Homebrew Giant Species Details
Giants dwell in mountain tops across the world, congregating in steadings built of rough timber or in clusters of well-defended mud-and-wattle huts. Their skins are tan from lives spent lumbering up and down the hilly slopes and dozing beneath the sun.
In a hill giant’s world, humanoids and animals are easy prey that can be hunted with impunity. Creatures such as dragons and other giants are tough adversaries. Hill giants equate size with power.
With nothing else to occupy them, hill giants eat as often as possible. A hill giant hunts and forages alone or with a dire wolf companion, so as to not have to share with other tribe members. The giant eats anything that isn’t obviously deadly, such as creatures known to be poisonous. Rotten meat is fair game, though, as are decaying plants and even mud.
The hill giants’ ability to digest nearly anything has allowed them to survive for eons as savages, eating and breeding in the hills like animals. They have never needed to adapt and change, so their minds and emotions remain simple and undeveloped.
Giant Traits
Your Giant character has certain traits deriving from your immense size and strength.Ability Score Increase
Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
Age
Giants mature a lot faster than humans, reaching adulthood around age 14. They age noticeably faster and rarely live longer than 150 years.
Alignment
Giants inherit a tendency toward chaos from their freedom and independense and are not strongly inclined toward good.
Size
Giants are much larger and bulkier than humans, and they range from 10 to well over 150 feet tall. Your size is Large.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
Darkvision
Thanks to your Giant blood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Menacing
You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
Relentless Endurance
When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
Savage Attacks
When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
Languages
You can speak Common and Giant. Called Jotun by those who speak it, was the ancient language of most giants. It was one of the oldest active languages. It was believed that the language shared some of its roots with Common and Thorass.
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