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Marc
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 14 Jan 2015 : 19:50:22
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there's the hephaeston giants
I prefer giants based on mythology, Norse, Greek gigas, divs, fomorians, goliaths, nephilim, and so on. Those based on every type of environment are boring, except eldritch and death giants. Eldritch could be a type of fomorians. |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Jan 2015 : 19:56:02
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Originally posted by Marc
there's the hephaeston giants
Ah, hephaeston giants are from Mystara. That's the campaign setting I'm least familiar with. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
12094 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jan 2015 : 12:27:42
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Originally posted by Shadowsoul
While reading Giantcraft, love it BTW, it said that one of the myths about giants is that they are rare which means since it's a myth, they aren't rare so it got me thinking. Why haven't giants across Faerun now, established towns, cities, or even communities?
Are they not as numerous as they once were to the point where you have small scattered communities of them that live in caves and such? I could really see Frost Giants establishing a city in the north while Fire Giants take up residence in volcanoes.
If you had a large quantity of giants form a comparable size city to a human city, how much would they decimate the nearby population of food? Just a thought. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
12094 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jan 2015 : 12:33:42
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Originally posted by Marc
there's the hephaeston giants
I prefer giants based on mythology, Norse, Greek gigas, divs, fomorians, goliaths, nephilim, and so on. Those based on every type of environment are boring, except eldritch and death giants. Eldritch could be a type of fomorians.
Just adding, I like me some eldritch giants too. That was an interesting addition, and I'd like to see the various races taken in some other directions magically. It doesn't have to be powerful magics either.... a mirror image on a giant is pretty powerful.... a giant using enlarge person can be interesting as well.... displacement, stoneskin, etc... can all be interesting when applied to them and a party isn't expecting it. |
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Shadowsoul
Senior Scribe
Ireland
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Posted - 15 Jan 2015 : 14:12:15
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Originally posted by sleyvas
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Originally posted by Shadowsoul
While reading Giantcraft, love it BTW, it said that one of the myths about giants is that they are rare which means since it's a myth, they aren't rare so it got me thinking. Why haven't giants across Faerun now, established towns, cities, or even communities?
Are they not as numerous as they once were to the point where you have small scattered communities of them that live in caves and such? I could really see Frost Giants establishing a city in the north while Fire Giants take up residence in volcanoes.
If you had a large quantity of giants form a comparable size city to a human city, how much would they decimate the nearby population of food? Just a thought.
Well they can plant crops as well as hunt larger beasts. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 16 Jan 2015 : 13:47:53
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Originally posted by Rymac
I would think that when a certain age category is reached, an elemental path/progression makes sense: Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. Maybe throw in Wood and Metal for the Oriental Adventures crowd?
I've combined those two into 'Alloy', which is a combination of the other four elements mixed together. In Alchemy, you need all four elements to create 'life', thus Alloy = life.
There is also 'void', which is the lack of any element. So you have four prime elements, and two psuedo-elements (not to be confused with the existing 'para' and 'quasi' elements).
The funny thing is, in a game built on the concept of 'leveling' - and with the introduction of the tier system in 4e (which I actually like) - you would think they would have evolved the game along these lines. Build very basic classes and races, and then have everything else be templates/Prestige Classes (they amount to about the same thing, mechanically). PCs would power-up by 'level', but NPCs would do so by age (for example, a 40 year old human blacksmith would be the equivalent of level 4). Instead of 10,000 rules, you have a few rules and 10,000 options. Here's hoping 5e does this, moving forward. |
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Giant Empires of the past.
