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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1624923" data-attributes="member: 18549">GiantsGiant, meet archer.  Archer, have a potion of Fly.  Archer, meet target practice.Giants are really, really easy to beat if you use decent tactics and choose your spells wisely.  They can chuck a couple of rocks, but the attack bonus on those is usually half what they do with their melee weapons.Also, giants have terrible reflex saves.  A heightened Grease spell will nail them most of the time...even a regular Grease has a pretty good chance.  A standard frost giant only has a reflex bonus of +3.  Trap him inside a Blade Barrier.  And then there's all those area-of-effect spells with range: long...and since you're hanging back to avoid going toe-to-toe...As far as will saves are concerned, a phantasmal killer is likely to nail that frost giant.  Heck, if you can hit him with Hold Monster, your fighters can get in and make trouble.  Symbols have will saves and area effects.  And, of course, Confusion just makes them beat the tar out of each other for a few rounds.Giants are tanks, to be certain, but they've got some easily exploitable weaknesses.  Heck, just slap Stoneskin, Protection from Evil, and Displacement on your barbarian and send him in to beat up the giant for a while.</blockquote>