A Fragmentary History of Trollworld
A Fragmentary History of Trollworld
The world around Khazan comes to life in this work. From before the ancient days of the Wizard Wars, through the epic of the wizards Khazan and Khara Khang, and through the rise and rule of Lerotra'hh, the beloved and dreaded Death Goddess, this tale has it all. This is the history of Ken St. Andre's Trollworld, including his take on a few of the kindreds that populated his Tunnels and Trolls campaigns for over thirty years.
Introduction by Ken St Andre
One of the great things about role-playing is that it lends itself to many forms of subcreation. The players make up their characters. The Game Masters make up adventures including lands, people, and plots. The game designers make up whole worlds and rule systems, which are nothing more than ways of representing those worlds with numerical and verbal tools. Virtually any form of art or knowledge can be utilized in role-playing, whether it be drawing pictures, modeling clay, writing stories, creating architecture, singing songs - everything that works in our mundane earthly world also has a place in fantasy game worlds.
I am such a creator, and Trollworld - my home setting for Tunnels and Trolls - is such a world. A world, even an imaginary world, is a vast thing - a potentially infinite thing. Every person can look at Trollworld differently, and they can all be right. In this book I will offer up little pieces of Trollworld - glimpses through different windows at an infinite place that exists not only in my imagination, but also in the imaginations of all T & T players. If you get something out of these fragments, that's great. I'm pleased. If you don't, then oh well - no one hits the target on every shot.
This offering is something of a chronology of Trollworld. This is the chronology of my Trollworld - Ken St. Andre's Trollworld. Your Trollworld may be different. And that's cool, too. The chronology is fragmentary because I can't possibly cover everything that ever happened on Trollworld. This is fantasy history made practically painless.
H'aaarrrggghhh!
Khenn Arrth
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