Can trolls drown?

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-09-16 03:44pm

Could you kill a troll by drowning it? If you put it in water it drowned, then you pulled it out would it get up again or would it stay dead? I killed one once in the madmaze game on prodigy this way. Don't think they used to AD&D rules for trolls though, rather the "3 billygoats who crossed the bridge story" rules.
What are some other ways to kill it? What about putting it through the blender? If there's no cells left to regenerate wouldn't that do it. Or killing it with necromancy- finger of death, etc. The 2nd ed monstrous compendium said that if a troll was chopped up that only the largest piece would regenerate, but people used to tell me if you cut a troll into pieces that each piece would become a new troll.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-09-16 04:59pm

Hmmm... do trolls respire? If they do, I don't see why it wouldn't work, although you might have to weight the body down. At that point, scavengers in the water should take care of it.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-09-16 05:04pm

3rd Ed troll rules only allow for regrowing of severed bits and 5 HP/round healing.

Tarrasque style death immunity is a bit much..

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2003-09-16 05:09pm

Shrykull wrote:Could you kill a troll by drowning it? If you put it in water it drowned, then you pulled it out would it get up again or would it stay dead? I killed one once in the madmaze game on prodigy this way.

Of course it would stay dead. Says so right there in the Buffy sourcebook.

BlackWarMewtwo · Post by **BlackWarMewtwo** » 2003-09-16 05:59pm

The way I see it, the only way to really get rid of a troll is to ignore it until it gets bored.

Though it is much more fun to flame them.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-09-16 06:10pm

Let's find out if trolls drown.

Get DarkStar, a rope and the biggest rock you can find.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-09-16 06:15pm

You can drown trolls. You can drown anything that breaths, as long as it's into a medium it can't breath.

i.e Water breathing trolls can't breath quick sand

I agree, flaming them is more fun. Nothing kills a troll quicker then 8 elves with long bows and flaming arrows

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-09-16 06:28pm

Iceberg wrote:Let's find out if trolls drown.

Get DarkStar, a rope and the biggest rock you can find.

Heh... who needs a rope? All you need is a carefully constructed argument that humans require air to breathe, and he'll cheerfully leap into the river himself and hug a rock in an attempt to prove that water is EU and has no impact on his lungs.

Anyways, from the sound of things all you need to do is inflict more damage than its regenerative abilities can cope with. If you want to go to the extreme of "any one large body mass can regenerate," pureeing (sp?) the troll would still work, as would incineration, freezing, and dissolving it in acid.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-17 09:10am

Well, aren''t Warhammer trolls unable to regenerate wounds caused by fire??

SecondStorm · Post by **SecondStorm** » 2003-09-17 03:14pm

IIRC Warhammer trolls cant regenerate any wounds at all if they have sustained a wound from fire beforehand.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-17 07:30pm

Well since many of them live under bridges & around rivers one would assume that they are fairly good swimmers, I do recall legends of them living underwater and being somewhat amphibious....

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-09-17 10:33pm

Iceberg wrote:Let's find out if trolls drown.

Get DarkStar, a rope and the biggest rock you can find.

Can't. Scooter is of the particular variant Trollo Antisapiens Antisapiens, which emits bozon particles. We can't safely approach that close to him without being adversely affected by the bozon.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-09-18 01:38am

hmmm actually we can we jjust use that portable tractor beam Wesly Crusher made hmm nice irony a piece of Trek Tech doing Scooter in

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-18 10:51am

SecondStorm wrote:IIRC Warhammer trolls cant regenerate any wounds at all if they have sustained a wound from fire beforehand.

I know this is in the rules, but is it also in the background??

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2003-09-18 01:43pm

in discworld trolls are capable of walking on river bottoms such was seen when big jim beef the costoms troll in lancre was thrown in the lancre river by the visisting "Mr Ook" he then walked ot of the river on the other side of the river to Mr Ook, sulking of course:P

PzGren · Post by **PzGren** » 2003-09-20 01:16pm

The Discworld Trolls, other than Warhammer or D&D ones are silicon based lifeforms that don't respire. Their minds are affected by temperature as well. Wattercooling get a new meaning... Ever read "Feet of Clay"?

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