Dire Troll
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes p. 243
- Size
- Huge
- Type
- giant
- Alignment
- chaotic evil
- AC
- 15 (natural armor)
- Hit Points
- 172 (15d12+75)
- Speed
- walk 40 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Wis +5, Cha +2
- Skills
- Perception +5
- Resistances
- bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks
- Condition Immunities
- frightened, poisoned
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 15
- Languages
- Giant
- Challenge
- 13
- Lineage
- Troll
- Environment
- arctic, forest, hill, mountain, underdark
Traits
Keen Senses
The troll has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell or sight.
Regeneration
The troll regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the troll takes acid or fire damage, it regains only 5 hit points at the start of its next turn. The troll dies only if it is hit by an attack that deals 10 or more acid or fire damage while the troll has 0 hit points.
Actions
Multiattack
The troll makes five attacks: one with its bite and four with its claws.
Bite
Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 6) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) poison damage.
Claws
Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d6 + 6) slashing damage.
Whirlwind of Claws (Recharge 5-6)
Each creature within 10 feet of the troll must make a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw, taking 44 (8d10) slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
recharge
D5
Other data
description
Dire Troll. Trolls kill and eat almost anything—including, in rare cases, other trolls. This cannibalism has the effect of causing the troll to grow to an unusually large size. These dire trolls crave more and more troll flesh to fuel their continued growth.
Dire trolls also increase their size by grafting flesh and organs onto themselves. When a slab of quivering troll flesh is bound against a fresh wound on the dire troll, its regenerative capacity incorporates the new mass into its own musculature. Even more horrifying are the multiple arms, eyes, claws, and other organs that a dire troll tears from its victims and grafts onto itself. Over time, these creatures can accumulate many limbs.
Trolls: Trolls that are nearly obliterated but survive and regenerate from mere scraps of flesh can display bizarre mutations. One of these warped trolls is especially likely to arise if the creature regenerates in the presence of magical emanations, planar energy, disease, or death on a vast scale, or if its body was damaged by elemental forces. These mutated forms can also be produced and shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters.