Daily Art Preview

[Jhaelen]

BTW, what the heck is a balhannoth?

Well, here's the link to the article about the mini.

Here's the picture from the MM4 art gallery. I don't have MM4, but I vaguely remember reading something about it in some preview article or something. IIRC, it had several anti-caster abilities, an anti-magical aura or something to that effect...

 

[Hussar]

Hrm, Earth Giants. cool.

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I always did like Engle's work. Looks like a Hill giant in the background.

 

[A'koss]

Fire Giants are now up!

Very nice, but I kinda miss WAR's rendition though...

 

[Dunamin]

Those fire giants are pretty awesome, though I wish they'd use more reference than a staircase to get a sense of their size. Preferably a human-sized humanoid of some sort - loved the old gold dragon picture where a couple of orcs tried to sneak away from it.

 

[Jim Williams]

Very nice, but I kinda miss WAR's rendition though...

Here ya go:

http://www.waynereynolds.com/Fantasymain/14.jpg

 

[Gargazon]

Wow, the Fire Titan looks slightly... Balrog-ish. I like

It also looks like that, unlike their Earthy cousins, the Fire Giants have the statblock for a warrior and a wizard, which is good.

 

[Hussar]

Well, hopefully fire giants will finally be huge rather than just large. 'cos that's how they're being drawn. Large ends at about 15 feet or so. Those things are a heck of a lot taller than 15 feet.

 

[frankthedm]

Well, hopefully fire giants will finally be huge rather than just large. 'cos that's how they're being drawn. Large ends at about 15 feet or so. Those things are a heck of a lot taller than 15 feet.

Sorry, the mini for the Titan version has been made and it is huge. those other two are just going to be large.

Wotc had some internal discussions on giants, with at least one employee wanting them to start at huge, but it was decided instead there would be a race of huge titans as upgraded giants. The Minis game has some influence on that decision IIRC.

That was sad news to me. I am an advocate of having giants start at huge.

 

[Hussar]

Sorry, the mini for the Titan version has been made and it is huge. those other two are just going to be large.

Wotc had some internal discussions on giants, with at least one employee wanting them to start at huge, but it was decided instead there would be a race of huge titans as upgraded giants. The Minis game has some influence on that decision IIRC.

That was sad news to me. I am an advocate of having giants start at huge.

I can see why they would want giants as large. I don't like it, but, I do understand. If you have huge giants, the battle maps and adventure maps are incredibly boring. Far and away too much empty space.

Think about it, an encounter with 5 Huge creatures needs at least double their area in order to fight - we're looking at chambers 10 squares by 9 squares at the minimum, and likely a lot larger. It's pretty hard to play on the table.

I just wish they'd stop drawing them so bloody big.

 

[A'koss]

Here ya go:

http://www.waynereynolds.com/Fantasymain/14.jpg

While that one's nice, I was thinking about this one... http://www.waynereynolds.com/D&D eberron/WOTCGallery2A/SecretsofXendrix03.jpg