From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Valeu John EMFA) |
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Subject: | Troll Size (was RE: Dermal Deposits) |
Date: | Thu Nov 1 05:25:01 2001 |
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>>bigger than 8' tops, I use the simple logic of this. The average troll
>>starts off life as a human and then "goblinizes" around puberty. This
>>in itself is enough to rationalize that the troll isn't going to be
>>OVERLY large. This isn't to say that they're not going to be massive
>>just not as huge as you guys are letting on. I usually have the average
>>troll running about 7'-7'8" and they usually run around 400-650lbs
>>depending on their body attribute. I'll generally debate the weight and
>>height with the player depending on what they're going for and what the
>>strength and body attributes are. Let me know if I'm the only one
>>treating trolls in this manner or where I'm ignoring the rules from so I
>>can modify the game that we're running in cause I'd really like to stick
>>within a reasonable range of the rules.
>First of all, play your games however you want. The mark of a good GM in my
>book is one who will happily throw the rules out the window if he doesn't
>like them.
>After the initial rash of Goblinisation, most metas are born meta. It is
>very rare for a human to change in "current" times. As for the gain in
mass,
>assume it is an effect of magic, a sort of permanent Transformation
>Manipulation ("Whenever something like that happens, a wizard did it", as
>Lucy Lawless said).
>I can't see it as just you who underestimates the size of trolls. After
all,
>most of the art draws trolls as not much bigger than orks. A dozen pictures
>against a single line of text in the race description.
>I don't have the third edition rules, so I can't point to specific
sections,
>sorry.
I think I used to be the same way as Derek on this. Because the only 'group
picture' I every saw of a Troll was in 2nd ed.
And like it was stated, they didn't look much bigger then orks (which I
believe were only about 6'5"-6'7" on average).
If anyone has the 2nd Ed book, could they do the metric conversions so I
could get a more accurate picture?
Also, I remember hearing/reading somewhere that someone suggested that
Trolls were kinda proportioned similar to gorillas (I guess this was to
signify that they were 'knuckle draggers'). Is that in anyway true?
Funny, I used to know this stuff. But after having no contact with trolls
in 2 years....
EMFA John Valeu
-AKA- TimeKeeper
"Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today, because it's just a
matter of time."