Homebrew Half Troll Species Details

Half-trolls are the result of mingling between other races of humanoids, usually Humans or Orcs, and the mutant giants called trolls. Like their troll parents, they have tremendous appetites and powerful metabolic abilities. However, despite still having a passionate and mercurial temperament, the average half-troll is markedly less chaotic and wild than a full-blooded troll.

Description

A half-troll's arms and legs are very long compared to the rest of his or her body, and they walk with a troll's hunched gait. They tend to grow thick, sharp fingernails, though still noticeably blunter and shorter than a troll's, and tough growths on their shoulders and backs.

Half-trolls have a variety of skin-colours, mostly greens, blues, and greys in a variety of shades. Most have either yellow or green eyes or eyes like their other parent's species. Additionally, most half-trolls have larger noses, smaller eyes, and sharper teeth than humanoids without troll blood. Half-trolls tend to have thick hair that grows out very quickly. Dreadlocks and braids are very common hairstyles, although facial and body hair is uncommon.

Society

Half-trolls often experience prejudice growing up, not only because of their resemblance to a dangerous and monstrous race but because they are often seen as stupid and impulsive. Due to shared experiences and similar outlooks, urban half-trolls almost always gravitate towards half-orc neighbourhoods, where they find they fit in better, if not perfectly. Frontier half-trolls will have very different experiences depending on how dangerous and aggressive the local troll tribes are.

All half-trolls have known hunger at least once in their lives. They require huge amounts of food to maintain their bodies, and they starve much more quickly than other humanoids when deprived of it. This fact, combined with their difficulty finding high-paying employment and natural restless temperament, means that many half-trolls choose to supplement their caloric intake through unconventional means. Few outsiders, even among half-orcs, can easily understand the sight of a hungry half-troll nipping a quick snack out of some carrion on the road or half-rotten garbage from a gutter, but the answer has some basis in troll biology. Like dogs, trolls find very few smells naturally unpleasant, and their half-troll relatives don't taste all the nasty flavours of rot that normal humanoids have adapted to stay away from. After all, their bodies can usually handle the strain.

Suggested Characteristics

When creating a half-troll character, you can use the following table of traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws to help flesh out your character. Use these table in addition to or in place of your background's characteristics.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I hate that everyone assumes that makes me an easily-fooled simpleton.
2	I take great care to groom myself every day, especially when it comes to cleaning my teeth and sweetening my breath.
3	My natural healing is tougher than even other half-trolls, and it has left me with a tiny vestigial limb.
4	My troll parent actually tried to help raise me, and I learned a lot from them.
5	I've gotten my relentless appetite under better control with help from a religious group, and I've become quite devout.
6	I've learned to keep my ears and mouth shut since most people are just trying to take advantage of me anyway.
7	I look surprisingly like my non-troll parent and haven't been the subject of much racial prejudice as a result.
8	Both of my parents were also half-trolls, and I grew up in a small half-troll settlement.

 

Half Troll Traits

Your troll blood gives you access to powerful abilities, but give you equally powerful drawbacks.

Powerful Build.

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Ability Score Increase.

Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Strength increases by 1.

Trollish Regeneration.

If you are below half your hit point maximum at the start of your turn, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). You must have at least 1 hit point to use this feature.

Also an action, you can reattach a severed limb; This can include your head if you were decapitated, This counts as a use of your Trollish Regeneration. While decapitated you have disadvantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, saving throws, and all attack rolls against you have advantage; also, you are considered blinded and deafened until you reattach or regrow the head. If the detached part cannot be reattached it will regrow over a long rest.

In addition, you regain half your maximum health over a short rest.

Darkvision

You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 30 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Troll’s Bane.

You are vulnerable to Fire and Acid damage.

Claws

Your claws are natural weapons, which you are proficient. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Voracious Diet

Due to your extreme metabolism, you're almost always hungry, you must eat as much food and drink as a Large size creature, twice as much as a medium creature, each day to stave off starvation. Also, thanks to your troll blood you can safely consume raw or rotting meat with no chance of ill effect. You are Immune to disease.

Languages

You speak Common and Giant.