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Monsters
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
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
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
to Honor (1/Day). If the commander has taken damage during this combat, it gives itself advantage on attack rolls until the end of its next turn, and 1d4 + 1;{"diceNotation":"1d4+1","rollType":"roll
immediately after the commander’s turn on the same initiative count.Sword wraith commanders haunt battlefields, attacking anyone who questions their valor but looking kindly on those who sing
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
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
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
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
; preference for volcanic lairs often puts them in conflict with fire giant;fire giants. Despite their reluctance to reveal themselves to strangers, emerald dragons might approach experienced
surrounding an adult emerald dragon;adult emerald dragon's lair.
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An adult emerald dragon spies on the adult red dragon who killed the emerald dragon’s mate, looking for weaknesses
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.
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These colorful mushrooms are constantly on the move, creeping through the forest floor. No one knows exactly what they are looking for, if anything, or if they’re just spreading their spores.
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Springs come in various sizes from different machines. Because of their spiral shape and ferrous material, they are prized by magic users to
channel energies into spells and potions. Merchants who deal in arcana are always looking for springs found within the ruins of those who came before.
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
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Looking like pumpkin-sized acorns, hill dragon eggs can remain dormant in the ground for a year or more before they hatch. Hill dragon eggs are
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Laughing moss is well-known amongst naturalists and woodcutters, as it’s fairly easy to find when you know what you’re looking for
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
Orc
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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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Frost Giants The characters come upon 1d3 frost giants. If a single giant is encountered, it has a winter wolf companion. The giants are marauders looking for homesteads or caravans to wreck and
plunder. Sea. If this encounter occurs at sea, the party encounters a frost giant greatship (see chapter 7, “Berg of the Frost Giants”) with twenty hostile frost giants aboard. If the characters are
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
possibilities.)
Now you’re looking for something else, perhaps greater reward for the risks you take, or the freedom to choose your own activities. For whatever reason, you’re leaving
sort looking for a fresh start and a new family among the bold Bloodaxes.
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, PersuasionTool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, vehicles (land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Family Most giants live in family groups, typically four to six adult giants from multiple generations and one or two younger giants. The work of hunting, gathering, or cultivating food, as well as
other household tasks, is divided among family members according to their abilities. These groups often include at least one member with exceptional abilities, such as the magic-wielding giants found
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
detected. Any cloud giant or aarakocra simulacrum can place the castle on alert. A cloud giant does this by bellowing “To arms!” at the end of its first turn in combat. An aarakocra simulacrum does it by
. 5 5 cloud giants The giants muster in area 6. One remains there while the other four head upstairs to operate the ballistae (two in area 16, two in area 18). 7 5 griffons If set free by Sansuri, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
them to be quiet, then closes the trapdoor and replaces the crate on top of it. Anyone looking outside sees three fire giants heading for the house. Two enormous hell hounds (change their size to
Large) accompany the giants, each on a leash of iron chain held by one of the giants. The giant who isn’t holding a leash is the commander of the search party. The characters are likely to notice the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
hoist their greataxes when intruders appear. After the first round of combat, it occurs to one of the giants that she should sound the warning horn. She staggers up a flight of wooden stairs to blow
looking toward the southeast contains a wooden brace supporting an ancient red dragon’s horn that the frost giants have etched with runes and made into a musical instrument. The horn weighs 450 pounds. Only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
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
Compendium
- 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Grassland: 1d6 farmers whose homestead was attacked by hill giants, or 1d4 ranchers on riding horses who are heading to a nearby settlement to warn it about giants in the area
Hills/Moors: 1d4
shepherds guiding the remnants of their flock to safety after a harrowing hill giant encounter
Mountains: 1d4 prospectors or miners who had a close call with some frost giants or stone giants and were
Compendium
- 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
No More Hiding If the characters reveal themselves, the giants attack. Otherwise, the giants investigate the exterior of the house. “Keep looking for tracks,” the commander says (all the fire giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
giants and the hobgoblins aren’t happy with drudge work and eagerly hurl themselves into combat if the chance presents itself. The scrap iron was brought down from level 13 and will later be transported to area 14 to be eventually melted down and recast.
3. Foyer Monsters. Two male fire giants (named Druvax and Zelzzarf) and seven hobgoblins are sorting through pieces of scrap iron on the floor and tossing them noisily into piles.
Statues. Two
Compendium
- 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Deadly Hunters Warriors of the wilderness, rangers specialize in hunting the monsters that threaten the edges of 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Deadly Hunters Warriors of the wilderness, rangers specialize in hunting the monsters that threaten the edges of 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Attack on Bryn Shander Twelve frost giants come to Bryn Shander looking for Artus Cimber and the Ring of Winter. Their leader, Drufi, has two winter wolves traveling with her. While nine of her
giants encircle the town, Drufi, the wolves, and two other frost giants (Drufi’s bodyguards, one male and one female) stride boldly toward the southwest gate, demanding to parlay with whoever’s in charge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
brutes and combat fodder — sometimes fighting for the cloud giants’ amusement. A cloud giant might order hill or frost giants to steal from nearby humanoid lands, which it considers to be a fair tax
Cloud Giant Cloud giants live extravagant lives high above the world, showing little concern for the plights of other races except as amusement. They are muscular with light skin and have hair of






