D&D 5E Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

[Snarf Zagyg]

What the hell does Bigby have to do with giants. Feels like a random D&D name to pull out for this book.

Completely agree. Then again, what else are you going to do with the D&D equivalent of Quentin Tarantino, except for hands?

….not that there’s anything wrong with that.

 

[BookTenTiger]

What the hell does Bigby have to do with giants. Feels like a random D&D name to pull out for this book.

They should call it "Big by Bigby."

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I would love to see Irda, which might happen as a DL tie-in

Also Ocean Giants - 20 ft long merfolk with whale flukes

include Oni too and some other ‘ethnic giants’ from different real world cultures from the Hecatoncheires and Gigantes of Greece, through the Kuafu of China, the Kapre of Phillipines, the crystalline Cherufe of Chile to the Fachan, Cewri and Ettins of Britain

Never heard of Ocean Giants, sounds cool.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Literally no 5e settings have any of the Dawn War Mythos. Do you perhaps mean the first world, or the great wheel?

Exandria and the Forgotten Realms do have the Dawn War Mythos. Its mentioned in the dmg as well.

 

[SkidAce]

What the hell does Bigby have to do with giants. Feels like a random D&D name to pull out for this book.

Giant Hands?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Exandria and the Forgotten Realms do have the Dawn War Mythos. Its mentioned in the dmg as well.

I’m pretty sure FR has no such thing, and if it does it’s because they kept it from 4e, and Exandria wasn’t made by wotc so it can’t really be a case of them shoehorning anything.

Keeping something from a previous edition and publishing a world they didn’t build don’t equate to “forcing it into every setting”.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Bigby's Big Book of Big Boys

 

[bedir than]

"They don't call me Smolby" Bigby, on why he's doing Giants

 

[The Glen]

What the hell does Bigby have to do with giants. Feels like a random D&D name to pull out for this book.

If you were going to use any wizard for giants Gargantua would be the obvious choice

 

[Parmandur]

Worth noting that Bigby has already been used as a secondary narrator, in Tome of Foes. They seem to be building up the Citadel of Eight as a cosmic force...

 

[Tonguez]

Never heard of Ocean Giants, sounds cool.

3..5 Monster Manual 2

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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I love it hope they make an appearance.

 

[DarkCrisis]

What does a Wizard named Bigby have to do with Giants?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

So a list of 20 possible lore heavy choices just as Fizban's has.

1. Storm Giant
2. Cloud Giants
3. Fire Giants
4. Frost Giants
5. Stone Giants
6. Hill
7. Firbolgs
8. Goliaths
9. Ocean Giant
10. Fog Giant
11. Death Giant
12. Eldritch Giant
13. Trolls
14. Orgers
15. Oni
16. Cyclops
17. Fomorians
18. Irda
19. Titans
20. Verbreeg

Thoughts? Any that shouldn't be on the list or any that should be added?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would like to know more about these "orgers." Will they get lots of illustrations?

You're also missing sand giants and I feel like there was a 3E giant that looked like an orca.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What does a Wizard named Bigby have to do with Giants?

It's a pun they're scared of committing to. I keep offering them "Bigby's Big Book of Giants," but they aren't biting.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

What does a Wizard named Bigby have to do with Giants?

What does Mordenkainen have to do with the various topics covered in Tome of Foes?

Bigby is a wizard, and a wizard is a fundamentally a scholar. Even if there's not an obvious thematic throughline from Bigby to Giants like there is with Fizban to Dragons, there's no reason the guy couldn't just have enough of a scholarly interest in giants and giant history to write a book on the subject.

 

[DarkCrisis]

What does Mordenkainen have to do with the various topics covered in Tome of Foes?

Bigby is a wizard, and a wizard is a fundamentally a scholar. Even if there's not an obvious thematic throughline from Bigby to Giants like there is with Fizban to Dragons, there's no reason the guy couldn't just have enough of a scholarly interest on giants and giant history to write a book on the subject.

Lets not pretend that WotC didn't use the name because "LOL Giants and BIGby".

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So a list of 20 possible lore heavy choices just as Fizban's has.

1. Storm Giant
2. Cloud Giants
3. Fire Giants
4. Frost Giants
5. Stone Giants
6. Hill
7. Firbolgs
8. Goliaths
9. Ocean Giant
10. Fog Giant
11. Death Giant
12. Eldritch Giant
13. Trolls
14. Orgers
15. Oni
16. Cyclops
17. Fomorians
18. Irda
19. Titans
20. Verbreeg

Thoughts? Any that shouldn't be on the list or any that should be added?

+17 additional varieties of giant goat.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Lets not pretend that WotC didn't use the name because "LOL Giants and BIGby".

So the title also happens to make for a decent pun. And?

There doesn't need to be a preexisting lore connection between Bigby and Giantkind to justify the character writing a book on the subject - it certainly helps, but it isn't required.