Good luck and thank you for the combat summary. That is what I’m going to need.
Quick question: are these “trolls” we are hunting JRRT trolls (which are essentially the same as D&D ogres), or D&D trolls (big tall green guys who can regenerate)? Note my character should know such distinctions.
These are Middle Earth trolls, essentially D&D Giants.
Common Trolls: there are plenty of uncommon ones though
Troll : hd 10d12 ac 17 40’ s 21 d 8 c 19 i 5 w 9 ch 6 DV 120’ Percept +2 Athletics +8; Passive 12 Aln : CE Huge cr 5 xp 1800
Att : 2xClub +8/3d8+5 10’ or 2xRock +8/3d10+5 60’/240’ Lang: Troll, Turn to stone with just a ray of sunshine.
Never willingly work for someone. Very long lived. Good night vision. Occasionally up to 3 heads
Troll Berserker : hd 12d12 ac 17 40’ s 23 d 8 c 21 i 5 w 9 ch 6 DV 120’ Percept +2 Athletics +9; Passive 12 Aln : CE Huge cr 7 xp 2900
Reckless Att : 2xClub +9/3d8+6 10’ or 2xRock +9/3d10+6 60’/240’ rest as above.
Rock Troll : hd 12d12 ac 18 40’ s 23 d 12 c 20 i 10 w 12 ch 8 DV 60’ Percept +4 Athletics +12; Passive 14 Aln : CN Huge cr 8 xp 3900
Att : 2xClub +9/3d10+6 or 2xRock +9/4d10+6 60’/240’ prone dc17 str Lang: Troll, HP : Turn to stone with just a ray of sunshine.
Never willingly work for someone. Very long lived. Probably what other trolls were bred from. Good night vision.
Ice Troll : hd 12d12 ac 15 40’ s 23 d 9 c 21 i 9 w 10 ch 12 Percept +4 Athletics +9; Passive 13 Immune Cold Aln : NE Huge cr 8 xp 3900
Att : 2xGreataxe +9/3d12+6 or 2xRock +9/4d10+6 60’/240’ Lang: Troll, Common sometimes Orc
The most fearsome
Black Troll : hd 18d12 ac 18 45’ s 26 d 10 c 24 i 12 w 14 ch 10 DV 60’ ; Percept: +6 Ath: +12 Passive 16 CE Huge cr 10 xp 5900
Att : 2xSword +13/3d10+8 or 2xRock +13/4d10+8 80’/320’ prone dc20 str Lang: Troll, Only -1 in Daylight HP : 250 avg
There are some D&D like trolls but not really trolls at all. River Trolls regen and hate fire and are crazy. Love to live under bridges.
The basic warg is equal to the worg of D&D 5e. But there are also bigger wargs. The ones that goblins might ride. Worse yet are the winter wolves & ancient werewolves.
You might run into the more traditional lycanthrope werewolf also. A later foul creature of Sauron’s devising. Also wererats.
Besides the well known Crebain are the even larger Gorcrows.
All the various giant spiders of course. Almost all evil descendants of Ungoliant.
More legendary creatures include the Minaras, a deerish unicorn like creature. Actual unicorns (one horned magic horses) may be myths. The Alphyn which may or may not be a Hobbit myth. These are large maned magical canines with a weakness for beer & milk.
Rumors of Yetis or snow ogres to the north.
Boggles to the south. Monkey-like thieves.
Strange grey cattish thieves with small manipulative hands and always on bandit masks.
Long necked deep lake dwelling giant creatures in places like the Sea of Rhun.
On the generally good side are the rare Selkies, Beornings, Ursoids (somewhat more humanoid bears but not shapechangers). Lots of overly intelligent animals like ravens, giant eagle, foxes, felines of all sorts, seals, otters & dolphins.
Then there are Elven Horses, swift and very intelligent and extremely long lived.
Elf Dogs think greenish Border Collie. No Disadv in the dark within 10’ and very smart.
Elven Cats or Fey Cats: Warrior (Miregol’s) is one and Missy (Gilraen’s) another.
[a] Something like, oh, I don’t know, this?: Raccoon - Wikipedia
[b] And in the lake just outside the gates of Moria?
I played in a Firefly game at Origins a couple of years ago; I was playing Wash, the Serenity’s pilot. In the game, we discovered a bad guy who was breeding rare animals from the Earth-that-was, so that rich corrupt people could hunt them. Wash encountered an escaped raccoon – a type of animal he’d never seen before. It freaked him out. “It was like a cat…but it had hands for feet!!”
Heh. I loved Wash! Sorry he met his end in the movie.
a) Yep
b) giant freshwater evil squids, I mean watchers, yes.
Help this D&D casual out… How do I read that initiative chart?
The “Init” column appears to be the characters’ initiative modifiers, and it looks like Thoroncir has “advantage” on initiative, which means he rolls two d20s, and gets the better of the two.
The “#” column appears to be the results of our initiative checks (which is a d20 + initiative modifier), sorted in descending order.
Thank you. 1 round of battle with explanations and footnotes took about an hour to post.
Whew! Many thanks, WE. We appreciate it!
Definitely! Thank you so much!
Yes, it’s very enjoyable to read the details of each character and learn what they are capable of. 
Also I remember when my roleplaying group decided to simplify combat where possible.
Thus it would be better for the same monsters to have identical hit points - avoiding conversations like “Which orc have I just hit? How many hp does he have?” 
That is what I basically did this time. All but 1 warg had average HP. Made life easier. For pack animals/monsters that is easy and fair. I probably won’t do that for trolls though. But I don’t expect you to be fighting 10 trolls at once anyway. (At least not yet 
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Your all welcome.
Nice description. It must have taken a lot of time to manage the dice rolling.
That’s one thing I like about Fantasy Grounds. A set of dicerolling tools that lets everyone see what you’ve rolled.
5e.tools has a nice little die roller. I can type in 9d20 as an example and get 9 init rolls. 1 per character & 1 extra for Thoroncir. then 10d20 for the wargs.
It also took d20+d4+10 as an example for the to hits. Then I hit the up arrow and that comes back up so I can roll again.
That reminds me, I forgot that Hejren (@John_DiFool) Portent : After each long rest, roll 2d20. You can replace any attack, save or ability check by you or a creature in sight with one of these foretelling rolls. Please add that to your character, you got it at 2nd level as a Divination Wizard.
I’m trying to clean up my master word document. It is slight corrupt. I noticed I need to verify the age of your character, I believe 66. I need your Height & Weight please.
Felareth stands 3’2" tall in his bare feet and weighs in at 40lb.
He was born in SR1420, which I think makes him 65, as the Fourth Age began in SR1421 (by Gondor reckoning).
Thank you