Trollin' Trollin' Trollin'...

[Admiral Squish]

So, I've got some interesting ideas for trolls, but I've run into a bit of a stumbling block. I need two words to describe bigger, nastier versions of trolls. I want it to be a word of its own, not just 'dire' trolls or whatever. I had the idea for Trollock, but my brother pointed out that's apparently taken. I'd like the words to involve 'troll' somehow, but that's not priority one. So, a little help, playground?

[Morbis Meh]

Collusstroll?

[DragonOfUndeath]

Satroll?
Ditrol?
Trollfie?

[B1okHead]

Trollzilla? King Troll? Da Big Troll? Da Bigga Troll?

[Silus]

"What in the God's name is that thing?!"

[J.Gellert]

Mortroll?

Khartroll?

Trollort? :smalltongue:

Must resist urge to make jokes...

[Seerow]

Seconding Trollzilla

[AslanCross]

Collusstroll?

Or Trollossus. :smalltongue:

4E has the Fell Troll.
You could just drop the "troll" nomenclature from the name and call them "Savagespawn" or "Green renders" (Not related to Gray renders).

[Angry Bob]

Emerald Legionnaire (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101587)

[Grelna the Blue]

Maybe "dread trolls", "abyssal trolls", "troll titans", or "grave trolls"?

[Talon Sky]

"What in the God's name is that thing?!"

Quote for win.

[The Tygre]

Megalo-Troll
Mega-Troll
Jotnar-Troll
Jotun-Troll
Thurs-Troll

[kestrel404]

Trolloc
Dire Troll
Lesser Tarrasque
Ubertroll
Edit: Twoll

[The-Mage-King]

Epic Troll? (http://knowyourmeme.com/i/22007/original/02254epic.png?1255085431)

[Morbis Meh]

Or Trollossus. :smalltongue:

4E has the Fell Troll.
You could just drop the "troll" nomenclature from the name and call them "Savagespawn" or "Green renders" (Not related to Gray renders).

Much better than mine good job

[AgentPaper]

Just call it a Successful Troll. If your players ask for details, simply explain to them that is is successful.

[Mordrigar]

Trollthulu

Imagine Half-illithid Aquatic trolls.

[AJ_Impy]

Trock. \m/

[nedz]

Just call it a Successful Troll. If your players ask for details, simply explain to them that is is successful.

Trump Troll :smallbiggrin:

[Notreallyhere77]

Ultroll/ultratroll

Megalotroll exists in Ultimate Monsters Vol 1 or 2, published by Mongoose.

It's huge, has twice the regenerative power, and is overall pretty nasty.

[Zeta Kai]

Let's go with Tolkien for this one. Torog (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/t/torog.html) is the Sindarin name for a troll. The Olog-hai (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/ologhai.html) were the greater trolls used by Sauron during the War of the Ring, commonly called war-trolls.

[Salbazier]

Overtroll
Grantroll
Magnatroll
Trollrex
Extroll
Juggertroll
Doomtroll
King-troll
Archtroll
Troll-Khan
Supreme Troll
Eldricht Troll
Ascendant Troll
Sovereign Troll
Bane of Life
Unstoppable Dread
Wild Sovereign
The Beast
Bane of Sheeps
Troll of Trolls

[Nanoblack]

Give it bardic capabilities and you got yourself a Trololo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY)

[Zaq]

Trick Troll.

Then follow through. I know you see what I did there.

[AslanCross]

Trick Troll.

Then follow through. I know you see what I did there.

That would probably be the bardic troll mentioned above.

This troll has flaming red hair and is dressed in a khaki trenchcoat. It stops short of charging you, and instead claps its hands and begins a strange, shuffling dance.

"Never gonna give you up!"

[Chambers]

Some words/names that mean other things that would be cool names for Trolls.

jötnar
Jötunn
thurs
Vanir
Aesir

[Tvtyrant]

The Petroll? The Controll? The Springroll?

[Coidzor]

That would probably be the bardic troll mentioned above.

This troll has flaming red hair and is dressed in a khaki trenchcoat. It stops short of charging you, and instead claps its hands and begins a strange, shuffling dance.

"Never gonna give you up!"
:smalleek:
The players don't stand a chance.

[OracleofWuffing]

Gigantroll! Gigantroll! Giga-a-antroll!

[Swooper]

Some words/names that mean other things that would be cool names for Trolls.

jötnar
Jötunn
thurs
Vanir
Aesir
Jötnar is just plural for jötunn, though.

[Jack_Simth]

Jötnar is just plural for jötunn, though.
Only in the original language. There's no particular reason that it needs to be the case for the imaginary language you're importing it into to use as a new classification of creature.

[Keld Denar]

Forum troll?

Oh, you touch my troll la la! Oh, my ding ding dong! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrnduGtgmc)
Must include epic troll mustache!

[Marillion]

Let's go with Tolkien for this one. Torog (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/t/torog.html) is the Sindarin name for a troll. The Olog-hai (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/ologhai.html) were the greater trolls used by Sauron during the War of the Ring, commonly called war-trolls.

I will second these suggestions.

[Tvtyrant]

Let's go with Tolkien for this one. Torog (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/t/torog.html) is the Sindarin name for a troll. The Olog-hai (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/ologhai.html) were the greater trolls used by Sauron during the War of the Ring, commonly called war-trolls.

The Black Trolls you mean? :smallwink:

[mabriss lethe]

Did someone say.... Finntroll? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEzuxkkGyWQ)

[megabyter5]

Don't give it a new name. Make the Super-Trolls reveal that they are the "real" Trolls, and all the Trolls they've fought so far are just Noob Trolls.

[Jokasti]

Forum troll?

Oh, you touch my troll la la! Oh, my ding ding dong! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrnduGtgmc)
Must include epic troll mustache!

Is it bad that I've heard this song before, several times, and knew what it was without clicking? One of my friends has the weirdest taste in music.

Theres an old british tale of a troll so large his name was a portmanteau of the two largest trolls before him who became him? Gargantua iirc.

[averagejoe]

Patrollers
Barrel-Troll
Rock n' Troll

More seriously, you could name them after the region they come from, to borrow another Tolkien mainstay. (i.e. Northerlings are people from the north, Azurlings are from Azure City, Cailians are from Cairo, and so on.)

[umbrapolaris]

The Petroll? The Controll? The Springroll?


hahaha excellent ^^


Castroll ? Trollex ( a troll who always know what time is it ^^) ? trolling stone (a bardic troll) ? troll royce (a troll with a nice mount) ?

[Grelna the Blue]

Gigantroll! Gigantroll! Giga-a-antroll!

Ha! Good thing for me I spent a summer in Guadalajara 20 years ago, or that would completely have passed over my head. Well done!

[kieza]

Just out of curiosity, what are your ideas for trolls? I ran a heavily fey and fairy-tale related campaign a while back, and I wound up making trolls in my setting into fey...of the "live under bridges and terrorize passers-by" variety.

[Roland St. Jude]

Olog-hai sprung to mind, as others have mentioned. Or possibly turn a proper name into a class of creatures and call them Grendels.

[mabriss lethe]

Olog-hai sprung to mind, as others have mentioned. Or possibly turn a proper name into a class of creatures and call them Grendels.

This (http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/462/638925-203235_30075_grendel_prime_super.jpg).... Just (http://www.comicbookdaily.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Grendelrose.jpg)....This (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/e/eppy1.jpg)

[randomhero00]

High Trolls...then have them go into combat smoking joints...:smallbiggrin:

[Admiral Squish]

Just out of curiosity, what are your ideas for trolls? I ran a heavily fey and fairy-tale related campaign a while back, and I wound up making trolls in my setting into fey...of the "live under bridges and terrorize passers-by" variety.

You'll all get to see what comes of this. I just want to finish writing up the fluff for the last three varieties of troll before I post this into the homebrew section. I've already decided what the two troll-names are, I'm just enjoying watching what people keep coming up with. :smallbiggrin:

[Keld Denar]

WoW already did Rasta-trolls. Well, technically WC2+, but yea...Blizzard...

[Admiral Squish]

Here you go, trolls remade. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178106) Enjoy!

[plllizzz]

I'm shocked this wasn't suggested yet - Mumintroll

http://www.finlandsinstitutet.se/images/mumintroll2.gif

[Escheton]

Trock
Trell
Frelltroll
Hatroll
Cave-troll
War-troll
Crystal-troll
Ice-troll
Deep-troll
Trolloc
Troll-Titan
Troll-fathers
etc

[Weimann]

You know something? It's really much more efficient if you don't name them. Much scarier. It's one thing to be up against a strong and fierce monster, but to then realise that no one has seen them enough to bother to name them (or, in this case, returned to name them)... that can be quite unsettling.

However, if anything, I'd advice a name that doesn't use the word "troll". that will just kill all the excitement; players will know "they are beefed up trolls, okay" and then they can be beaten by stat twisting. If you name them something obscure, then there's more uncertainty.

[Achernar]

Scantily-clad Female Half-Giant War Troll

meet..
THE TROLLOP! Now I am going to the punitentiary for sure.

[Hallavast]

Youtuber.

Youtube Commenter (more specific).

[Sir Swindle89]

Thurs-Troll

Mon-Troll
Tues-Troll
Wednes-Troll
Fri-Troll
Satur-Troll
Sun-Troll

[Sipex]

I second the no-name advice. Just make them bigger trolls and let your players figure out a name for them. This name will be more imposing than any name you come up with.

(Hint, if they're average D&D players the name will probably be Dire Troll)

[Admiral Squish]

You know something? It's really much more efficient if you don't name them. Much scarier. It's one thing to be up against a strong and fierce monster, but to then realise that no one has seen them enough to bother to name them (or, in this case, returned to name them)... that can be quite unsettling.

However, if anything, I'd advice a name that doesn't use the word "troll". that will just kill all the excitement; players will know "they are beefed up trolls, okay" and then they can be beaten by stat twisting. If you name them something obscure, then there's more uncertainty.

I ended up naming the trolls+ torogs and the trolls++ jotun. check out the thread I linked for more info.

[Psyren]

Ultroll

Throw my vote behind this one, it just trolls rolls off the tongue.

[ScionoftheVoid]

I was going to suggest DQ's Boss Troll and Great Troll, oh well.

[big teej]

That would probably be the bardic troll mentioned above.

This troll has flaming red hair and is dressed in a khaki trenchcoat. It stops short of charging you, and instead claps its hands and begins a strange, shuffling dance.

"Never gonna give you up!"

so... using this.
-yoink!-

[Weezer]

How about ur-troll?
The prefix ur- denotes something ancient or primevieal, which fits in with the idea in many fantasy worlds that older things are bigger, badder and meaner.

[randomhero00]

Hah, guess no one liked my funny idea of high trolls :smallbiggrin:


but also, what about something that moves on four legs (quadroped)? Trolls seem very...animalistic, I've always been surprised that most fantasy writers put them as bipedal. Just a note...

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Perhaps you could use "Trollop?" I remember in one fairy tale the main character had to defeat an evil troll, and then she had her beloved prince stolen by the Troll's daughter, who was called "The Trollop."

[Zhalath]

Gigatroll. Or, for you that are inclined, Jiga Troll.

Or, if you want to share it and freak them out, Hive Mother Troll.

Trollalisk.

Tengen Toppa Troll.

Troll^2

Bat-troll (scary).

Bear Troll.

In all seriousness, I'd call it something like a Titan Troll or Primordial Troll or a Fiendtroll or something.

[faceroll]

Uwe Troll.