![]() ![]() I knew about Jack Vance’s influence on Gygax and his magic system - often referred to as Vancian - and I have read all the Dying Earth books - some of them multiple times - while growing up: “The Dying Earth”, “Eyes of the Overworld”, “Cudgel’s Saga”, and “Rhialto the Marvelous”. Where did Gygax get this version of the troll? “Three Hearts and Three Lions”. D&D trolls, on the other hand, are truly monstrous and alien they also have the weird ability to regenerate, and their severed limbs can go on fighting, even rejoin the body they are some kind of protean monster with hollow eyes. They’re not very intelligent, but they’re also not animals. ![]() Typical trolls from myth, are shaggy, brutish humanoids - kind of half-beast and half-man and more than a bit ape-like - as in the troll from “Three Billy Goats Gruff”. When you see the troll in the original monster manual and you know anything about trolls in Scandinavian myths, you’ll notice that they look very different. Trolls from D&D A troll from Will Huygen’s 1976 book, “Gnomes” ![]()
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