> terms for the extra colours?
Greg:
> Someone can check the published sources, but I do not beleive that the =
uz
> can see colors at all. Just light and dark.
> Since the trollkin are inferior in every way, I do not think they can
> either, though the idea of SOME of them being able to do so, and hence
> wearing green scarfs as someone had intheir campaign, is just MGF.
This goes back to RQ2 days (as does my campaign). Trollpak, book one Uz Lore, page 24 has a sidebar on Troll senses which says ...
'Trolls do not see as well as humans. ... They are color-blind, seeing on=
ly
black, white, shades of grey, and red. ... Trollkin and cave trolls have
better eyes, but this is somewhat of a hindrance to them in daylight,
rather than an aid.'
Elsewhere in the same book Trollkin eyes are repeatedly described as 'over-sensitive'.
IMG there is a Trollkin hero resistance leader who gained access to stran=
ge
magics, so these could well include some form of colour vision (that he c=
an
teach to his followers) even if most of his race don't have it. He would=
have been doomed to fail, but the player heroes helped him a couple of times.
RQ3's 'Elder Races' book in 'Elder Secrets' doesn't say anything explicit=
about colour vision, but it does give Trollkin PCs a slightly better Visu=
al
Scan skill than Dark Trolls get. They're still demoralised in sunlight.
John English:
> Don't the Zorak Zorani use red as a sacred colour?
They did in RQ2, which is probably why the Trollpak authors took the line=
they did. RQ3's 'Troll Gods' says that Death Lords prefer blood-red clothing. Maybe it's a ZZ ability, linked to their gain of Fire powers?
The quest to see blue is from a fan publication, The book of Drastic Resolutions, Volume Darkness, p.14 in a piece on Shadows Dance by James Frusetta and Stephen Martin. ' Although most uz are blind to all colors except red ... the trolls of the Indigo Mountain Clans are different.' =
Descendants of the clan founder can enter a special cave, and return able=
to see blue, if they survive. Most other Trolls can't see why anyone wou=
ld
bother.
Andrew
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