Homebrew Athasian Half Giant Species Details

Half-giants are one of the newer races to walk upon the burning sands of Athas. The race was created by the magical experiments conducted during the first years of the Age of the Sorcerer-Kings. At the time, the sorcerer-kings were looking to create ultimate warriors to protect their domains. Because of these origins, half-giants have no culture of their own to draw upon, no ancient traditions and homelands to turn to for inspiration.

Typical half-giants stand between 10 and 12 feet tall, weighing about 1,600 pounds. They have human features that are exaggerated in some way. Along with the size gained from their giant heritage comes low intelligence and great physical strength. From the human side, half-giants get an interest in communication and cooperation, curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a general tendency toward kindness. They don’t gather in communities of their own, but instead tend to adopt the cultures of those they admire or have access to.

Half-giants can produce offspring by mating with other half-giants. All half-giants that exist in modern Athas are the descendants of the first magically created half- giants produced in the early years of the rule of the sorcerer-kings. There is no natural way for giants and humans to mate and create half-giant children.

In the city-states, half-giants serve as soldiers, guards, or laborers. In the wilder- ness, they attach themselves to charismatic leaders or communities demonstrating tendencies that they admire. Wherever they are, half-giants have to deal with the fact that they are too big for the world around them, for things built for the use and convenience of humans don’t work well in the hands of half-giants.

Athasian Half Giant Traits

Half giant share a number of common traits with each other.

Ability Score Increase

Your can divide 4 points up into your Strength and Constitution Scores. Your Intelligence and Wisdom scores are reduced by 2. 

Giant's Strength

Your strength can exceed that of a lesser creature. Your maximum Strength Score is 22 instead of 20.

Large Hands

You can use heavy weapons in one hand, instead of requiring two hands for them. You ignore the two-handed, heavy and versatile requirements.

Powerful Build

You count as a large creature when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Giant's Resilience

You can use your reaction to reduce incoming damage to you by up to your Constitution Score.

Languages

You can speak Common. Your voice is always low, making it difficult for most to hear and understand more than a rumble.

Giant's Toughness

You gain 2 hit points at first level, and 2 additional hit points at each level beyond first.

Alignment

You being with one fixed alignment axis that will never change. The other axis may change depending on who you are emulating. 

Age

Half Giants mature at about 24 years of age and can live up to 220 years.