Moon Troll

A relative of trolls, this species has a deep innate connection with magic, and replenishes its magical energy with unnatural speed. Despite their size and strength, they take poorly to fighting. “Moon troll” is merely a working title, and probably not a good choice for the actual name, but being related to trolls sounds appropriate.

Sounds more as an archon or djinn species to me, pure mental/magic beings. — roderic 2011-11-14 17:02

I like that idea, but I had the thought that one could call this race “Deep Troll” as the “deep” prefix seems to denote a more magic-based creature. Deep Trolls as monsters could be made spellcasters as well? — roctavian 2011-11-23 19:28

Real Norse Trolls are skilled with magic in the first place. For example, the modern Norwegian word for magician is “trollman”. You might try looking up the related Norse “Huldre/Huldra” and see if it's what you have in mind. — AceSV 2012-5-5 9:45

• Fast MP regeneration
• Spellcasting brick: high HP, poor EV, good magic aptitudes
• Good match for conjurer; conjurers have more MP problems than anyone else, and would get high HP without investing in skills

  Fighting -2
  Short Blades -3
  Long Blades -2
  Axes -2
  Maces & Flails -1
  Polearms -2
  Staves -2
  Slings -3
  Bows -3
  Crossbows -2
  Throwing -1
  Armour -4
  Dodging -3
  Stealth -2
  Stabbing -3
  Shields -4
  Traps & Doors -2
  Unarmed Combat -1
  Spellcasting +2
  Conjurations 0
  Hexes +3
  Charms +2
  Summonings +2
  Necromancy +1
  Translocations +1
  Transmutations +1
  Fire Magic +1
  Ice Magic +1
  Air Magic 0
  Earth Magic +2
  Poison Magic 0
  Invocations -1
  Evocations +1

  Large size
  MP regeneration 2 (new mutation)
  Fast metabolism 2
  Tough skin 2

• Naga HP
• High elf MP
• High Int, medium Str, poor Dex
• Gains 1 Int every 5 levels

Leave comments on the species here.

• Cannot be allowed to wear pants. — XuaXua 2011-04-16 18:05
• I think it might actually be more interesting if they had low int, like a troll, but very high MP/MP regen. So they could spells constantly, but they'd have problems getting spell power up. — eronarn 2011-04-17 02:48
  • Yeah, it seems to me like the only way to make this interesting (and balanced–natural spellcaster with troll HP/regen) is to give him extremely lopsided magic apts in the same way that ogres do. I'll vote for them getting the more MP to play with than anyone else at all and decent (or maybe even outright good) scores in the magic schools, but terrible Spellcasting and lousy int–they'll have few spell slots and horrendous spell hunger (on top of their already horrendous troll hunger). So you can hurl around all the spells you want without paying attention to your MP, and can soak up damage like a rock, but you have terrible variety in your spells (mimicking normal trolls?) and will starve to death if you don't practice a lot of restraint. — brickman 2011-04-17 07:18
  • This is interesting but I worry it makes them too similar to plain trolls (and to a lesser extent, ogres). — minmay 2011-04-24 14:36