I agree a tribe of Trolls that are friendly would be a big save. The Half-Orc player his my brother in law so I have been running ideas by him with the game upcoming. I am curious how a Troll Character would work in the world, especially if an outsider comes to town and sees this tribe of Trolls working with the Half-Orcs and might cause some trouble. I will admit I kind of want to play a Troll character with all this research I am doing on them. I have an addictive personality and PF/D&D is a big addiction for me.
Durngrun Stonebreaker wrote:
Because some people have a belief that if its in the monster manuel as a monster to be killed and if it has an E in its alignment that you can kill it and nothing bad happens.
Durngrun Stonebreaker wrote:
Well kinda, I want more to bring to the debate then just "Hey its a baby" for example is there any reason why the baby would be irredeemably evil just for being a half-troll? I mean a Human Half-Troll could be a Pc as well so what is the difference?
Durngrun Stonebreaker wrote: So the question is: a baby is being born in a village and it's dad might be a bad guy, should we kill it in its mother's womb? That is basically the question. The baby might be a half troll and the son of the troll leader so will just bring more death and pain to the village. Keep Calm and Carrion wrote: What does the mother want? Ask, then abide by her wishes. She hates the troll that raped her, but she doesn't want her child killed or given over to the chief troll because she doesn't want him or her raised as a monster. Just a Mort wrote:
They might, we may have to try this. I know about the Half-Orc thing and of course this village would be better suited then most to handle a half-troll orc child.
Durngrun Stonebreaker wrote: Is it an evil village? Not that I know of, again one of our PCs is a member of the village who is just out adventuring so he did a bit of Local rolls and so forth to find out if something evil was afoot. They appear to be a NG Village of Half-Orcs who were being continuously attacked by a tribe of Trolls so we came to help. Just a Mort wrote:
Yeah here is the issue tell me the difference between an orc and a troll? Half-Orcs are already green, some have tusks (Though can't gore) big, strong, etc. Half-Orcs are generally pretty Greenskin like from the start. So Unless we cut the baby and see if it heals but... its a baby using a dagger even by the wizard may kill the baby anyway even if a wand of cure light wounds it on hand. My Character doesn't want to impose on anyone he is a NG character with leanings toward Lawful. So yeah he might see the baby as well.. a baby who has committed no crime and should not likely be punished for things it did not do. If we did kill the baby and at least two of our party are saying we should, just to be safe because it is suggested this may be heir to the new tribe of trolls and they will likely keep attacking till the daddy gets the heir back. zza ni wrote: why is it the PC's decision what to do with the baby. are they the vilige chief and or councel? let the tribe take care of it's members acording to their rules. it will be rude of you to take ocntrol and enforce your law on them. (unles you play chaotic characters who don't give a damn about law and then do what your other alignment tell you\good\nutral\evil) Well we just kind of took over for them in this matter of trolls. They are a peaceful village with only a few dozen fighte guards and a two or so low level clerics acting as doctors. We used the NPCs help during the last battles and we managed to kill two of the trolls, our knowledge check confirmed they were trolls and told us how to kill them so we kind of became defacto 'troll hunters' in this village. So the Half-Orc mother is not a high ranking member, she is a average level member herself, her father is the town mayor i think I don't recall it being confirmed but heavily implied. I know the Half-Orc player is being vocal about not killing the baby till it is born (Meaning don't stab mommy) and waiting to see if it is truly evil. Out of character he has admitted without the Evil subtype a paladin wouldn't be able to tell if the baby was evil with Detect Evil. And killing a neutral aligned creature who has done nothing wrong would be an evil act, killing a baby is a seriously evil act and might cause that Paladin to fall.
Alright so in a game we play now and then we have a situation ongoing and I wanted to get some input on what I should do. The reason we only get to play this now and then is the DM lives three hours away and we get to play when he comes into town when off break from school so its been a few weeks since last play but he should be coming back in this week. Now for the Cliche question.
The characters are currently in a Half-Orc village and we have been brought in to help push back a small tribe of Trolls that have been making attacks on the village. One of our NPCs had a wife attacked and of course she is pregnant when we got there. It was not till last session she admitted to being raped by the chieftain of the Troll Tribe. So now the baby may or may not be a Half-Troll creature. So what do we do? I mean it is in an established village, the mother will likely survive and if not has family in town. The village could raise the baby but it is a half-troll and might need to be dealt with. One member of our party is a Half-Orc himself and his background is that he is a local from this village hence why our group was called in. there is a chance the baby is not a Half-Troll so I OoC don't want to act to soon and risk a pissed off village on our ass for killing one of their kids, including one of our own being ticked. A secondary question I always had was. I had heard of the Orc Baby morale situation but what I always wondered it.. what if it was a half-orc baby. I mean any of us can play a half-orc and yet I see Goblins and Orcs as example but never Half-Orcs as an example? Is it because they are a playable race and so are not always considered pure evil? |