nostrils carved and scarified into shuddering trenches
across their faces, and eyes that constantly weep from the pressure of
their perpetually-closing tear ducts.
2
vaingloriously jewel-inlaid tusks.
3
parasitic vines embedded in their skin, leeching off their regenerative nutrients.
4
quill-tufted tails.
5
serrated bone-ridge mohawks stretching out the skin of their skulls.
6
jaws that split open down the middle like insectoid mandibles.
D6
These trolls' hides
1
are abused-looking things, bruised flesh puckering and stretched around the osteoderms of their gnarled and knobbly skeletons.
2
are mucus-membrane pink, slathered in dripping, viscous slime like a worked-up hagfish.
3
are boar-bristly, blubbery and layered and grey like a very well-fed rhinocerous.
4
are wrinkled like fingers left underwater for too long.
5
twitch with a coating of stubby, hairy-knuckled fingers.
6
are veiny tangles, red and blue and purple, rippling with every heartbeat.
D6
These trolls are
1
primordial man-shapes, pseudo-hominids, living fossils
from a time before the strict delineations of species and organs and
forms.
2
unfortunate sorts mutated by wandering into zones of intense positive energy.
3
proscribed elementals of the forbidden plane of flesh.
4
hosts to an abstract parasite that feeds off and prolongs their suffering.
5
hungry ghosts - gaki - who crawled out of the underworld, trapping themselves into a wheel of samsara contained in one flesh.
6
teratomas excised from the bodies that grew them and
then nurtured into independent yet still-cancerous organisms in vats of
alchemical serum.
D6
These trolls regenerate
1
like molting crustaceans, popping out of their own hides a little smaller and softer.
2
by melting like wax under a blowtorch, their fattened frames thinning out to restore lost flesh.
3
with amniotic fluid-filled boils that sprout around
injured areas - popping the boils before they can resettle as new
tissues stops the regeneration.
4
multiplicatively - adding more limbs, more flesh, until eventually they collapse under their own weight.
5
by rapidly accelerating their metabolism - they become
painfully hot to the touch while regenerating, and if injured
excessively will spontaneously combust from their own heat.
6
adaptively, becoming more resistant to damage sources that have previously injured them.
D6
These trolls can
1
regurgitate high-pressure hose-blasts of their
hyper-corrosive stomach acid, adapted to digesting their own kind's
regenerating flesh.
2
bud off little goblin-clones.
3
rapidly extend their nails into brittle spears, or their hair into entangling nets.
4
infect those exposed to their bodily fluids with a
myriad of diseases - they're multi-disease reservoirs, which never kill
them due to their special biology.
5
temporarily hypertrophy their muscles for a telegraphed mega-hit.
6
contort themselves down into the flayed skins of their
prey as a disguise, their regenerative power keeping the skins from
decomposing.
D6
From these trolls you might loot
1
a bezoar that neutralizes poison you ingest by transmuting it into a totally-random potion.
2
essential salts that can be sniffed by hirelings to
supress their fear response - negating the need for morale rolls - by
way of increasing the pressure on certain lobes of their brains through
anomalous nervous growth.
3
a serum you can inject into animals to turn them dire and vicious.
4
their blood, which you can drink as an impromptu healing potion with a high risk of mutation.
5
an ever-lengthening matt of hair that can be woven into an endless amount of rope.
6
magical items they've embedded into their flesh as
external gastroliths, using their exceptional durability to mash durable
materials into an edible paste or crumble.
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