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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Age Giants are long-lived compared to humans, though not as much as their semidivine ancestors. Their life spans generally correspond with their place in the ordning, with hill giants living about
shows the average life span of each kind of giant within the ordning. (Other creatures of the Giant type live about as long as humans, on average.) In keeping with their long life spans, giants tend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Living the Giant Life Giants are exceptionally long-lived compared to humans, but none are immortal. A peaceful death from old age is a common occurrence among cloud giants and storm giants and isn’t
. Giants live at a slower pace than humans do. In the space of four heartbeats for a man, a stone giant’s great heart beats just once. Giant mothers stay with their child for longer than human mothers do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Social Structures Though giants are not numerous on most worlds (at least compared to various Humanoid peoples), they are generally social creatures who prefer to live with others of their own kind
chapter 3) to flesh out the details of encounters with these giants. Giant Children
Generally, it’s a good idea to avoid situations where you treat a giant child as a monster. While even giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Giant Foundling Kai Carpenter A giant foundling is used to a larger world Though you aren’t a Giant, you grew up among giants. Maybe you were an orphan taken in by a sympathetic family of stone
perspective on life. Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation, Survival Languages: Giant and one other language of your choice Equipment: A backpack, a set of traveler’s clothes, a small stone or sprig that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Rejecting the Ordning Some giants reject the ordning, in part or entirely. This rejection most commonly takes one of three forms. First are giants who hold themselves to a different standard than the
one their kind traditionally values. These are often giants whose ranking within their kind is low. For example, a contemplative cloud giant might pursue knowledge rather than wealth, or a weak frost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
demonstrating just how superior a giant’s strength is compared to smaller creatures. Such a boss might run a protection racket, a group of highway robbers, or a kidnapping ring. A giant boss might even take to
Giant Patrons Many of the adventure hooks throughout this book involve giants asking characters for help or hiring them to carry out a task. This section outlines long-term patron roles giants might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
workshop to the south. A simple furnace—its light and heat humble compared to the Star Forge—fills one wall of the southern chamber. Heaped in a pile near the furnace are metal building materials, gigantic
of the road is a broad-shouldered giant with dusky skin and flaming red hair. She wears intimidating armor made of jagged lava rock and wields a searing scepter.
“None shall pass,” the giant intones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
through feats of strength. Glorium’s leader is Tyrza Bonebreaker (chaotic good, human gladiator wearing a belt of giant strength [frost giant]), the daughter of the gate-town’s previous ruler, Flatnose
to accommodate a frost giant longship, the watery gate reverses its tide twice each day, allowing boats to voyage to the chaotic plane and back again. Though the swirling portal allows Glorium to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Roleplaying a Giant Giving a giant a personality trait, an ideal, a bond, and a flaw helps to create a more vibrant NPC. You can also give a character background to a giant. The noble background, for
example, could apply to a cloud giant. Giant Personality Traits d8 Personality Trait 1 The brutality of my peers is a relic of a bygone era that should be stamped out. I seek a more enlightened
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. In the filth-ridden depths of her heart, Lysaga knows that Strahd would never accept her as his true mother, nor could she bear his rejection. As a result, she has never confronted him. She would
passive Perception 13
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Giant
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)
Shapechanger. Baba Lysaga can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of insects (flies), or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-shaped head. This humanoid contraption is attached to an arrangement of ropes and pulleys that make it look like a giant marionette.
When announcements or rallying cries need to be made, the top of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
their backs and in their canoes. Second, they tend the giant lizards that are used to drag or carry especially heavy loads through the mere. Third, they do most of the hunting, fishing, and gathering
establishment of a vast dragon empire seem like remote possibilities compared to the real danger of tangling with another dragon, any of whom would gladly murder Voaraghamanthar and Waervaerendor for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
work camp to the castle on their backs and in their canoes. Second, they tend the giant lizards that are used to drag or carry especially heavy loads through the mere. Third, they do most of the
potential return and the establishment of a vast dragon empire seem like remote possibilities compared to the real danger of tangling with another dragon, any of whom would gladly murder Voaraghamanthar and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
picked clean of flesh by the giant spiders that lurk in the web-draped stalactites overhead. In return for victims and adoration, Lolth grants signs of her favor, such as great success during a slave
. Eilistraee is a god of moonlight, song, dance, and, most important, the rejection of the evil ways of Lolth. Drow who feel like outsiders in their society, who react with disgust to the evils perpetrated by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
bottom of the subterranean vault is 80 feet below where the characters stand. Creatures. Drawn by the occasional animal that accidentally falls into the ravine, three giant rats lurk in the rubble
Strength (Athletics) check; on a failed check, the victim drops back into the cavity. Creatures. Each time a creature falls into a cavity, the noise is 10 percent likely to draw 1d4 giant rats from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
as Waterdeep seduced by the air cult’s promises of power. From the backs of hippogriffs or giant vultures, they survey the land around Feathergale Spire, guarding the entrance to the air cult’s hidden
melee attack.
Howling Hatred Initiate Howling Hatred initiates are attracted by the cult’s philosophy of non-attachment and the rejection of material things, unaware of the cult’s true nature. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
their own interests so long as they place the security and sanctity of the Hosttower and the cabal above all else. When not rallying to defend their home, wizards of the Arcane Brotherhood act like
passive Perception 11
Languages Abyssal, Common, Giant, Infernal
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Spellcasting. The simulacrum is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Undercommon. The nine duergar guards in area X3 spend 1 round rallying before pouring out of the barracks to confront the foes. X3. Upper Barracks A low stone table flanked by stone benches dominates this
-stained furs, its head against the north wall. In a shallow niche above the bed is a bas relief of a giant, scowling duergar clenching its teeth. At the foot of the bed is a flat-topped iron trunk sealed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to the idea. Sharna is a formidable combatant compared to most folk in Phandalin. She also keeps four bodyguards (thugs) on hand to guard the exchange, travel to the mines, rough up “uncooperative
the days since the destruction of the manor, farmers and herders on the outskirts of Phandalin have reported seeing giant-sized footprints, both humanoid and canine, as well as missing animals. No one