The Running of the Trolls

A yearly Pride event in World of Warcraft to benefit the Trevor Project

FAQs:

When:

Saturday, June 29th, 2024 on Feathermoon-USThe run leaves the starting zone at 6pm Pacific Time/9pm Eastern Time/1am GMT.We strongly suggest showing up earlier as there’s always a bit of a beach party going on for guild invites. There will be people gathering that evening/early afternoon. We will provide notice of when we are online on social media/discord.

Where:

The Running of the Trolls is held exclusively on Feathermoon-US in the Troll starting zone, right where you log in on a fresh troll on the Echo Isles.We’ll be swimming, running, and taking a zeppelin on the way to Silvermoon!Please note: If you are on a trial account or otherwise don’t have Exile’s Reach finished, new characters will need to make their way to the Troll starting zone on the Echo Isles. Please keep this in mind when deciding when to make your characters!
Additional Note Higher level characters may be phased into ‘present day’ Tirisfal Glades. You can find Zidormi @69.4,62.8 to send you to the ‘past’ version of Tirisfal where lower level runners will be once they run out of Undercity!

How To Join:

Simply log in on June 29th before run start time and join us! You can just roll a level 1 Troll, and we’ll have invites to our 3 guilds, no need to do anything else!If you need to make your way to us on the beach we'll be waiting for you!Unfortunately, we cannot facilitate Cross Realm invites for anyone at all. Cross Realm characters are unable to join our guilds and some of the chat channels, and we don't have the time to coordinate everyone wanting to bring their own characters via anchoring them to the realm by players on Feathermoon. Also, we worry that the lower level players could wind up phased into the wrong realm and not have as much fun.We also cannot provide transportation or summons to the beach as the race crew will primarily be on low level characters!It's really best to roll a new character on Feathermoon or its sister realm Scarlet Crusade and you don't have to stress about missing out on being able to say hello to everyone!

What Hair Color Should I Pick?:

Unlike our Gnome runs, we feel that you should have a say in what hair color you decide to give to your Troll!
Please pick whatever color makes you most happy! Pick something from the Pride flag that means something to you, pick a color you love, pick a color that makes your Troll look great! In the end, we’ll wind up with a rainbow!

Can I be a Zandalari instead?

Troll is a Troll and all Trolls are welcome!Do remember that you will have to make your way to the starting point, but as long as you're respectful and kind the same as all other players, we want you here!

What about [Lists other races here]?

We can't stop you really, but the fun of the event is doing something together from all over in a unifying sense with a lot of other people rather than being "that one person".

Are Toys, Mounts and Other Items Allowed?

We try to limit some of the more spammy items like the ones that change the surface area to all fel and so on, but we think it's really fun to use the rainbow and disco toys!.If you are with the pack it's more fun to run on foot but it's totally understandable to want to use a mount to check for stragglers or to catch up.Use your best judgment, keep the environment fun for everyone, and remember that everyone's idea of fun is different!

Classic Version?

I currently don't have any plans to host this. I will update if there is one in the future.

After Party?

It is more challenging than the Gnome Run, but some people like to go kiss as many Alliance Leaders as possible between Silvermoon and the Stormwind Throne!

Can I Stream/Post Videos/Share Other Content of the Run?

Please share the run with your audience in whatever way you'd like! We love sharing your stuff!
We just have to ask: if you want to stream or make a video, we just ask that you share a link to the fundraising page, and make clear where personal/fundraiser donations are going and that you behave with respect to participants.

Hashtag?

#TrollRun2024

Racing Guilds:

Race Guilds are our substitute for Raids, since low levels can’t form raid groups- also, forming hundreds of players into raid groups is a headache no one on Earth wants, and someone is pretty likely to get left out.The guilds exist year round, but are mostly unmanned; you’re welcome to stay or to come back each year!
We ask that, even while it's hectic or there are multiple guilds, you try to join guilds that we've confirmed, for a few reasons.Some people donate based upon how many people show up and it's easier to guesstimate a number by looking at numbers online though some of our tools have gotten a bit wonky over the years for counting. Also, in the past, people have tried to share fake donation links or fake information.Please understand that there’s only a few of us and a lot of you! If we aren’t inviting for a certain guild at any particular moment, please don’t get your heart set on a certain guild name, or ask us to move you all around.PLEASE NOTE: Trial accounts cannot be invited to guilds!

Race Guilds are our substitute for Raids, since low levels can’t form raid groups- also, forming hundreds of players into raid groups is a headache no one on Earth wants, and someone is pretty likely to get left out.The guilds exist year round, but are mostly unmanned; you’re welcome to stay or to come back each year!
We ask that, even while it's hectic or there are multiple guilds, you try to join guilds that we've confirmed, for a few reasons.Some people donate based upon how many people show up and it's easier to guesstimate a number by looking at numbers online though some of our tools have gotten a bit wonky over the years for counting. Also, in the past, people have tried to share fake donation links or fake information.Please understand that there’s only a few of us and a lot of you! If we aren’t inviting for a certain guild at any particular moment, please don’t get your heart set on a certain guild name, or ask us to move you all around.PLEASE NOTE: Trial accounts cannot be invited to guilds!

If you whisper one of us that are spamming chat with instructions the word "INVITE", it will (hopefully) auto trigger our addon to get you a guild invite.If we miss you, please re-whisper us as we can get swamped with whispers!We will get you! Asking to get friends invited to chat is more likely to get overlooked than a whisper directly from someone to one of us, we hate making you feel overlooked!

Guild names:

- Running of the Trolls
- Troll for Initiative
- Trollkyo Drift
- Trolladega NightsThese are our only guilds and if we add more we will make announcements on our social media and Discord!

Tabards

Since we're making a rainbow with our hair, the tabards are as close to the Trans Pride flags as we can get, and we've had them that way since creation of the event in honor of Leelah Alcorn.As a reminder, because of changes to how tabards work in Retail from Legion's pre-patch going forward, we can't trade you a tabard because they're now Bind on Pickup. You can, however, mail yourself a tabard from the guild vendor from your main! There's a mailbox right in the starting area that's super easy to get to.

Route:

From the spot where you log in as a freshly spawned troll to the zeppelins. From there we’ll take the zeppelin to Tirisfal Glades and run through the Western and Eastern Plague

This map is handdrawn but accurate: