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Dungeon Master’s Guide
to the blazing heart of a great volcano. With the aid of Moradin, a god of creation, he first crafted four mighty tools: the Starmetal Pick, the Earthheart Forge, the Anvil of Songs, and the Shaping
, and they threw back their enemies and enjoyed an era of prosperity. This young dwarf is remembered as the First King. When he became old, he passed the weapon, which had become his badge of office
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This item first appears to be a sealed iron barrel weighing 500 pounds. The barrel has a hidden catch, which can be found with a successful DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Releasing the
. When certain levers are used, the apparatus transforms to resemble a giant lobster.
The Apparatus of Kwalish is a Large object with the following statistics: AC 20; HP 200; Speed 30 ft., Swim 30 ft
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
makes two slam attacks. The first of those attacks that hits deals an extra 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Multiattack"} damage if the giant has taken damage since its
Reckless. At the start of its turn, the giant can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls it makes during that turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until the start of its next
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Dual Shields. The giant carries two shields, which together give the giant +3 to its AC (accounted for above).Multiattack. The giant makes two Fireshield or Rock attacks.
Fireshield. Melee Weapon
–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Shield Charge"}. The giant moves up to 30 feet in a straight line and can move through the space of any creature smaller than Huge. The
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Siege Monster. The giant deals double damage to objects and structures.
Tackle. When the giant enters any enemy's space for the first time on a turn, the enemy must succeed on a DC 19 Strength saving
throw or be knocked prone.Multiattack. The giant makes two greatsword attacks.
Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Greatsword"} to hit
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
learned your methods first or second hand from such a mystical artisan. Whether you found the giant’s work carved into a hill or cave, learned of the runes from a sage, or met the giant in
person, you studied the giant’s craft and learned how to apply magic runes to empower your equipment.
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
learned your methods first or second hand from such a mystical artisan. Whether you found the giant’s work carved into a hill or cave, learned of the runes from a sage, or met the giant in
person, you studied the giant’s craft and learned how to apply magic runes to empower your equipment.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
be blinded until the start of the hamster’s next turn.The first space hamsters were created by wizards who used magic to shrink giant space hamster;giant space hamsters to wee size, leading
their creators to refer to them as miniature giant space hamsters. The magic also made the space hamsters smarter and telepathic.
These benign rodents are native to Wildspace, though countless numbers of
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Multiattack. The giant makes two Scythe or Soul Bolt attacks.
Scythe. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Scythe"} to hit, reach 15 ft., one target
creature. Hit: 26 (4d10 + 4);{"diceNotation":"4d10+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Soul Bolt", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. If the target has the frightened condition, the giant
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. The devil teaches the giant how to forge with infernal iron and hellfire, enabling the giant to craft weapons that can funnel the souls of the slain to Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. In
Magic Resistance. The hellion has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Taker. A Giant or a Humanoid that is reduced to 0 hit points by the hellion dies, and its
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Storm King's Thunder
Amphibious. The giant can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The giant makes two Greatsword attacks.
Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14","rollType":"to hit","rollAction
":"Rock","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Lightning Strike (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Lightning Strike"}. The giant hurls a magical
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.The largest or most intelligent bullywugs invariably end up leading their kind. A royal is often mounted astride a giant toad or
accompanied by one (see the Monster Manual for the giant toad;giant toad's stat block).Croaked Decree (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Croaked Decree"}. The royal
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Rune. The giant has a death rune inscribed on a giant’s skull in its possession. While holding or wearing the skull bearing the rune, the giant can use its Reaping Scythe action and
, but it turns to dust if reduced to 0 hit points or when the giant dies. If the rune is destroyed, the giant can inscribe a death rune on another skull in its possession when it finishes a short or
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Speak with Rats. The ogre can verbally communicate simple concepts to ordinary rats and giant rats.Multiattack. The ogre makes two Club attacks, two Rat-Tail Whip attacks, or one of each.
Club
sense (rats only), druidcraft, entangle
1/day each: animal messenger (rats only), stinking cloudWhen ogres first moved into the wilds of Eldraine, they encountered all manner of unfamiliar creatures
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
your first turn, provided that the gavel is on your person.
Bond of Amity. As an action, you can use the gavel to strike a point on a hard surface. The first time in the next minute that a creature
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Equipment. She wears a crystal flask around her neck like a pendant. The flask contains a potion of invulnerability, which Brimskarda quaffs on her first turn in combat.Multiattack. The giant makes
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
into the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death
world and steeped themselves in the energy of the Elemental Planes. Over the course of centuries, these giants were transformed into Elementals made of smoke and cinders. Half the size of their giant
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
any Medium or smaller creature. Each time the rime hulk enters another creature’s space for the first time during this move, that creature must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed
of the rime hulk’s next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.Rime hulks are a withered branch of the frost giant family tree, descended from ancient giants
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.These giant skeletons were unearthed shortly before the silver in the mine ran out, inspiring talk that the mine was cursed. When Teocín first joined Itzmin here, she drew on the power of Pazuzu to turn these skeletons into guardians.PoisonBludgeoning
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a creature’s space for the first time during this move, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or take 25 (3d12 + 6);{"diceNotation":"3d12+6", "rollType":"damage
attention of the demon lord Yeenoghu, known as the Beast of Butchery. A cruel hill giant sometimes turns to Yeenoghu for help in expanding the reach of its malevolence. Occasionally a hill giant consumes an
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
age, then turned over to artificers working for the dragonmarked houses during the Last War. House Cannith studied these designs, and in the course of uncovering the secrets of the golems and the giant artificers who made them, House Cannith created the first warforged titans.Poison, Psychic
of Giants, giant artificers built mindless war golems to aid them in their war against the quori. Millennia later, some of these golems were unearthed by adventurers searching for the secrets of that
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Change Shape. Iymrith magically polymorphs into a female storm giant or back into her true form
. She reverts to her true form if she dies. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (the dragon’s choice).
In storm giant form, Iymrith retains her alignment
Monsters
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
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
This golden harp is sculpted in the image of the god Iallanis, depicted as a young cloud giant woman. When a creature comes within 5 feet of the harp, the instrument animates and is capable of
speaking, singing, and playing by itself.
Whenever you attempt to attune to the harp, you must first make either a DC 15 Charisma (Performance) check or a DC 20 Charisma (Persuasion) check to convince the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
leucrotta is what you would get if you took the head of a giant badger, the legs of a deer, and the body of a large hyena, then put them together and reanimated them with demon ichor without bothering to
cover up the stink of death.
The first leucrottas came into being alongside some gnolls during the rampages of Yeenoghu on the Material Plane. While many of the hyenas that ate Yeenoghu’s
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
minions.
Distantly related to oni, ogre;ogres, and other giant folk, irda have shimmering skin that ranges through shades of indigo and sea green. Their innate magic provides them with limited shape
or carrying, turns invisible and teleports to an unoccupied space it can see within 30 feet of itself. The seeker remains invisible until the start of its next turn or until immediately after the seeker makes an attack roll, whichever comes first.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
stop there. The first time the lightning hulk enters a creature’s space on a turn, or if it begins its turn in a creature’s space, that creature takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType
that appears at the head of the bolt as it streams through the air. In rare moments, the hulk coalesces into a bipedal shape resembling a storm giant, but these moments are as fleeting as a lightning
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
lava in its mighty hand and schemes to resume its ancient campaigns of conquest, preferably at the head of a fire giant army.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Surtur is altered by
the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Abundant Ore. Veins of precious metals and ore are more common within 6 miles of the scion.
Desertification. Precipitation is
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
next long rest.
The disease lasts until it’s removed by magic or until the creature rolls the same random effect for the disease two long rests in a row.Base creatures are among the first to
whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass
4
Occupies and animates a corpse or other debris as if it were alive
Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the appropriate type to the target. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by the swarm’s piercing damage dies.Base creatures are among the first to respond to sinister forces at work in a land. As
manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
,” a regisaur is an enormous predator large enough to swallow a giant whole. Fiery veins of elemental energy course through its skin and glow in its eyes and nostrils.
Dinosaurs
When Annam
’s children first began to populate the worlds of the Material Plane, the All-Father created behemoth dinosaurs to live alongside them as companions. The primeval magic used to create the dinosaurs
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
sprouted in place of the first. Enraged, the Goose Mother devoured the witch and rampaged deep into the wilds where it lives to this day.
The Goose Mother lays one golden egg every hour, precisely on the
, you can use the Goose Egg Trinket table to determine the contents of one of the Goose Mother’s eggs that isn’t destined to hatch into a goose or a giant goose (also described in that book).
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, preferably at the head of a fire giant army.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Surtur is altered by the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Abundant Ore
Annam’s grandchildren, and they occupy a privileged place among giants. On some worlds, these scions ruled the first empires of giants until Annam retreated into seclusion. On other worlds, the
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
sleep is troubled by nightmares. When roused, the cradle takes on a vaguely giant-shaped form consisting of air, water, and ice whirling in fury.
If the cradle is destroyed, the scion of Stronmaus
churning elements.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Stronmaus is altered by the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Elemental Portals. Two-way portals
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
of law enforcement or adventurous do-gooders. The sting of the guild’s flight from its first home is still fresh in Delour’s mind.
Indeed, Delour never forgets a slight. He is obsessed
hybrid, a Medium giant rat, or his humanoid form. His statistics, other than his size and speed, are the same in each form. Any equipment he is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. He reverts to his humanoid form if he dies.
Cunning Action. Delour takes the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.