a wrathful guardian deity turned bitter and mean from people's preference for luxury and commerce over the true way.
2
a rogue psychopomp, meant to guard the boundary between life and death, but now obsessed with a more prosaic liminality.
3
an exiled runt of Jotunheim, using the bridge to shelter from the petrifying sun.
4
the spirit of the bridge itself, made carnal by the blood spilled upon it.
5
a wandering monster who settled down when it found its niche.
6
a displaced god of the land - its temple put to the torch, its priesthood routed - it's become twisted and petty from the disrespect.
D6
This bridge troll has
1
the head of a goat, with a spooled grey beard and great long horns which bend the troll into a stooped, genuflecting posture with their weight.
2
a ponderous head like a prize-winning gourd left to rot, the flesh saggy and be-sored - its body inhumanly muscled, the cords slithering under the skin and over the bones like a mass of worms.
3
a grossly overgrown and knobby skeleton, their warped bones pressing osteoderms through their thin, cracked flesh.
4
the bluish, bloated flesh of a drowned corpse, teeth and jaws fused and frozen into a bone-cracking grin, and a monkish pate of long and greasy black hair.
5
the warty, sagging bulk of a squatting toad, combined with the warty, betusked bulk of a warthog.
6
spidery long-lean limbs, a drum-taunt protruding gut, and beady-black, squinting eyes.
D6
A fellow-traveller in ousting this bridge troll is
1
an elderly knight in rusty, dented armour, wanting to pay a last visit to distant relatives.
2
a furious peasant fed-up with all taxes and tolls.
3
a chubby, incompetent sheriff on a last-chance mission from their lord to save their position.
4
an albino wizard sheltering in a toppled litter, their servants fled from or slain by the bridge troll.
5
a troll-crossed lover wishing to pursue a courtship across its span.
6
a smuggler & bandit posing as a legit merchant with an urgent delivery to make.
D6
The bridge this bridge troll trolls
1
was shaped from the roots of the clonal colony of an ancient tree - it is older than the nations of any who now walk across it.
2
is a solid structure of greasy black stone, quite unlike any other formations in the area - attempts to scrutinize it scientifically or magically return only a sense of telluric malevolence.
3
is a ramshackle construction, standing as much atop the ruin of past breakage as on sound engineering principles.
4
is an elaborate rope-way which allows many passengers and cargo-danglies to pass at once.
5
is made of slabs of concrete of some forgotten recipe, a span of brutal simplicty.
6
is a quavering thing of bone-white bricks joined with cracked and chalky mortar, all stained with the leavings of rain.
D6
This bridge this bridge troll trolls spans
1
a crevasse which gapes into unspeakable depths, and slavers out a cold and stinking mist.
2
a broad and green-black river, its steady surface belying the treacherous and currentous depths beneath.
3
a narrow stretch of rapids in the depths of a razor-edged valley.
4
the foamy spread between an isle and the mainland.
5
a sulphurous crag with a bubbling, incandescent runnel of lava crossing its bottom.
6
a glimmering, one-way rift into another plane of existence.
D6
This bridge troll demands the toll
1
of a delicious man-thing - however its eyes aren't so good, so it'll probably accept a shaved sheep or somesuch too.
2
of a song it's never heard before - though those of poor quality enrage it.
3
of a riddle it can't answer - and it's grown quite good at riddling.
4
of a fistful of pretty, shiny things - and its fist is quite large.
5
of a sundered weapon taken from one of its enemies.
6
of a demonstrably magic something-or-other, which it will promptly attempt to destroy - it hates magic.
😗 This is good material my dude
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