D&D General did giants ever get the spotlight?

[Mind of tempest]

That's reasonable, but some associate it with stubbornness, brutish behavior, and dim wits. Neither is true of course, it is just different perspectives. There is nothing inherit to earth that has anything to do with wisdom or intellect.

I am not getting the dim wits at all, do you have a term of phrase for it or something?

 

[dave2008]

I am not getting the dim wits at all, do you have a term of phrase for it or something?

dim wits = diminished (dim) metal abilities (wits)

 

[Mind of tempest]

dim wits = diminished (dim) metal abilities (wits)

I know what that means just not how earth has anything connotations to it.

 

[dave2008]

I know what that means just not how earth has anything connotations to it.

How does earth have connotations to anything? Poetry probably? Connotations are just made up. Some people see dirt as "stupid" and some see it as "wise." There is nothing true there, it is just personal preference / perspective.

Personally I think @Voadam pretty much covered it up thread in post #55

 

[Yora]

AD&D used to have mountain giants, which were superior to hill giants.

Somehow mountain giants were not carried over to BECMI and 3rd edition, and now hill giants stand alone as lesser giants with nothing to contrast them to.

 

[Mind of tempest]

AD&D used to have mountain giants, which were superior to hill giants.

Somehow mountain giants were not carried over to BECMI and 3rd edition, and now hill giants stand alone as lesser giants with nothing to contrast them to.

I have somehow heard of the mountain giants it is a shame we lost them.

 

[GuyBoy]

I think most of us in this thread agree that giants have had a pretty decent shout of stardom in D&D’s history, from Nosnra’s steading onwards.
Ogres, now.......that is a criminally under-used monster IMHO. A classic evil brute that only got truly great recognition in the Hook Mountain Massacre from Paizo, and an exemplar in the 1E DMG treasure tables (“a pair of particularly, large and ferocious ogres” if memory serves)

Where’s the love for ogres?

 

[Yora]

I think there were just too many. It's not just the mountain giants that were discontinued, I believe.
The six types of giants that have become standard already make things pretty crowded.

 

[the Jester]

AD&D used to have mountain giants, which were superior to hill giants.

Somehow mountain giants were not carried over to BECMI and 3rd edition, and now hill giants stand alone as lesser giants with nothing to contrast them to.

Mountain giants were in the 3e MM2.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I think there were just too many. It's not just the mountain giants that were discontinued, I believe.
The six types of giants that have become standard already make things pretty crowded.

they just seem kinda lacking in use they are just at the corners of the world, with dragons it at least makes sense.

I think most of us in this thread agree that giants have had a pretty decent shout of stardom in D&D’s history, from Nosnra’s steading onwards.
Ogres, now.......that is a criminally under-used monster IMHO. A classic evil brute that only got truly great recognition in the Hook Mountain Massacre from Paizo, and an exemplar in the 1E DMG treasure tables (“a pair of particularly, large and ferocious ogres” if memory serves)

Where’s the love for ogres?

insert shrek joke here.
I think it is the fact they were made to all be dumb brutes that really stops them.
oni could also be so much better.