Homebrew flame giant Species Details

At the highest volcano peaks — far above the slopes where trees grow and where the air is thin and the ash filled winds howl — dwell the reclusive flame giants. Few folk can claim to have seen a flame giant, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. flame giants wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, heat and magma. Their bodies look as if they are carved from volcanic magma rocks and give them great physical power. Their spirits take after the wandering wind, making them nomads who wander from peak to peak. Their hearts are infused with the cold regard of their blistering realm, leaving each flame giant with the responsibility to earn a place in the tribe or die trying.

Driven Competitors

Every day brings a new challenge to a flame giant. Food, water, and shelter are rare in the uppermost mountain reaches. A single mistake can bring doom to an entire tribe, while an individual’s heroic effort can ensure the entire group’s survival.

flame giants thus place a premium on self-sufficiency and individual skill. They have a compulsion to keep score, counting their deeds and tallying their accomplishments to compare to others. Goliaths love to win, but they see defeat as a prod to improve their skills.

This dedication to competition has a dark side. flame giants are ferocious competitors, but above all else they are driven to outdo their past efforts. If a flame giant slays a dragon, he or she might seek out a larger, more powerful wyrm to battle. Few flame giants adventurers reach old age, as most die attempting to surpass their past accomplishments.

Fittest

Among flame giants, any adult who can’t contribute to the tribe is expelled. A lone flame giant has little chance of survival, especially an older or weaker one. flame giants have little pity for adults who can’t take care of themselves, though a sick or injured individual is treated, as a result of the goliath concept of fair play.

A permanently injured flame giant is still expected to pull his or her weight in the tribe. Typically, such a flame giant dies attempting to keep up, or the flame giant slips away in the night to seek the cold will of fate.

In some ways, the flame giants drive to outdo themselves feeds into the grim inevitability of their decline and death. A flame giant would much rather die in battle, at the peak of strength and skill, than endure the slow decay of old age. Few folk have ever meet an elderly flame giant, and even those flame giants who have left their people grapple with the urge to give up their lives as their physical skills decay.

Because of their risk-taking, flame giant tribes suffer from a chronic lack of the experience offered by long- term leaders. They hope for innate wisdom in their leadership, for they can rarely count on a wisdom grown with age.

heat resistance

due to the fact that they are ,made up of flames they have a natural resistance to heat and wont be affected by extremely hot days or places and has some protection from fire attacks 

 

 

flame giant Traits

Goliaths share a number of traits in common with each other.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age

flame giants have lifespans comparable to elves. They enter adulthood in their late thirtys and usually live more than a century.

Size

Goliaths are between 10 and 20 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 500pounds. Your size is goliath.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 15feet.

Natural Athlete

You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.

Stone’s Endurance

You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Mountain Born

You have resistance to cold and heat damage. You’re also acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.