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<blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 7844880" data-attributes="member: 40810">The problem with that is that it reduces all giants to dumb lumbering brutes who just don't know how to fight. Yet they are supposed to have highly sophisticated cultures. So where are their martial arts traditions, there fencing masters, etc.? That might work against brutish hill giants, but it would be a disgrace to clout or storm giants.Those idiots swinging at the empty air all the time while the nimble human makes a fool out of them darting in and out scoring small hit after small hit.Sad truth is that physical combat does not work between opponents that so greatly apart on size, unless one of them is a complete idiot.That might go for a individiual giant, but for every single frost giant warrior in the whole glacial rift of the frost giant jarl? including the jarl himself?At least the human fighter, most skilled swordmaster of the realm must be such a fool himself, given how his fights against kobolds and goblins must be narrated to make any sense.PS: How lovely it was that 4e allowed the tiny pixie barbarian with 24 Str to outclass the goliath fighter with 20 Str at every level <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mirtek, post: 7844880, member: 40810"] The problem with that is that it reduces all giants to dumb lumbering brutes who just don't know how to fight. Yet they are supposed to have highly sophisticated cultures. So where are their martial arts traditions, there fencing masters, etc.? That might work against brutish hill giants, but it would be a disgrace to clout or storm giants. Those idiots swinging at the empty air all the time while the nimble human makes a fool out of them darting in and out scoring small hit after small hit. Sad truth is that physical combat does not work between opponents that so greatly apart on size, unless one of them is a complete idiot. That might go for a individiual giant, but for every single frost giant warrior in the whole glacial rift of the frost giant jarl? including the jarl himself? At least the human fighter, most skilled swordmaster of the realm must be such a fool himself, given how his fights against kobolds and goblins must be narrated to make any sense. PS: How lovely it was that 4e allowed the tiny pixie barbarian with 24 Str to outclass the goliath fighter with 20 Str at every level ;) [/QUOTE]

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