Two-headed troll
T two-headed troll 
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| Difficulty | 12 |
| Attacks |
Claw 1d6, Claw 1d6, Bite 1d10, Bite 1d10 |
| Base level | 10 |
| Base experience | 211 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | -3 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 1200 |
| Nutritional value | 300 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A two-headed troll:
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| Reference | SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line3154 |
A two-headed troll, T, is a type of monster that appears in SLASH'EM, SlashTHEM and Hack'EM. It is somewhat stronger than a normal troll, and can revive from its corpse like all trolls.
A two-headed troll has two claw attacks and two bite attacks, owing the latter attacks to its second head.
Generation
Randomly generated two-headed trolls are always generated hostile.
Two-headed trolls may appear among the hostile T that generate in throne rooms, as well the monsters randomly generated by looting a throne while confused and carrying gold (provided there is no chest on the level).[1]
Two-headed trolls can generate among the random T that are part of the second quest monster class for Barbarians, and make up 6⁄175 of the monsters that randomly generate on the Barbarian quest.[2]
A two-headed troll has a 1⁄2 chance of being generated with a ranseur, partisan, glaive, or spetum, with an equal probability of each polearm.
Strategy
Though a two-headed troll has worse AC than most other trolls and its attacks are individually slightly weaker than the base troll, they still move at the same speed as an unhasted and unburdened character, and the extra bite attack gives it a higher damage range that makes it more dangerous to fight in melee. Damage reduction from negative AC can make their attacks much easier to weather - much of the same strategies that apply to other trolls also apply here, including disposing of a two-headed troll corpse.
