Against the Giants in the Forgotten Realms?

[Arksorn]

With Chris Perkins's fantastic rewrite of Steading of the Hill Giant Chief for 4E, I am thinking of running an Against the Giants mini-campaign but set in Forgotten Realms.

Has anyone run Against the Giants in the Realms? Where did you set the various giant holdings?

Thank You
Tom

 

[Derulbaskul]

Post-Spellplague Realms? I would definitely go with Returned Abeir. Akanul is another suitable place, as is Luruar. If you chose not to run the frost giant adventure, I imagine it would also work well with East Rift.

Pre-Spellplague Realms? The Silver Marches (aka Luruar or The North).

 

[freyar]

Candlekeep has a FAQ including suggestions about placing a number of famous adventures. These are definitely pre-4e:

3.4.3. How to place G1-3 in the Realms:

Buy "Giantcraft". Send the PCs up to the Ice Spires as the number of giant raids increase. Replace the giant steadings of Hartvale with G1, G2, and G3.

Eric Boyd's ideas for setting G1-3 in the South:

a) There are known hill giants in the Tejarn Hills of Amn and the eastern Small Teeth. I would place G1 there.

b) Frost Giants are unlikely to come this far south. However, if they do, they probably live in the Snowflake Mts., the Cloud Peaks, or the Giant's Run Mts. I would probably pick a remote part of the Cloud Peaks or skip this part altogether.

c) Fire giants probably live in the vicinity of a volcano. That suggests the twin peaks known as Kossuth's Eyes in the Small Teeth might harbor a fire giant hold.

If you do all this, I would suggest linking G1-3 to the Sythillusian Empire troubles. The hill giants are already part of this, simply have the frost and fire giants be part of the monster armies besieging Amn.

If you decide to add D1-3 to this as well, I would have the drow be from Guallidurth (under the Calim Desert, mentioned in DDGttU) or from Karsoluthiyl (off the coast of Baldur's Gate, under the sea floor, mentioned in DDGttU). I would probably pick Guallidurth, and tie its actions back to the Night Wars (see the history section of LoI and EoSS).

 

[S'mon]

Silver Marches/Luruar is the obvious place, but for my Loudwater campaign I'm tempted to place them in the Graypeak mountains - hill giants lower down, stone giants higher up, frost giants in the glacial high peaks, fire giants beneath the mountains; the drow of Ched Nasad may be uniting them against the human lands. My version of the Gray Vale has several small kingdoms ripe to be squelched by giants.

For Silver Marches area the drow of Menzoberranzan could be uniting them against Luruar, which could maybe tie in with the 2012 Menzoberranzan city book.