Cloud Giant Sorcerer build?

[Wellby]

Want to place a band of Cloud Giants in a recently cleared mountain hold. Do not want to do the work of putting together their leader...any one know where I can find one of these? MM has a band as possessing a 4-7th level sorcerer or cleric. any help appreciated!

also, is there some free database of classed monster builds?

 

[Dandu]

Feats: Eschew Materials, Spell Focus: Evocation, Greater Spell Focus: Evocation.
Spells: Lots of blasting spells.

 

[frankthedm]

Want to place a band of Cloud Giants in a recently cleared mountain hold. Do not want to do the work of putting together their leader...any one know where I can find one of these? MM has a band as possessing a 4-7th level sorcerer or cleric. any help appreciated!

Look up the rules for associated and non associated class levels. The CR of a giant turned caster is hard to fine tune, but probably isn't 1 level for 1 CR.
Related thread http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-le...so-eldritch-giant-confessor-only-cr-20-a.html

also, is there some free database of classed monster builds?

I advanced some monsters back in the day. You'll need to reevaluate the CRs TBH. Frank's Advanced monsters - EN World: Your Daily RPG Magazine

 

[frankthedm]

For a Caster Giant, MMIII has the supposedly CR 15 Eldritch Giant. It has enough useful magic to be a decent stand in for a actual classed giant caster without spending the time to stat a classed giant caster up.

If you don't have the book, WoTC themdselves published a 'Stat Card' With RPG statistics up for free on thier web page. It is VERY abreviated, but it should work well enough in a pinch.
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DDM Card Downloads

 

[Wellby]

wow, that is one cool monster. I think he's going to be sifting through the fane looking for some arcane magic, and the cloud giants are his crew...

very nice!

How would you level him down to say a CR 14? 3/day spells spent?

 

[frankthedm]

wow, that is one cool monster. I think he's going to be sifting through the fane looking for some arcane magic, and the cloud giants are his crew...

very nice!

How would you level him down to say a CR 14? 3/day spells spent?

Quckened Dim Door and Globe are potent abilities, but taking those off still leaves 25HD worth of giant. I'm thinking 4 negative levels. that would saddle it with...

• -4 to hit
• -20 HP
• -4 to caster level

And I'm still not sure if that is enough depending on how well built your PCs are. A lot of MM3 and later monsters were aggressively CR'ed, assuming players were making their characters stronger with non core material.