As far as I know it's a reference to The Hobbit's William "Bill" the troll. ToME was originally Tales of Middle Earth, so I suspect that was a factor. I'd love to hear anecdotes from anyone who's played the older versions, assuming they go beyond "Yep, that's Bill."
Zonk wrote:It's definetely the Tolkien toll. He even had his 'mates' around, once.
Did that make things as horrifying as it sounds?
Maybe I am getting confused, I am not saying he spawned with the other named trolls, but they were definetely around as uniques. If not in the first version of this ToME, in ToMe 2.
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