Paul Farquhar
Legend
Why not, like do it yourself? That’s the best way to fit them into your world.
Or if someone wants to play one, let them do it (then take notes and steal the credit).
D&D (2024) How's the adoption of the new Goliath types going?
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Or if someone wants to play one, let them do it (then take notes and steal the credit).
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Why so? The rules say goliaths can develop 5 different abilities, they don’t say there are 5 different types of Goliath.
There is no reason to suppose full size giants don’t interbreed for that matter. The product of giants interbreeding with different types of giant is a potential Goliath origin story.
Corinnguard
Hero
4e had it where the Genasi were just a single race that was capable of manifesting each of the five elements (air, earth, fire, lightning and water) thanks to their time living in the Elemental Chaos. They were born manifesting one element at first but could learn how to manifest another element given enough time. However, the process of switching from one element to another was considered painful as they were literally recreating themselves into that second element.
I had it where the Para-Genasi and Quasi-Genasi were the result of where their genie ancestors lived on their respective elemental plane. For instance, I had it where an Efreet living in the Cinder Wastes of the Elemental Plane of Fire was more likely to have Ash Genasi descendants instead of Fire Genasi.
Fire
Sea of Fire- Fire Genasi
Cinder Wastes- Ash Genasi
Fountains of Creation- Magma Genasi
Earth
The Furnaces- Metal Genasi
City of Jewels- Crystal Genasi
And so forth
Correct.
TorgoTheWhite
Explorer
I like how the results of hybridization can be so unpredictable. Usually diversity coming together creates some sort of advantage but it rarely results as predicted... That's why I love spontaneity and chaos in their background. 2 giant things couple?.... and the results is.... pint-sized? But strong in a different way.
Also, I like plants so much because of the whole quad-donor genome that some of them have
Also, I like plants so much because of the whole quad-donor genome that some of them have
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
Not all of us are that gifted, besides the juices are not following right now.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Plenty of ideas just chucked out into this thread, if you made a thread asking for ideas you would get a whole heap more.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
Ideas and whether they work for you are very different things.
Regardless, I want WOTC to do its job of making me care about their products.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
ForumBob’s ideas are just as likely to work for you as anything WotC can come up with. But are not as likely to work for you as something you create yourself.
It’s not WotC’s job to make you care, it’s their job to make the mass market care.
You don’t like Goliaths? Nobody cares.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
My point is, I want a shared baseline, which I can't do.
It is wotc job to make people want to play their products and mere stat block and character archtype is not a finished product and unlike dwarves and elves with other fantasy world to do the heavy lifting goliaths are theirs alone thus providing clear definitions to help integrate them int world is rather important if they want to put them in the players hand book.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Why? What does it matter if other people play the game differently to you? The lore in my game is mine, I don’t give a monkeys what lore other tables use.
No. It’s exactly like dwarves and elves. This edition fully embraces the “our elves are different” trope. It is no longer “you must know Tolkien like the back of your hand before you are allowed to play this game.” LotR is not a core rule book.
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