Comments for Trollgod's Trollhalla - The Outer Sanctum

Comment on Trollworld Revisited by archivis

archivis — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:38:43 +0000

Sounds like fun!

Comment on Trollworld Revisited by kcaff

kcaff — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:20 +0000

Oh, and yes I’d be interested in a boardgame.

Comment on Trollworld Revisited by kcaff

kcaff — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:54 +0000

I really liked the one that came with the 7.5 boxed set, although that being my first T&T purchase I suppose I wouldn’t know any better.

Comment on Trollworld Revisited by MormonYoYoMan

MormonYoYoMan — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:33:58 +0000

As if you had to ask….. (Hint: YES!!)

Comment on More Fellowship Pictures by GNoll

GNoll — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:49:34 +0000

No one remembers any more? Shame on you. I read the first two captions, and thought, “Khenn is doing Robert Service.”

Comment on The Common Tongue by Grrraall

Grrraall — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:56:34 +0000

Mais oui, cher!

Comment on The Common Tongue by Mark NZ

Mark NZ — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:13:49 +0000

The Common Tongue makes the game ‘playable’ – I like the notion that just about all the common kindreds are passable in it if they have ever lived outside their own kindred settlements.
Still, we’re all trying to learn a bit of Spanish so of course I have npcs at the moment who use Spanish nouns rather than their English equivalents. Another sales pitch for dT&T: it’s the best way to learn new languages!

Comment on The Common Tongue by Starff Orenggk

Starff Orenggk — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:39:28 +0000

It’s funny . . . Tolkien was a language maven who took immense pains to create elvish languages and alphabets. I’ve read that his fiction was an excuse to publish his fictional languages.

And then he throws in a barely-described “common tongue” and has all of the characters understand it and talk it! I can’t think of a particular case where a newly-met character shrugs and scratches his head when the heroes meet them, because he can’t understand them!

I know that there’s a little more detail in the appendixes. For example, Tolkien reveals that the “Shire” is actually pronounced “Suza” (with a dialectic mark over the z) and Sam’s name is actually “Bam!”

But that-all said, I think the “common tongue” is a very useful notion. If the GM wants to go into detail, she or he could give it a name, and make up other human languages and dialects to go along with “racial” tongues.

Comment on New Way of Sending Messages to all Trollhallans by MormonYoYoMan

MormonYoYoMan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:46:23 +0000

If I did this correctly, I’m subscribed by either an RSS (Really Subscribed Sometime) or RRS (Really, Really Subscribed). If I did this incorrectly, then I’m being pulled over by a traffic cop for typing on my desktop computer while driving. Or maybe because of the long, long, long extension cord running out the driver’s window leading all the way home.

Comment on Wizards by MormonYoYoMan

MormonYoYoMan — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:50:42 +0000

It’s sad that Tzhett has reached the age when he can’t remember, or even remember what he used to remember. Or as Sgt Snorkel once said to a WAC: “Empty those shirt pockets, mister!”