The only issue I see with most of this information is giants will have to be a huge part of your campaign for you to start worrying about how many giants live together in a settlement versus a steading. Hill Giants. The blunt and direct hill giants equate size to power, meaning anything smaller than them is likely to be looked down upon, both literally and figuratively. There are also dozens of additional types of giants that have appeared over the years. Most notably, many of these types of giants were front and center as the primary antagonists in the 2016 campaign book The Storm King’s Thunder. Among the various types of giants, including cloud giants, fire giants, frost giants, hill giants, stone giants, and storm giants, there exists a structured social hierarchy known as the ordning. Each giant is assigned a rank within this caste system, determining their social standing and relationships with others. Some giants dedicate their lives to excelling in the qualities valued by their society, seeking to rise within the ordning.

Here, players can find giant-themed locations with maps, magic, and adventure seeds to use in your campaigns. from you in a straight, horizontal line. But that’s not what they wrote. “pushed 10 feet directly away from you” was right there.• Storm Strike: It’s on a ConstitutionNo new spells or races were included (which is something we did see in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons) This book follows the accounts of the prolific wizard Bigby and the knowledge he gained surrounding the giants’ roles in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. Let’s explore what you can expect from this sourcebook and how this colossal amount of content will grow your games! Another big selling point of Bigby Presents - Glory of the Giants is the number of new monsters for 5e. From dinosaurs and bag jellies (a personal favorite) to a giant goose and a death giant reaper, there's an eclectic mix of enemies for DMs to use. In fact, the additional monsters provided here may be the standout section of the entire sourcebook. There are even high-level enemies that somewhat fix 5e's problems with high-level monsters.

Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants is a sourcebook for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons (5e) that is wholly focused on giants. This book explores the role and lore of giants in the D&D multiverse and seeks to provide DMs tools to better use giant in their campaigns. As is the formula for 5e supplements, this book contains a mix of information for players and DMs.I personally would have rather seen a couple choice items with a fully built-out rune system, similar to the tattoos in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, to present a more unique offering. But, you can easily poach the “Invoking” mechanic and transfer it to other items to jumpstart your venture into enhancing weapons with runes. This chapter will offer a variety of options and advice for encounters, adventures, and campaigns involving giants, and incorporating new player options and monsters found elsewhere in the book. There’s a lot to love with Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants. Yet the book isn’t without a few issues, especially when you compare it to Fizbans’ Treasury of Dragons. Below we break out what works and what doesn’t when it comes the materials. Pros A +1 ability score increase, cold resistance, and a Reaction similar to Hellish Rebuke. The Reaction targets Constitution saves, and Constitution saves tend to be high, so this may not be reliable. Guile of the Cloud Giant

Overall, the writing in this book is solid gold. It’s probably the best follow-on that Princes of the Apocalypse has yet received. Most of the text is adventure hooks and giant-focused setting design ideas. The book having just a little player-facing content is neither good nor bad to me – it’s fine, but I’m so much more excited for the DM-facing material and content guiding players toward fitting into a giant-focused campaign. These are all fine, and this feat has a lot to offer rogues as well as all other weapon-wielders, though fewer rogues will have great Strength or Con scores to build up the save DC. By spending so much time around giantkind, giant foundlings absorb some of the primeval magic that resonates from these Huge creatures. This results in giant foundlings growing abnormally large for their species. What that might mean for your particular character depends on your character’s species and the campaign world you’re playing in, so talk to your Dungeon Master to establish something fitting. Encounter over 70 new monsters and other enormous creatures to face in the D&D Beyond Encounter Builder.Offers a plethora of tools for Dungeon Masters including lair maps, adventure hooks, encounter tables, treasures, and giant roleplaying inspiration. Stone Giants: Reclusive being who prefer to hide in the wilderness and are surprisingly gentle unless provoked.

With 21 new magic items, the options from this book are plentiful. There’s only one downside: the items in the book all have a rarity of rare or above, meaning you can only start playing with them at later levels and can’t give out too many without your party becoming too powerful. While giant foundlings are said to grow abnormally large for their species, this isn’t reflected in a change to your creature size. While any type of creature could be found by a giant and adopted into their family, here are some optimization tips if you’re looking to build a giant foundling character. Classes The “enclaves” are short, easily digestible adventures that will be easy to slot into campaigns, especially when combined with the encounter tables in the previous chapter. Admittedly, they have some interesting non-combat encounters thrown in there, which is good for when you want to express to your party that not all monsters they encounter need slaying.

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Also, it looks like they’re including options on encounter tables for Monsters of the Multiverse, which is a first, and have done it quite well. The encounter tables all have 12 options, but the last two of each table feature MoM monsters. If you don’t have the book, you roll a d10, but if you do, you can expand your options by rolling a d12. Chapter 2 will feature a section on roleplaying giants and lore for the race's pantheon (called the Ordning), Gods and Religion, social structure, and organizations. Chapter 5: Giant Treasures: This chapter is for DMs only and details unique giant-themed treasures. This includes a section on “Giant Bags” (with tables to determine the contents of a giant’s bag), the “Relics of Giant Realms” (detailing valuable treasures from ancient giant civilizations) and “Magic Items” (with 27 magic items associated with giants).