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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, disguise selfLike giant priests of Hiatea, firbolgs who serve her fall into two distinct roles that parallel Hiatea’s dual nature. At home, primeval wardens tend the hearths and tutor the young
. Primeval wardens who patrol the borders of firbolg communities are fierce hunters who guard against external threats and incursions.
Firbolgs
Distant cousins of giants, the first firbolgs wandered the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Mouth of Madness. The giant is immune to confusion spell.
On each of its turns, the giant uses all its movement to move toward the nearest creature or whatever else it might perceive as food. Roll a
","rollAction":"Fist"} to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"3d8+5","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Fist","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Hill giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
help inspire alterations or expansions to this adventure, and of course to help you create your own adventures and even whole campaigns with giants in prominent roles.
Giants of the Star Forge Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants offers a wealth of resources to help Dungeon Masters craft their own adventures featuring some of D&D’s most enormous monsters. “Giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Adventures Giants often appear in adventures that aren’t about giants, serving as powerful enemies or allies to adventurers. This section offers inspiration if you want to make giants or the realms
they inhabit a central element of an adventure. This section has two parts: “Adventure Models” outlines five categories of adventures to help you think about the role you want giants to play. “Giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
help inspire alterations or expansions to this adventure, and of course to help you create your own adventures and even whole campaigns with giants in prominent roles.
Giants of the Star Forge Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants offers a wealth of resources to help Dungeon Masters craft their own adventures featuring some of D&D’s most enormous monsters. “Giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Adventures Giants often appear in adventures that aren’t about giants, serving as powerful enemies or allies to adventurers. This section offers inspiration if you want to make giants or the realms
they inhabit a central element of an adventure. This section has two parts: “Adventure Models” outlines five categories of adventures to help you think about the role you want giants to play. “Giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Types of Officers If you’d like to explore running a ship, it needs officers to oversee its operations — officers who fill six different roles. Some roles aboard a ship reflect the need for trained
experts to direct a crew’s efforts. Other roles focus on keeping the crew’s health and morale in order. The roles are meant to provide a sense of the types of ability checks useful to managing a ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Types of Officers If you’d like to explore running a ship, it needs officers to oversee its operations — officers who fill six different roles. Some roles aboard a ship reflect the need for trained
experts to direct a crew’s efforts. Other roles focus on keeping the crew’s health and morale in order. The roles are meant to provide a sense of the types of ability checks useful to managing a ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
to live their lives at a slower pace than smaller folk. They often speak slowly and avoid rushing into decisions. Adding potential confusion to their interactions with smaller races, giants are often
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
to live their lives at a slower pace than smaller folk. They often speak slowly and avoid rushing into decisions. Adding potential confusion to their interactions with smaller races, giants are often
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. The Many Meanings of “Giant”
The word “giant” has multiple meanings in English and in the rules of D&D, opening the possibility of some confusion.
As a rule, when this book talks about “giants
throughout this book typically refer to “the Giant language” or “Giant runes,” so there should be no confusion between the language and the creature type.
Other Giants The other creatures of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. The Many Meanings of “Giant”
The word “giant” has multiple meanings in English and in the rules of D&D, opening the possibility of some confusion.
As a rule, when this book talks about “giants
throughout this book typically refer to “the Giant language” or “Giant runes,” so there should be no confusion between the language and the creature type.
Other Giants The other creatures of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
patrons for artists or adventurers, or take it upon themselves to teach smaller folk. The Exiles table offers ideas for adventures featuring exiled giants in a variety of such roles. Many giants who wander
Exile When giants are separated from or shunned by their own kind, they often end up living as exiles among other peoples. Giants who are very low in the ordning might leave their own kind to lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
patrons for artists or adventurers, or take it upon themselves to teach smaller folk. The Exiles table offers ideas for adventures featuring exiled giants in a variety of such roles. Many giants who wander
Exile When giants are separated from or shunned by their own kind, they often end up living as exiles among other peoples. Giants who are very low in the ordning might leave their own kind to lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
The Ring of Winter After reclaiming Svardborg, Jarl Storvald used rune magic to divine how best to find the Ring of Winter — what the frost giants call the Ice That Never Melts. The runes told
Storvald that help would come to him after he staged a series of raids on coastal communities. He sent ships to attack sites along the Sword Coast, and during a raid on Port Llast, the giants captured a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
The Ring of Winter After reclaiming Svardborg, Jarl Storvald used rune magic to divine how best to find the Ring of Winter — what the frost giants call the Ice That Never Melts. The runes told
Storvald that help would come to him after he staged a series of raids on coastal communities. He sent ships to attack sites along the Sword Coast, and during a raid on Port Llast, the giants captured a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
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
fill. If you want to use a giant as a patron for a group of adventurers, you can use the perks, contacts, and roles described in the “Group Patrons” chapter of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything alongside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
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
fill. If you want to use a giant as a patron for a group of adventurers, you can use the perks, contacts, and roles described in the “Group Patrons” chapter of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything alongside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
as balors and hell hounds. Giants are towering beings with humanlike shapes, like cyclopes, fire giants, and trolls. Humanoids are people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
as balors and hell hounds. Giants are towering beings with humanlike shapes, like cyclopes, fire giants, and trolls. Humanoids are people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
pixies. Fiends are creatures tied to terrifying Lower Planes, such as balors and hell hounds. Giants are towering beings with humanlike shapes, like cyclopes, fire giants, and trolls. Humanoids are
people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates, and warriors. They include members of varied species. Monstrosities are unnatural creatures with strange origins, such as mimics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
pixies. Fiends are creatures tied to terrifying Lower Planes, such as balors and hell hounds. Giants are towering beings with humanlike shapes, like cyclopes, fire giants, and trolls. Humanoids are
people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates, and warriors. They include members of varied species. Monstrosities are unnatural creatures with strange origins, such as mimics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
firbolgs, who claim a distant kinship with giants. Hiatea’s priests adopt one of two roles, reflecting the god’s dual areas of concern. Some live within the giants’ enclaves and focus their efforts on
Annam and the Ordning Most giants revere a pantheon of gods comprising Annam and his divine children—a pantheon they call “the Ordning” because it is the archetype of the ordning that structures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
firbolgs, who claim a distant kinship with giants. Hiatea’s priests adopt one of two roles, reflecting the god’s dual areas of concern. Some live within the giants’ enclaves and focus their efforts on
Annam and the Ordning Most giants revere a pantheon of gods comprising Annam and his divine children—a pantheon they call “the Ordning” because it is the archetype of the ordning that structures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Running the Adventure As with the first part of the adventure, you should feel free to make substitutions as you see fit. Note that if the giants here have learned of the fate that befell the hill
giants, or if survivors from the steading reached them, they will be on the alert. Furthermore, the frost giants will organize traps, ambushes, and last-ditch defenses against continuing forays into
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
their savagery. Green dragons, for instance, sometimes use orcs as sentinels or shock troops. Orcs are sometimes attracted to the service of frost giants or fire giants, who then “reward&rdquo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Running the Adventure As with the first part of the adventure, you should feel free to make substitutions as you see fit. Note that if the giants here have learned of the fate that befell the hill
giants, or if survivors from the steading reached them, they will be on the alert. Furthermore, the frost giants will organize traps, ambushes, and last-ditch defenses against continuing forays into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Factions in the North The giants’ plots have far-reaching consequences for the Savage Frontier and the peoples who live there. Giant castles in the clouds have been seen drifting overhead, casting
are justly concerned, and some have important roles to play in events yet to unfold. The Harpers The Harpers are spellcasters and spies who covertly oppose the abuse of power, magical or otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Factions in the North The giants’ plots have far-reaching consequences for the Savage Frontier and the peoples who live there. Giant castles in the clouds have been seen drifting overhead, casting
are justly concerned, and some have important roles to play in events yet to unfold. The Harpers The Harpers are spellcasters and spies who covertly oppose the abuse of power, magical or otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
frost giant jarl won’t allow Nilraun to accompany him on his whale-hunting expeditions. Nilraun spends his idle hours contemplating how to steal the ring while reminding the giants that the Zhentarim
1H). 1A. Feast Hall The frost giants have tracked snow into this great hall, which is illuminated by continual flame spells cast on torches that are mounted to the walls and wooden pillars. These cold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
frost giant jarl won’t allow Nilraun to accompany him on his whale-hunting expeditions. Nilraun spends his idle hours contemplating how to steal the ring while reminding the giants that the Zhentarim
1H). 1A. Feast Hall The frost giants have tracked snow into this great hall, which is illuminated by continual flame spells cast on torches that are mounted to the walls and wooden pillars. These cold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
leader. Realizing that the village couldn’t defend itself against the cloud giants’ bombardment, he led his fellow villagers to the Dripping Caves. In the confusion and panic, Morak left behind his
). 8a. Dining Room This room is strewn with wreckage. A giants’ rock punched through the roof and landed here, destroying a dining table and a pair of long benches. The remains of a bed and a wardrobe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
leader. Realizing that the village couldn’t defend itself against the cloud giants’ bombardment, he led his fellow villagers to the Dripping Caves. In the confusion and panic, Morak left behind his
). 8a. Dining Room This room is strewn with wreckage. A giants’ rock punched through the roof and landed here, destroying a dining table and a pair of long benches. The remains of a bed and a wardrobe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
their reckless creators, but many possess disjointed memories and instincts from their component parts. If wounded, these golems might go berserk and vent their confusion on anything in their sight
exposed insides.
4 Parts serving unintended roles, like a body composed of dozens of hands.
5 Perfect features accented by beautiful stitching.
6 Visible mechanisms, bellows, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
their reckless creators, but many possess disjointed memories and instincts from their component parts. If wounded, these golems might go berserk and vent their confusion on anything in their sight
exposed insides.
4 Parts serving unintended roles, like a body composed of dozens of hands.
5 Perfect features accented by beautiful stitching.
6 Visible mechanisms, bellows, and