D&D 5E Firbolg charactera

[Warpiglet]

I had no interest in Firbolgs as characters until I did.

anyway looking at a nature or war cleric possibly.

I am curious to hear about others’ Firbolgs. I had been thinking about a variant human cleric for some time and somehow looked at Firbolgs.

my only misgiving is their appearance in some art.

are they blue? Gray? Are they covered in fur?

I cannot find good info related to appearance

 

[Hoffmand]

I had no interest in Firbolgs as characters until I did.

anyway looking at a nature or war cleric possibly.

I am curious to hear about others’ Firbolgs. I had been thinking about a variant human cleric for some time and somehow looked at Firbolgs.

my only misgiving is their appearance in some art.

are they blue? Gray? Are they covered in fur?

I cannot find good info related to appearance

I would look at pre 5E art for firbolgs. I hate what 5E has done to them. I know nothing about what 4E has done to them. But I really liked them in earlier d&d. Mainly as NPC’s or monsters. They were very cool and badass. And much taller in general.

 

[prabe]

I had no interest in Firbolgs as characters until I did.

anyway looking at a nature or war cleric possibly.

I am curious to hear about others’ Firbolgs. I had been thinking about a variant human cleric for some time and somehow looked at Firbolgs.

my only misgiving is their appearance in some art.

are they blue? Gray? Are they covered in fur?

I cannot find good info related to appearance

The art in Volo's is roughly consistent with prior depictions, IIRC. Kinda gray-sh blue with purplish-reddish highlights, reddish-purple hair.

I had a firbolg druid for a while in one of my campaigns, and she was a good deal of fun (the player was a blast but had to bow out due to scheduling). I have ideas percolating in my head for a couple of others (Light Cleric, Ancient Oath Paladin) but I have way more character ideas than I'll ever have the opportunity to play at this point. I also somewhat altered the lore for them for my world, but that's not super-relevant.

 

[Hoffmand]

Here are a few photos I liked from earlier editions. They were taller in previous editons. But could alter their size for periods of time. And they were slightly magic resistant. And could Not physically lie, one of the novels had a firbolgs through great will force out a lie and it was so strenuous and obvious it was ridiculous and not worth the effort. But

 

[jgsugden]

5E Firbolgs and prior Firbolgs are so different that I would not consider the same race. There is artwork to guide what a Firbolg might look like in most campaigns, but as there is no set description, you might play around with it quite a bit. I have a Firbolg PC waiting in the wings that I've decided would be either an albino or someone that has undergone argyria intentionally to change their skin to bluish/silver..

 

[Warpiglet]

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Here are a few photos I liked from earlier editions. They were taller in previous editons. But could alter their size for periods of time. And they were slightly magic resistant. And could Not physically lie, one of the novels had a firbolgs through great will force out a lie and it was so strenuous and obvious it was ridiculous and not worth the effort. But

5E Firbolgs and prior Firbolgs are so different that I would not consider the same race. There is artwork to guide what a Firbolg might look like in most campaigns, but as there is no set description, you might play around with it quite a bit. I have a Firbolg PC waiting in the wings that I've decided would be either an albino or someone that has undergone argyria intentionally to change their skin to bluish/silver..

i think the truth is that they have changed greatly and though the lore is new and fine, I feel funny about the new look

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

They look more like wood giants now than the Firbolg. I cant stand the new ''cow-person'' look they gave the 5e Firbolg, even worse, every depiction of them by fans is the same Firbold, with a different costume or appearing gender. Not that the old look for them was that good neither, but at least its not an anime mix of The Laughing Cow and Legolas!

I would have gone with a smaller version of this:

or a larger version of Trudvang's dwarf (with the ape-ish posture and tatoos)

 

[jgsugden]

When I do a google search for Firbolg images, I see a fair amount of variation in the art people have worked up for their firbolg PCs.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

When I do a google search for Firbolg images, I see a fair amount of variation in the art people have worked up for their firbolg PCs.

I'm not sure, I've looked again, and it really seems to me its always a blue/grey ish dude with a goatee or short beard, red-to-dark brown hair, large floppy ears and bovine nose.

There's a little more variety with the female presenting models.

Then again I'm also against the idea that dwarves MUST have a beard and all elves MUST be skinny.

 

[Fenris-77]

The droopy pointy goat ears don't do anything for me. There's nothing wrong making alterations to the picture in the book though. I prefer the bigger beards in the older art, but the more fae look in the newer art. Make it what you want I guess. I'm not getting hung up on the art.