So how exactly do you kill a troll?


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My players got the trolls down to a point where staying in initiative order was kinda silly.

So we kinda of role-played burning the trolls.


Hitting them with fire or acid stops their regeneration for the next round, or, if you were to read it as written, it could be interpreted that hitting them with fire or acid stops their regeneration in the next round, but it never starts back up again... that reading is far too silly, so, killing the troll while their regen is stopped kills them permanently

Grand Lodge

If the party can do more damage then the regen, then yeah just role play it out...but then again I have seen the I'm a "role player" type make level 10 characters that can't do double digits...in which case, the troll is allowed to wake up and eat their face.


That's a perfectly acceptable way of handling it. I've seen multiple different groups of players do the same thing. Lower level parties or those that just don't have currently have access to fire or acid damaging attacks will most likely do something like that from my experience.

Liberty's Edge

If the PC's have access to fire, and they have taken all the trolls down, yeah. I wouldn't stay in initiative order unless I'm running the whole dungeon that way.


Karlgamer wrote:

My players got the trolls down to a point where staying in initiative order was kinda silly.

So we kinda of role-played burning the trolls.

Suffocate them.. or as we used to call it 'ostrich them'.

Fire is over-rated and over-done.

-James

Liberty's Edge

Oooh! I just thought of this. How do you kill a troll?

Ban his IP!

...sorry.


Every adventurer should carry at least one torch. 1 fire damage! Gyarr.


james maissen wrote:
Suffocate them.

I don't think you can suffocate them.

If even a small peace of troll flesh can grow into a full troll.


Karlgamer wrote:
james maissen wrote:
Suffocate them.

I don't think you can suffocate them.

If even a small peace of troll flesh can grow into a full troll.

I don't think EVERY SINGLE piece of troll flesh can grow into a troll. The description states that only the largest chunk retains the regeneration.

It would not be good for the world at large if this was otherwise, as I can envision tribes of trolls chopping some of their population into tiny bits in order to bolster their ranks into huge armies.

Plus, it would make procreation meaningless...

Whoa - In this case, would that mean that every troll in existence would be a regrowth of THE original Troll?


Kill them with fire!


Drawmij's_Heir wrote:


I don't think EVERY SINGLE piece of troll flesh can grow into a troll. The description states that only the largest chunk retains the regeneration.

Ya, but if only a small piece is left that small peace is the Largest chunk.

Drawmij's_Heir wrote:


Plus, it would make procreation meaningless...

Not meaningless just recreation.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Karlgamer wrote:
I don't think you can suffocate them.

Sure you can! Slit their throat (putting them to negative hit points), take off your sock, piss on it, jam it down their windpipe, and watch as the neck seals itself up, thereby locking the obstruction in their windpipe and blocking their airway.

You just suffocated a troll in five easy steps.


Ravingdork wrote:
take off your sock, piss on it, jam it down their windpipe, and watch as the neck seals itself up, thereby locking the obstruction in their windpipe and blocking their airway.

Why does all of your advice involve peeing on a sock.

escape prison? "pee on a sock"

surviving the 9th layer or hell? "pee on a sock"

clear athletes foot? "pee on a sock"

Dealing with difficult players? "pee on there socks"


Karlgamer wrote:
Ravingdork wrote:
take off your sock, piss on it, jam it down their windpipe, and watch as the neck seals itself up, thereby locking the obstruction in their windpipe and blocking their airway.

Why does all of your advice involve peeing on a sock.

escape prison? "pee on a sock"

surviving the 9th layer or hell? "pee on a sock"

clear athletes foot? "pee on a sock"

Dealing with difficult players? "pee on there socks"

LMAO!

I'm sorry RD, but that's friggin hilarious.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Karlgamer wrote:
Why does all of your advice involve peeing on a sock.

Because it is good advice of course! :P

Karlgamer wrote:
escape prison? "pee on a sock"

Do you really think your "fake being sick and jump the guard" plan will work if you don't at least "smell" sick?

Karlgamer wrote:
surviving the 9th layer or hell? "pee on a sock"

It's hot down there and you will need to keep cool anyway you can. Throw it around your neck for best results.

Karlgamer wrote:
clear athletes foot? "pee on a sock"

It's a disinfectant and can kill fungus.

Karlgamer wrote:
Dealing with difficult players? "pee on there socks"

Sometimes, its the ONLY way to get their attention.

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:P


To be honest... they've all work with my party.


In my home brew game my player fought a whole bunch of Trolls and Fire, Acid, Massive Tamra and a couple of Jar. But My favorite was radiation from Burn blight the Kill the Troll of Absalom, little anti climax but it was pretty good story.

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