From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS)
Subject: Re: Trolls' regeneration
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:39:11 GMT

In article <BvpJsF.EHE@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, alongley@cape.UWaterloo.ca (Allan Longley) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct6.005640.24176@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS) writes:
|> >In article <Bvo9Lp.CHx@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, alongley@cape.UWaterloo.ca (Allan Longley) writes:
|> >|> 
|> >|> Trolls as "living" creatures has always been a good argument point 
|> >|> for AD&D'rs.  Here's a few questions;
|> >|> 
|> >|> 	Is a troll alive?
|> 
|> >Of course its alive.  It eats, grows, excretes, etc.  (don't have a bio book
|> >with me that lists all those criteria) but they are alive.
|> 
|> Grows?  Are there baby trolls?  It doesn't age.  It regenerates, but it does
|> not grow.  It doesn't need to breath, else you could kill a troll by 
|> submerging it in water.
|> 

Last time I checked, regeneration is a form of growth.  If you cut off a
troll's finger, it GROWS back.

Also, trolls AGE, but they don't have any hinderances that come with age.  (a
10 yr old troll is just as healthy as a 50,000 yr old troll.)

|> >|> Are they immortal (they shouldn't age thanks to regeneration)?
|> 
|> >They can be killed, but they shouldn't have any inate lifespan due to
|> >regeneration.
|> 
|> Killed or destroyed?  Wraiths are destroyed, bears are killed.  Is there any
|> other immortal creature that is alive?

Most diety's think they're both alive and immortal.

|> 
|> >|> 	How do they reproduce?
|> >
|> >Because they are immortal, I shouldn't think that they need to reproduce.  If
|> >they did, it's probably by fission.  (Cut a troll in half *boom* you have two
|> >trolls!)
|> 
|> Interesting ... the only way to generate 2 trolls from 1 is to but it into
|> 2 equal parts -- exactly equal.  This wouls keep troll propagation to a
|> minimum (else ... end of mankind).

Not by my view.  Any piece of a troll forms a new troll (assuming the piece
wasn't doused in fire or acid.)  However, trolls are unlikely to cut
themselves up to propogate, humans and other smart troll slayers torch the
bodies, and animals hunting trolls for food (*blech*) digest (with acid) the
troll meat, so this would limit the reproduction rate of trolls.
|> 
|> >|> 	Is a troll regenerated from a finger a new troll?
|> >
|> >If you give it enough time and keep away from fire/acid.
|> 
|> No, I mean a NEW troll, as opposed to the same troll reborn to extract
|> revenge!
|> 

Yes, a new troll.

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|> Allan Longley, University of Waterloo, Department of Chemical Engineering
|> e-mail: alongley@cape.uwaterloo.ca
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