Trolls loving.. trolls? Options

[Kyoto Kid]

...I like the portrayal.

Two other good pics...

The Radical Eco Shaman from the SR4 Core book
The two female dwarf hackers in On the Run.

Alas, there seems to be a lack of good female Dwarf illustrations in earlier edition books. However those scrawny elves are all over the place.

...and please, no more talk about beards on Dwarves (especially the women), we already went through this one in another thread.:grinbig:

[Wounded Ronin]

Coming out of a recent PM convo I have had the epiphany that what we really need is a run centered around an accidental drowning death during a troll bukkake film shoot.

[Tai-Pan]

[Kagetenshi]

Not that we have any evidence whatsoever of what Troll penis size will be, but I'd suggest checking the average penis size of Gorillas before you try to extrapolate based on body size.

~J

[DuckEggBlue Omeg...]

I've always looked at troll/human/elf attraction as more of a degree of masculinity thing rather than a racial thing. Just like some women like the big strong guy with calouced hands and perpetual stubble, and I don't see any reason for male trolls to be ugly rather than the embodiment of those sort of traits, I can see women liking trolls (or at the least being curious about it). Similarly some women go for the weaker more effiminate guys. I think the reverse is also true. Female orcs trolls are just (really) big, tough women, and there are guys that go for that. I'd link the SR Swimsuit Edition thread if it wasn't a dirty, dirty 4th Ed thread.

It may not be particularly scientific, but most players I know don't tend to play sexual frustration out in their character (they do enough of that in real life, HA), and said frustration would probably lead to a higher incident of domestic abuse amongst trolls and orcs, but most people are uncormfortable with racism and domestic violence individually let alone together, and it's a way to explain it away.

One issue I do wonder about is Libido. Elves live a long time, so wouldn't their libidos be naturally lower? Once you get past the 'pretty', being in a relationship with an elf could be very sexually unfulfilling, where as alternatively a troll or orc, lives for a relatively short amount of time. I think this either makes them a more desirable prospect in general, or helps to explain the lack of inter racial mating (sexual compatibility) depending on how you want to play it.

And while I think of it, I can't believe that while discussing dermal deposits noone use the phrase "ribbed for her pleasure".

[Wounded Ronin]

Any time a thread begins discussing penis size it automatically goes to heaven when it dies.

[Mongoose]

I played a runty little troll mage who invested (iirc) 1 point in strength and 2 in body- he really didn't need more, that still made him rather tough and strong for a mage. He tended to go for orc girls if given the chance (more his size, and more of them around, too) but was so "cute" (max charisma and other mental stats) that the GM had big troll women hitting on him on the few occasions it came up.
Then again, being a mage with max mental troll stats (beyond max, actually- he had a cerebral booster) he probably would have had a lot of social opportunities normal trolls lack. Money and brains are as important as looks, so I'm sure even some human women would have found him attractive.

[Tai-Pan]

All right, I'm back. I’m slightly more...Qualified to comment here. No, I can’t claim to be a pre-awakening troll but I am quite… Large… Always have been. Now for a brief Biography.

Well not quite I was born relatively normal. 7 lbs some odd number of ounces I can never remember. By age Six I measured 4’10� and weighed in at slightly over 100 lbs. I was bigger than my first grade teacher let alone the rest of my class. By the end of grade school I had caught both my parents at 5’9� and nearly been thrown out of school for pummeling those who picked on my size. I pretty much coasted through middle school, reading Shadowrun books and smoking pot. By the time I started High School, I was 6’2� and weighed in at about 250-275 lbs. Today I stand about 6’7� and weigh about 350lbs I honestly don’t know what I weigh off hand I haven’t bothered checking for the last year or so… Needless to say I stand out a little bit… How often do you see someone the size of an offensive tackle dealing blackjack in a casino?

The average woman is about, 5’4�. I have a hard time really being attracted to women that small because it feels like I’m going to break them. It’s pretty difficult for me to be able to maintain a conversation without sitting down just so I can actually look at someone. Don’t even get me started with an attempt to dance… I guess the other Option would be to physically lift whomever I was speaking with up to my eye level but I really don’t think that would go over well.

Trolls I’m sure have many of these same problems trying to peruse a mate of the other metatypes, only magnified due to their dermal armor and even larger stature.

[thorr]