Trollacle is a Pathfinder campaign following the adventures of a set of plucky (and not-so-plucky) adventurers as they flail madly trying to please gods and townspeople.
This Work Has Examples Of:
- Anyone Can Die: Not yet invoked, but a constant threat
- Action Girl: Throughout.
- Bredove
- Skogga
- Marri
- Adira
- Action Mom: Talkash, technically
- Actor Allusion: Skogga, the green teetotaler with an animal companion.
- Adaptational Badass: Rekkart, the oneshot paladin cum innkeeper cum freedom fighter cum Ruling Councilor.
- Aerith and Bob: Bredove, Malendis, Fangnaer, Elijah, and Nathaniel
- Awesome, but Impractical:
- "How old is the X?"
- Permanent Big Skogga
- Being Good Sucks: Constantly debated.
- But Thou Must!: You Can't Fight Fate Because Destiny Says So
- Black-and-White Morality: Eli lives here, thanks to being an angel, kind of.
- Chekhov's Gun: The Giant's Axe
- The Chooser of the One: Belial, hilariously.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Skogga, not that she would agree.
- Damage-Sponge Boss: Belial
- Deal with the Devil:
- Talkash makes a few. Granted, he sees all deals with gods this way.
- Malendis, perhaps with the Fury.
- Death is Reasonably Priced: Ressurection spells cost gold, baby.
- Enemy Mine: The party followed Belial for a while, in the hopes of gleaning information. It does not go well.
- Ensemble Cast
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The town of Seaport
- Exposition Fairy: the Trollacle
- Evil Versus Evil: Malendis Vs Belial, as it turned out.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Eli and Belial. And How.
- Guest-Star Party Member: An endless supply.
- Fangnaer
- Bredove
- Ausk
- Rekkart
- Yenfire
- Honor Before Reason: Eli. Eli. Eli.
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Jerkass Woobie: Talkash has a soft spot for kids, thanks to his past life. - Memetic Mutation: Horse Footsteps
- Mind Rape:
- Eli spent a few days under Succubus mind control.
- Some of Talkash's spells work on this principle.
- Morality Kitchen Sink: Where Talkash lives.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Mommy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Maku's family. They find out.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Talkash, twice. Once when shouting to a dragon that Marri was the Chosen One of legend, and again when releasing and subsequently empowering a
- Psychic Dreams for Everyone: How the adventure began
- Psycho Lesbian: The Fury and Malendis, maybe.
- Screw Destiny: Talkash's driving goal. It's probably futile, though.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: In the climax of the first arc, when Marri fried the half-fiend, Malendis with a critical hit on shocking grasp, thanks to the GM forgetting her invulnerability to electricity.
- Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: The party disagrees on which end they're living in.
- Shout-Out:
- Constantly to Dragon Age.
- Talkash's speech to Iomedae after Eli's Death is one to Two Cathedrals
- The Chosen Zero: Talkash, Talkash, Talkash.
- Xanatos Gambit: Belial is a fan.
- What the Hell, Hero?: To Talkash, after releasing the Protean Goddess.
