It is only the troll’s constant eating at its prodigious brains that keep it asleep.
  60. This troll lives under a bridge. Under a bridge in a demilitarized zone. Under a bridge in a demilitarized zone that is surrounded with concussive mines. Under a bridge in a demilitarized zone that is surrounded with concussive mines and is the only way across the river. The troll demands you answer riddles, but the troll is permanently deaf from stepping on too many concussive mines.
  61. This troll knows dozens of riddles—but none of the answers
  62. This troll gained perfect pitch after regenerating from a head injury and is now a key member in the regional opera scene with aspirations for more.
  63. This troll got their head stuck in a magician’s top hat and wanders blindly about. They’re fine with it because there’s infinite rabbits to eat in there.
  64. This troll got into Wizard’s potion disposal bin and drank everything that was leftover, now they
    1. Glow
    2. Are incredibly erudite and sophisticated 
    3. Erupt into flame whenever they get stressed out
    4. Are inside out
    5. Spit octarine loogies 3x a day that create random magical effects (roll on your favorite spell table or wild magic table)
    6. Have an occultum bezoar in their stomach, incredibly valuable to any spellcaster.
  65. They rampage through a local vineyard yearly, which the farmers actually look forward to because the grapes they squash ferment into amazing wine.
  66. They are a notorious bank robber, they just eat their way through the walls.
  67. They spend the day as a statue outside of a library and spend the night reading.
  68. This trolls is a goat-herder but their goats are…a little strange.
  69. This troll makes a living being…”milked” for homunculi ingredients
  70. They have an ongoing and extremely petty argument with a local peasant. It is honestly surprised they just haven’t eaten the peasant yet.
  71. This troll has spent much of its life wandering through the Underground, and knows about many things in the ground.
  72. This troll has been adopted by a clan of goblins and has taken on some of their characteristics.
  73. This troll escaped from a laboratory after being cybernetically enhanced in a super-soldier program.
  74. This troll was taught the true meaning of love by their cryptid lover.
  75. This troll and three of its mates are in a band “wot ‘as rocks in it”
  76. This troll has had an unfortunate encounter with the Unreal and their regeneration powers won’t let them feel the sweet release of death.
  77. This isn’t a troll, but a tumor of Hungry Joe which gained its own sapience and escaped Hell.
  78. The sheer corruption and filth that infest this Troll has made them into a minor Avatar of The Orcus, their continuous regeneration and sloughing off of flesh leaving a trail of spreading corruption.
  79. They possess Bash You To Bits, one of the Eight Remain. The party was epic, the destruction horrific. 
  80. This trolls has glutted itself on Unicorn Meat, the strange toxins warping its flesh–its legs are equine, its hair replaced with a pearlescent mane, small helixed horns burst from its flesh like spikey buboes, rainbow ichor dribbles from his distended horse-like muzzle.
  81. This troll died weeks ago, but that hasn’t quite caught up with them yet. Their flesh no longer regenerates and all of their meals tumble out of the gaping hole in their stomach. If someone can reasonably convince them that they’re already dead (Omae Wa Mou Shinderiu”), they’ll shrug and topple over.
  82. This isn’t a troll, this is a Bigfoot.
  83. This troll is headless or rather, instead of a head, an appropriately large sword (a machete for the smallest, a skyscraping blade for the largest) is jammed into their neckhole. This is a Swerda war criminal.
  84. This troll was encouraged to take up a hobby instead of rampaging across the countryside. They’re now an artist of…dubious taste.
  85. This troll recently ate a party of 1d4+1 wizards and has crudely stitched their robes into something more comfortable.
  86. This troll is a brick fancier, similar to pigeon fanciers but with pet bricks. Their prized stud has won best in show Trollheim Kennel Club Brick Show three years running.
  87. This troll is a Slab-fiend and has been running troll drugs to feed their addiction. Can you imagine how many condoms full of drugs you can fit up a troll’s butt?
  88. This troll works in the Dead Mail Office at the Goblin Post Office. Their job is to open undeliverable mail, sort out anything valuable, and eat the rest.
  89. This troll maintains a stall at The Goblin Market. Their wares are…well
  90. This troll stuck their finger so far up their nose that they hit gold. There is now a reasonably profitable mine built into their nostril. 
  91. This troll suffers from an embarrassing and contagious curse.
  92. This troll is an Archdeacon of Limos, Goddess of Hunger. They possess a variety of cannibalistic magic items and possess two cannibal mutations.
  93. If this troll crits when they punch you, you are literally punched into Next Week. You’ll show up battered and bruised (if not a cadaver) about twenty yards away in seven days.
  94. This isn’t a Troll but a Bollogg. Once they get large enough they’ll remove their largely useless head and go about their business. Most of them are looking for where they left their heads, many of those heads are now a part of various mountain ranges.
  95. This is not a Troll but a bio-mech disguised as a troll and piloted by a crew of appropriately sized gremlins.
  96. This troll stole Mjolnir while Thor was asleep, but they can only really drag it along. Thor will be around searching for it in short order.
  97. This troll possesses a magical spoon that lets it eat anything, but everything tastes like bland gruel. They’ll trade it for an opulent meal made by a renowned chef–or at least something they believe is opulent made by a convincing cook.
  98. This troll keeps a stock of Catoblepas Cheese sunscreen, that allows it to move through daylight unimpeded but gives it a stench that would bring tears to a gargoyle’s eyes.
  99. This troll just got done with a thousand year hibernation, having unknowingly acted as a fullsterkur stone for all that time. Now their hips are weirdly narrow from generations of vikings lifting/shifting/moving them and the vikings are wondering where in Hel their rock is at.
  100. This is actually Dovregubben, King of All Trolls. Or rather it is a tower-sized piece of Dovregubben, a chip that will unite back with Dovregubben to give them news of the outside world. 

 

And of course every troll has something very odd lodged somewhere in its stomach.

 

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