Trolls are not big and stupid as many would have you believe. Not so long ago they lived among us and used their cunning magic to make themselves look like us humans.

They lived in the mountains with their livestock. Their caves were magnificent, richly decorated with silver, gold, and precious stones, and their tables were always lined with delicious food. In Sweden there is an expression for this: "Rich as a troll".

Trolls and Princesses is a "worker movement" game. You control one of four troll clans, and in order to win the favor of the troll king, you must try to impress him. Players earn favors (in the form of victory points) by doing what trolls usually do: trade surrogates, "hire" people, tear down church bells, kidnap princesses, build their lair, and use troll magic. At the end of the game, the player with the most victory points can crown himself the supreme leader of the troll clans.