D&D 5E Homebrew Giant Elites

[dave2008]

As I mentioned before in this thread, perhaps I might create one final creature for this thread - the Giant Emperor, an almost-mythical office that hasn't been filled since the fall of Ostoria, and whose rise might herald the return of giants to power and likely cataclysmic wars with dragonkind. Any opinions?

Sounds great! Now would this be a completely new type of giant or just a more powerful storm giant? Personally I would like to see something different. Maybe the emperor has some aspects of 6 types or maybe it is more like the titans from 1e. Regardless, I would love to see what you come up with.

 

[Bitbrain]

Added the flavor text for the Storm Giant King. May still tinker with it a bit - thinking about adding a few Battlemaster maneuvers since most of these, as you can probably tell, have an underlying class base.

As I mentioned before in this thread, perhaps I might create one final creature for this thread - the Giant Emperor, an almost-mythical office that hasn't been filled since the fall of Ostoria, and whose rise might herald the return of giants to power and likely cataclysmic wars with dragonkind. Any opinions?

Ooh, that would be cool!

 

[Demetrios1453]

Sounds great! Now would this be a completely new type of giant or just a more powerful storm giant? Personally I would like to see something different. Maybe the emperor has some aspects of 6 types or maybe it is more like the titans from 1e. Regardless, I would love to see what you come up with.

The latter - it will have aspects of all giants in some way.

 

[Motorskills]

Maybe it requires a representative of each of the tribes to go to the Eye of the All-Father and sacrifice themselves in a ritual which creates a single MasterBlood (or whatever you want to call it). Same stats as the "Emperor", but maybe more thematic?

Edit: Death ritual might not be thematic either, maybe a deep and lengthy trance (Incapacitated), summons the 'Apotheosis'.

Creating an Action Economy BBG could be cool too, takes a different tribal effect after every player acts.

 

[dorv_]

I made an account just to tell you how cool all these are, Demetrios1453 - definitely making my run through SKT more fun for me! I have converted most of them to my DnD Beyond account easily.

 

[Fenris-77]

I read the thread title quickly and was quite baffled as to what, exactly, Hebrew Giant Elites were. It all makes sense now.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I made an account just to tell you how cool all these are, Demetrios1453 - definitely making my run through SKT more fun for me! I have converted most of them to my DnD Beyond account easily.

I actually have most of them up on D&D Beyond. Look in Homebrew monsters, filter for giants and author "trinschler". The old Fire Giant Duke is up there, though.

 

[pogre]

I actually have most of them up on D&D Beyond. Look in Homebrew monsters, filter for giants and author "trinschler". The old Fire Giant Duke is up there, though.

I was wondering if you might link the original post with the list of giants with the posts where you put the profile for each giant.
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[Demetrios1453]

Well, I spent an otherwise boring quarantine weekend playing around with Homebrewery and GM Binder, and I'm now in the process of converting these into a much nicer-looking PDF. I'll keep you all updated...

 

[Demetrios1453]

So... if somehow while organizing my giants into nice PDF form I was inspired to create a few more giants to add to those I already had, I have an interesting question:

If a giant variant were to be built on a rogue chassis, would the ranged rock attack be eligible for sneak attack damage? Rogue sneak attack damage is possible if the weapon used is "a finesse or ranged weapon", which reading up on various interpretations seems to indicate anything under simple ranged, martial ranged, or any melee that has the finesse quality. Since the rocks are never used for melee combat, they would seem to fall exclusively under the ranged category, and, thus, from my reading, be eligible for sneak attack damage.

Any other opinions for or against?

Also: I've slightly revised the Hill Giant Chief, since in comparison to the other giant leaders, it's was a bit bland and needed some minor spicing up. I'll update it once I've finished work on at least one of my new giants...