http://www.rpgbloggers.com The best in tabletop RPG blogs Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:12:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-i-almost-chose-lbbs.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-i-almost-chose-lbbs.html#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:21:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-2846095230201859752 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-i-almost-chose-lbbs.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/surfeit-of-demihumans.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/surfeit-of-demihumans.html#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:30:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-7836615018932228056 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/surfeit-of-demihumans.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/1-lord-vs-100-orcs.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/1-lord-vs-100-orcs.html#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:41:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-3150296320088182099 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/1-lord-vs-100-orcs.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/dexcon-after-action-report.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/dexcon-after-action-report.html#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:19:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-1432408355478022116 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/07/dexcon-after-action-report.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/06/taking-inventory.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/06/taking-inventory.html#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:09:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-7098085091430448394 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/06/taking-inventory.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/06/system-shock-survival.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/06/system-shock-survival.html#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:54:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-3419571718671576176 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/06/system-shock-survival.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-art-of-charge.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-art-of-charge.html#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 03:45:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-2873240860502485733 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-art-of-charge.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/05/temptation-of-white-box.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/05/temptation-of-white-box.html#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 17:52:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-4976675157334113005 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/05/temptation-of-white-box.html/feed/ 0 http://critical-hits.com/2010/04/22/my-rpg-dna-part-1-the-early-years-add-1e/ http://critical-hits.com/2010/04/22/my-rpg-dna-part-1-the-early-years-add-1e/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:54:04 +0000 Critical Hits http://critical-hits.com/?p=13186 http://critical-hits.com/2010/04/22/my-rpg-dna-part-1-the-early-years-add-1e/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/04/end-game-implications.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/04/end-game-implications.html#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:10:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-4857044751573484432 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/04/end-game-implications.html/feed/ 0 http://dlgame.blogspot.com/2010/03/when-4e-met-1e.html http://dlgame.blogspot.com/2010/03/when-4e-met-1e.html#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000 Dragonlance D&D Game Blog tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329271264001928180.post-3829275842180320964 ]]> http://dlgame.blogspot.com/2010/03/when-4e-met-1e.html/feed/ 0 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/03/fiend-folio-ugh.html http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/03/fiend-folio-ugh.html#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:17:00 +0000 Greyhawk Grognard tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691461744853003391.post-3183669120513381970 http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/03/fiend-folio-ugh.html/feed/ 0 http://dungeondelving.blogspot.com/2010/02/d-trivia-why-do-trolls-have-63-hd.html http://dungeondelving.blogspot.com/2010/02/d-trivia-why-do-trolls-have-63-hd.html#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:47:00 +0000 GM Glenno tag:www.rpgbloggers.com://9ee6cb4bc3275501f43e01e45a5a005c
Well the best place to start looking is in the roots of D&D - Chainmail. There is a combination entry on Trolls & Ogres which describes Ogres as the Nordic Tolkienesque sub-giant Trolls and True Trolls as the nasty rubbery brutes in Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions (a good novel in itself, but I digress!). Here we see a clue in that standard Trolls (ie Ogres) fight as six heavy foot figures. That is, they require six successful hits to be slain on the battlefield.

The original D&D pretty much translated hits to "hit dice", so that the Hero that fought as four foot figures now was a 4th level fighter with 4HD. Likewise, we can see the troll got 6HD, but but why +3 to the Troll's total hit points? I can only guess that the +3 was to give recognition of the heavy foot fighting ability as opposed to a standard light foot combat strength. It is also interesting to note that the Troll gets his new regeneration ability of 3 hit points per round in the first D&D rules.

By the time AD&D came, our Troll had 6+6 HD (using d8 instead of d6), and yet later still in D&D3 the Troll is still almost recognisable with 6d8+36 hit points! (The +36 comes from 6 hit dice of +6 due to consitution 23 - same as a PC gets con bonus to hit dice). Well that +36 is equivalent to an additional 8 HD on top of the original 6 HD beast of 1st edition, but the regeneration ability did not inflate to the same proportions, staying at 5 points per round.

So there we have it! The troll's colourful history of approximately 6 HD of death and destruction...

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