Behold the Mighty Frost Giant!

[BASHMAN]

Since it won't be in the first MM, I figured I'd try to take a stab at it. Enjoy!

Frost Giant Raider Level 11 Elite Soldier (1 Action Point)
Large Natural Humanoid 1200 XP
Initiative -1 Senses: Perception +12
HP: 165 Bloodied: 82 Vulnerability (Fire 5) Resistance (Cold 10)
AC 25 Fort 29 Ref 20 Will 22
Speed: 8
m Large Greataxe (Standard, At-Will)
+14 vs. AC; 2d10+9 dmg (Crit 29+d10), Reach 2
M Stomp (Minor, At-Will) Only works on opponents that are Prone
+14 vs. Reflex; 2d6+9 dmg
M Follow Through (Immediate, At-Will)
When the Frost Giant makes an attack with his Greataxe, as an immediate reaction, he may make another attack with the great axe to another enemy within reach.
M Blood Frenzy (Immediate, Encounter)
Make a Large Greataxe attack when first bloodied as an immediate reaction
R Hurled Boulder (Standard, Encounter, Recharge 5,6) Burst 1
+14 vs. Reflex; 2d10+9 dmg, Range 20 Max 40
Miss : Target takes half damage
B Frost Breath (Standard, Encounter, Recharge 6) Close Blast 3
+10 vs. Fortitude; 2d6+5 Cold Dmg and enemy is knocked prone and slowed
Miss: Target takes half damage
Alignment: Evil, Languages: Giant? Common
Skills : Perception +12, Intimidate +10, Athletics +23
Str 29 (+14), Dex 9 (+4), Wis 14 (+7)
Con 21 (+10), Int 10 (+5), , Cha 11 (+5)

Equipment: Large Coat of mail, Large Battleaxe

 

[frankthedm]

interesting, but without seeing other giants, is not this jumping the gun slightly?

 

[Incendax]

interesting, but without seeing other giants, is not this jumping the gun slightly?

Not really relevant. The OP can post up whatever monsters he wants to make and name them whatever he'd like. We can either take them, or throw them out. That's the fun of exclusivity.

 

[Wiman]

I like it, and as for jumping the gun.....might as well the gun is at least a couple months away and everything we have might have changed by then Work with what we got even if everything we have ends up totally wrong.......yup thats standard operation for me and mine.

 

[frankthedm]

I guess 'jumping the gun' was less what I had in mind, more of "Does not that damage output seem really high compared to other monster of similar level?"

Even for an elite, it looks like it will strip HP like a 3rd edition giant.

 

[BASHMAN]

I guess 'jumping the gun' was less what I had in mind, more of "Does not that damage output seem really high compared to other monster of similar level?"

Even for an elite, it looks like it will strip HP like a 3rd edition giant.

Noted, & fixed.

Now the real test-- get 12 1st level PCs and see if they can bring it down...

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey there!

Its hit points should be 218.

Also doesn't the Greataxe multiply strength bonus x4 on a crit? So that would be 2d10+36 on a crit.

 

[Bold or Stupid]

That looks pretty cool. i thinks it's ac is a little low for a Soldier (who are supposed to be hard to hit) so i'd change him to a brute as he's a high damage tough monster.

On the how it would do against 12 level ones. I'd say he drops some one every round but the first so it take 13 rounds for him to kill them. I'd say they stand a chance of winning if they have healing and such, so he seems balanced right to me. Good work sir.

 

[Dalamar]

Greataxe doesn't multiply Str damage on a crit, it just happened to be exactly that on the one example we had. The more likely thing is that it does max damage on crit (as normal) plus an additional die of damage.

 

[eleran]

It looks good. I would however question whether Giant Cleave should be a small m attack, and therefore eligible for opportunity attacks, or a big M attack.

But I like what you've done here so far.