Homebrew Experimental Stone Giant Species Details

Inhabitants of a Stone World. Secluded caves are the homes of the stone giants. Cavern networks are their towns, rocky tunnels their roads, and underground streams their waterways. Isolated mountain ranges are their continents, with the vast spans of land between seen as oceans that the stone giants only rarely cross.

In their dark, quiet caves, stone giants wordlessly chip away at elaborate carvings, measuring time in the echoing drip of water into cavern pools. In the deepest chambers of a stone giant settlement, far from the chittering of bats or the patrols paced out by the giants’ cave bear companions, are holy places where silence and darkness are complete. Stone takes on its most sacred quality in these cavern cathedrals, their buttresses and columns carved with a beauty that shames the legendary stonecraft of the dwarves.

Carvers and Seers. Among stone giants, artistry ranks as the greatest virtue. They create intricate murals, paint sprawling murals across cavern walls, and indulge in a wide variety of other artistic disciplines. They esteem stone carving as the greatest of skills.

Stone giants strive to draw shapes out of raw stone, which they believe reveal meaning inspired by their god, Skoraeus Stonebones. The giants appoint the tribe’s best carvers as their leaders, shamans, and prophets. The holy hands of such giants become the hands of the god as they work.

Graceful Athletes. Despite their great size and musculature, stone giants are lithe and graceful. Skilled rock throwers are granted positions of high rank in the giants’ ordning, testing and demonstrating their ability to hurl and catch enormous boulders. Such giants take the front ranks when a tribe has cause to defend its home or attack its enemies. However, even in combat, artistry is key. A stone giant hurling a rock performs not just a feat of brute strength but also one of stunning athleticism and poise.

Dreamers under Sky. Stone giants view the world outside their underground homes as a realm of dreams where nothing is entirely true or real. They behave in the surface world the way humanoids might behave in their own dreams, making little account for their actions and never fully trusting what they see or hear. A promise made above ground need not be kept. Insults can be made without apology. Killing prey or sentient beings is no cause for guilt in the dreaming world beneath the sky.

Stone giants lacking in athletic grace or artistic skill dwell at the fringes of their society, serving as the tribe’s outlying guardians and far-wandering hunters. When trespassers stray too far into the mountain territory of a stone giant clan, those guardians greet them with hurled rocks and showers of splintered stone. Survivors of such encounters spread tales of stone giant violence, never realizing how little those brutes dwelling in the unreal dreaming world resemble their quiet and artistic kin.

Experimental Stone Giant Traits

Racial Traits for a Stone Giant

Darkvision

A monster with darkvision can see in the dark within a specific radius. The monster can see in dim light within the radius as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. The monster can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Many creatures that live underground have this special sense.

Initiative Bouns

Stone Giants get a Initiative Bonus of +2.

Skill Bonus

Graceful Athletes. Despite their great size and musculature, stone giants are lithe and graceful. You get expertise in Athletes

Dreamers under Sky. Stone giants view the world outside their underground homes with a watchful eye. You get Proficiency in Perception.

Languages Bonus

As a Stone Giant you can speak, read, and wright common and Giant.

Saving Throws Bonus

As a Stone Giant you have a very thick skull and a very nimble and sturdy body witch helps you on effects that would cause saving throws for DEX, CON, and WIS.

Ability Score Increases

Due to Stone Giants being very sturdy race they have strong body's but a somewhat dull mind.

You get +12 STR, +2 DEX, +6 Con rising the max to 26, But a -8 to INT, -6 to WIS, -2 CHA lowering the max to 16

Age

Stone giants are long lived, many reaching ages of up to 800 years old, and some elders living as long as 1,000 years. The proper age of an elder is at least 600 years old. But because you are a experimental Stone Giant you are immortal 

Height and Weight

Adult stone giants average about 12 feet in height and weigh 1,500 pounds. Stone giants prefer to fight using ranged weapons such as boulders but if forced into melee they wield gigantic stone clubs. As a genetically altered stone giant you are half of this

Creature Type

Elemental humanoid (giant-kin)

Stone skin

As a stone Giant you have very hard skin giving you self a +5 to AC well not wearing armor, as well as being immune to Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned

Damage reduction

As a stone giant you get a damage reduction of -2 to all damage you take.

Magic Resistance

Stone Giants have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.