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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, sometimes turn to the worship of the demon lord Kostchtchie. In the myths of these giants, Kostchtchie was once a frost giant of such tremendous might that he slew a demon lord in single combat
+8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Rock", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Frost giants who struggle to rise in their ordning, along with those who reject Annam and his children
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Grandolpha Muzgardt for many years. He asked Grandolpha to his fortress to give her a gift—a pseudodragon made of chardalyn (a pseudo-pseudodragon, if you will)—and make her an offer she can't refuse. Once
admiration for Grandolpha to foresee her treachery.
Before entering combat, Grandolpha casts stoneskin on herself. Once her duergar;guards come to her rescue, she withdraws from combat and uses her
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
);{"diceNotation":"1d12+3","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Stone"}.Goliaths inhabit the Spine of the World, where their mettle is tested against orc;orcs, ogre;ogres, frost giant;frost giants, remorhaz;remorhazes
mountain strongholds inhabited by goliaths. The former is home to the Skytower (Akannathi) clan, the latter to the Wyrmdoom (Thuunlakalaga) clan. The two groups refuse to get along, and competition between
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Reactive. The giant can take one reaction on every turn in a combat.
Vigilant. The giant can't be surprised.Multiattack. The giant makes four longsword attacks or two rock attacks.
Longsword. Melee
of arms magically orbit the bodies of the titanic, nearly forgotten artisans known as hundred-handed ones. These giants often dwell in remote mountains and seaside cliffs, where they carve their
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
giant;frost giants, remorhaz;remorhazes, ice troll;ice trolls, young white dragon;young white dragons, the treacherous mountain terrain, and the cruel indifference of nature.
Bitter Rivals. Skytower
Shelter and Wyrmdoom Crag are two mountain strongholds inhabited by goliaths. The former is home to the Skytower (Akannathi) clan, the latter to the Wyrmdoom (Thuunlakalaga) clan. The two groups refuse
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, these giants can turn these crystals into scintillating works of art. In combat, rockspeakers can use this same magic to cause their crystals to emit brilliantly colored, intense beams of light than can sear flesh and inhibit enemies.
":"force"} force damage and has the incapacitated condition until the end of the giant’s next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.Stone giants practice rune magic
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
False Appearance. If the wurm is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the wurm move or act, that creature must
’s skyscraping beanstalks. These beanstalk wurms sport leafy growths, sustaining themselves on a mixture of natural photosynthesis and a carnivorous diet.
Cloud-dwelling giants often use
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
issue a combat challenge quickly find these giants’ magical prowess is nearly unmatched.
Destiny Gambler Spell Winnings
Destiny gamblers aren’t content with winning mere treasures
casting a spell of 4th level or higher, it must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence saving throw, or the spell fails and has no effect.Cloud giants rise in the ordning by amassing valuable and beautiful
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
This wooden gavel is small by giant reckoning but nearly the size of a warhammer in human hands. The venn (friend) rune is inscribed in mithral in the base of the haft. Among giants, this item is
used as part of rituals to resolve disputes. The gavel has the following properties.
Arbiter’s Shield. At the start of every combat, attack rolls against you have disadvantage before the start of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"damage","rollAction":"Rock","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.To hold its place or rise within the ordning, a frost giant must routinely face mighty foes in single combat. Some seek
Destroyer.
Vaprak is a ferocious god of strength and hunger also worshiped by some ogres and trolls. He likes to tempt frost giants with dreams of glory followed by nightmares of bloody cannibalism
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
talking. When he does speak outside of combat, he comes across as surprisingly calm and soft-spoken. While swinging his axe in battle, however, he bellows and laughs like a berserker.
Harshnag knows the
North well and has no chance of becoming lost in its wilderness. He’s sensitive to the fact that many small folk have a freshly rekindled fear of giants striding into their settlements.Cold
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
giants and white dragons to put aside their mutual enmity to hunt them.
Glittering Hoards
For their treasure hoards, crystal dragons prize diamonds and baubles that refract light, collections of prophecy
—if only they would stop trying to kill the dragon’s guests.
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A crystal dragon wyrmling is placed in a monastery to learn the teachings of the monks before returning home in three years. The monks don’t appreciate the wyrmling’s pranks.
Cold, Radiant
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
coins
Feature: Undercity Paths
You know hidden, underground pathways that you can use to bypass crowds, obstacles, and observation as you move through the city. When you aren’t in combat, you
of my parents is an elite assassin, a member of the Ochran.
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I learned combat from a kraul.
3
I know a medusa who is stationed in the guildhall.
4
I had a torrid romance with a
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
bargained with; it keeps its side of any bargain it makes, though it might twist the wording of any agreement to suit its purposes. If attacked, or if negotiations fail and you refuse the Fiend’s
additional cards to keep, returning the other to the deck. The magic of the card you keep takes effect immediately thereafter.
Tree. Your skin immediately becomes rough, like tree bark. Your base AC now
Cyclops
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
);{"diceNotation":"4d10+6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Rock","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Cyclopes are one-eyed giants that eke out a meager existence in wild lands. They
are a terrifying threat in combat due to their size and strength, but they can often be tricked by clever foes.
Whelm
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
cries in Dwarvish when used in combat.
Personality
Whelm’s purpose is to slaughter giants and goblinoids. It also seeks to protect dwarves against all enemies. Conflict arises if the wielder fails
to destroy goblins and giants or to protect dwarves.
Whelm has ties to the dwarf clan that created it, variously called the Dankil or the Mightyhammer clan. It longs to be returned to that clan. It
Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
’t be bound for long by brute force, and that many creatures will refuse to serve. As a result, yuan-ti first influence other creatures with the promise of wealth and power. Time and again
are cunning and ruthless tacticians who readily sacrifice lesser yuan-ti if potential victory justifies such losses. They have no sense of honorable combat and strike first in decisive ambush if they
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
scythe. Only a skilled and determined hero can hope to survive single combat with an orc.
Savage and fearless, orc tribes are ever in search of elves, dwarves, and humans to destroy. Motivated by their
while learning to fight, to survive in the wild, and to fear the gods.
The children that can’t endure the rigors of a life of combat are culled from the main body of the tribe, taken into the
Feats
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
You’ve manifested the fiery combat emblematic of fire giants, granting you the following benefits:
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Wisdom score by 1, to a
Ranger
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
civilization—humanoid raiders, rampaging beasts and monstrosities, terrible giants, and deadly dragons. They learn to track their quarry as a predator does, moving stealthily through the wilds and
hiding themselves in brush and rubble. Rangers focus their combat training on techniques that are particularly useful against their specific favored foes. Thanks to their familiarity with the wilds
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their caves and wait for enemies to come to them. Once they enter combat, the giants pursue enemies that attempt to flee. The Blue Bear tribe shares Kayalithica’s belief that civilization is a blight on
Denizens Ten stone giants reside in Deadstone Cleft when the adventurers arrive, including Thane Kayalithica. With the exception of the giant in area 6, who checks on the roc, the giants remain in
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Ashen Grotto The Ashen Grotto is a burial ground for giants. Since it was first established—in a long-ago age when a great empire of giants stretched across the world—giants of all kinds have brought
their dead to be interred within this nexus of giants’ magic. Many giants hold strong beliefs and taboos about the grotto. Some might put aside a deadly enmity with their rivals to defend it against
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Sigil and the Outlands for details). Outlands Giants d4 Encounter 1 Several cyclopes refuse to let the characters pass through a region where they’re constructing a massive ring of beautifully
Giants Giants are common in the Outlands. Many gravitate toward regions influenced by planes corresponding with their alignments, but others seek to find the secret realm of the giant god Annam (see
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11. Disposal Cave The stench of death fills these caves, which the giants visit infrequently. 11a. Faces of Halaster Stone Faces. Giant-carved visages of Halaster cover the walls. Each face has a
different expression.
Corpses. Dozens of humanoid corpses in varying stages of putrefaction, including a few reduced to moldy bones, lie stacked like cordwood against the walls.
The stone giants have
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Krigvind requires a crew of at least twenty giants and can hold up to forty giants, plus a thousand tons of cargo. The Krigvind has Jarl Storvald plus a crew of twenty frost giants (eight males and
empty holds where prisoners, slain whales, and stolen goods are kept. Storvald is returning angry from not having caught a single whale, and that anger intensifies when he realizes that Svardborg has
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Battle on the Crater Rim On the rim of the Star Forge’s crater, four fire giants harry the adult red dragon Akaanvaerd. The five combatants move around the crater’s rim while fighting, effectively
discretion, the dragon might arrive at the Star Forge just in time to complicate (or simplify, depending on how things go) the party’s encounter with Brimskarda. To avoid only the fire giants’ notice, the
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Combat Chris Rallis Combat is prohibited in the keep. If you need game statistics for an NPC, reference the recommended stat block listed on their NPC Card. At your discretion, characters who
antagonize peaceful members of the keep might attract the attention of the soldiers of the keep, of whom there are many (use the Guard stat block). Those who refuse to keep the peace might be arrested and
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and settlements. If the fire giants are forced to leave without the Vonindod fragment, they retreat to the Surbrin Hills and roust four hill giants, returning to Triboar 2d4 + 2 days after their
Attack on Triboar Thousands of years ago, giants and dragons fought a great battle here, during which the giants unleashed an enormous dragon-slaying construct called the Vonindod. Part of the
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Charisma (Persuasion) check. On a success, the attitude of the giant shifts to Indifferent. The other giants demand similar payment; if the character refuses, the Hostile giants begin combat. On a failure
, the Hostile giants begin combat. Fear. A character who knows Giant can try to frighten the giants by telling them about the dragon who lives nearby. The character makes a DC 16 Charisma
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automatically revere their kind’s primary deity, however. Many good cloud giants refuse to worship the deceitful Memnor, and a storm giant dwelling in the icy mountains of the north might pay more homage
The Ordning Each of the main giant races — the cloud giant, fire giant, frost giant, hill giant, stone giant, and storm giants — are related by common elements of history, religion, and culture. They
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of these giants, Kostchtchie was once a frost giant of such tremendous might that he slew a demon lord in single combat, claimed its Abyssal realm for himself, and now waits for other frost giants to
in the chest intensifies, driving these giants into a frenzy. The newly transformed Fiends quickly find that only combat can numb the burning. Fury of Kostchtchie Huge Fiend (Demon), Typically Chaotic
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countryside for food to bring to Guh. The ogres stand ready to serve meals to Guh as they are brought before her. While the ogres and the giants engage in melee combat, the goblins spread out atop the
2. Feasting Hall Chief Guh is found here, along with five male hill giants, four ogres, and six goblins. Oil lamps in iron sconces are mounted to thick wooden pillars that support rafters 30 feet
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entrusts her uncle, Uthor, with command of the garrison. If the stronghold is attacked, Uthor’s primary duty is to protect the princesses, Serissa first and foremost. All other storm giants — the
adventurers herself. If her true nature is revealed, she tries to snatch the Korolnor Scepter (see appendix B) from Serissa’s clutches before fleeing the stronghold and returning to her lair in Anauroch
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
ranged attacks, but giants never perceived a need for mechanical assistance. Even in places where giants have adapted bows or javelins for use in combat, they’ve never neglected the straightforward
Champions of Rock Throwing Giants have a well-deserved reputation as living siege engines — all of them can hurl boulders with accuracy across great distances. Rock throwing — for battle, hunting
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Giants and Other Ancients In the mythic history of most D&D worlds, giants occupy a privileged place—alongside dragons—among the first sapient creatures to walk the earth. Elves and dwarves arose or
—both in history and in their current form—can be an interesting way to develop a campaign that prominently features giants. Ancient History The history of the giants and these other ancient peoples