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* ''[[Shadowrun]]'s'' trolls are pretty much the embodiment of the [[Mighty Glacier]] -- massive, powerful, built like a tank, but slow both physically and mentally. They also tend to have random horns, warts, and bony ridges all over their body. So they're big, ugly, mean... and pretty much the best guys to have on your side in a fight.

** In fairness, a smart troll is smarter than the vast majority of humans and a troll looker is likely to have more than a few non-trolls trying to chat her up, if only out of curiosity. It's mostly just players realising that putting those points into strength instead mean they can hit harder with a fist than with a shotgun to the face.

** It's stated that trolls are literally ''slow-witted''. They can be quite intelligent, but they just don't think as quickly as a human. The fact that the smartest humans are "smarter" than the smartest trolls is based on this deficiency, rather than lower intellect.

*** The tie-in novel ''Changeling''—the protagonist of which was a ''brilliant'' [[Was Once a Man|rich kid who'd goblinized]]—went into detail on this. Once Peter adjusted to troll thought processes, it was clear that he was still pretty damn sharp (even if he did spend a lot of time [[Obfuscating Stupidity|playing it down]]).

** Not quite polygamous; they have four different kinds of romance (I am ''not'' going into that here), and while they believe in finding satisfying relationships in all four quadrants, they also try to stay monogamous within a quadrant, and having the same kind of relationship with more than one person is still a no-no. As is being in more than one quadrant with the same person simultaneously.

* In ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' it's [http://yafgc.net/?id=1051 used] as one of [[Fantastic Slurs]]:

** ...or, y'know, as a [[Shaped Like Itself|reference to the actual (monstrous) trolls]].

* ''[[Pibgorn]]'': [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2002/12/18/ Troll?] Hardly! [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|Bridge substructure symbiont.]]