From: James Frusetta (gerakkag@wam.umd.edu)
Date: Sun 03 Aug 1997 - 06:20:40 EEST
Nick Brooke wrote:
>> Actually, I thought trolls didn't like to eat undead -- the non
>> ZZ models were icky, and the ZZ creations were sacred.
>Sure, trolls would *never* eat "icky" food, James... :-)
Nonono -- imagine how incredibly awful food would have to be that a
*troll* would consider it icky. Awk.
Seriously, though, it does suggest in Trollpak that a troll'll turn their
nose up at zombie goulash or mashed mummy. Food of last resort --
apparently just about anything else is more desirable than an undead
carcass...?
Michael C. Morrison wrote:
> Trolls should be dangerous and nonhuman and scary and hard to understand,
> but they shouldn't become like gorp, interested in killing and eating
> to the exclusion of everything else. How dull! I know we had a long
> argument about all this in the Digest a year or so ago, so I don't
> want to start a flame war, or even resurrect that discussion, but I
> thought I'd post a counter point to the recent troll posts.
Here, here! The threads are running to gastronomical Marxism -- that
trolls are singularly and overwhelmingly motivated by stuffing their
bellies, to the exclusion of everything else. Yes, eating *is* much
more important for a troll (no question of that!), and trolls that have a
hard time getting ahold of food (e.g., Wild Trolls) are dangerous in
their need to feed.
But civilized trolls may not *need* to spend 100% of their time finding
food and snarfing it down. If they can obtain a steady food source to
support an urban population (fishing, hunting, maybe even agriculture)
then trolls can turn their thoughts to other things -- trade, art,
internal power struggles, and even thinking of humans as something other
than as long pig.
One of the things I'd always wished Trollpak had delved a little further
into was the trollish economy -- just how do they manage to support towns
or small cities? Can hunting alone (or fishing) do it -- is there enough
hunting within a couple of days range?
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