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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8452840" data-attributes="member: 2209">The Giants in Arcana Unearthed were not D&amp;D's traditional giants. They were their own thing and a PC race that started out a big Medium size and you could take a racial class that through rituals grew bigger, at 3 levels in you were large, and at 5 levels in you were huge. They had a big ritual tradition including a specific two set of rituals for turning themselves into a peace stance or a war stance.D&amp;D's giants are a lot norse flavored with the fire and frost giants, and a bit traditional Jack the Giantslayer/Beanstalk with brutish hill giants and intelligent Cloud giants. Stone giants seem fairly straight out of the hobbit with games of boulder throwing.Hill giants are pretty much just bigger ogres following the D&amp;D tradition of similar creatures with different Hit Dice for use at different levels of play. There is a traditional folk lore trope of dumb easily tricked giants who are bigger than what we would consider ogres, so it mostly works. I did like 4e identifying them as earth associated though with their titan type being earth titans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8452840, member: 2209"] The Giants in Arcana Unearthed were not D&D's traditional giants. They were their own thing and a PC race that started out a big Medium size and you could take a racial class that through rituals grew bigger, at 3 levels in you were large, and at 5 levels in you were huge. They had a big ritual tradition including a specific two set of rituals for turning themselves into a peace stance or a war stance. D&D's giants are a lot norse flavored with the fire and frost giants, and a bit traditional Jack the Giantslayer/Beanstalk with brutish hill giants and intelligent Cloud giants. Stone giants seem fairly straight out of the hobbit with games of boulder throwing. Hill giants are pretty much just bigger ogres following the D&D tradition of similar creatures with different Hit Dice for use at different levels of play. There is a traditional folk lore trope of dumb easily tricked giants who are bigger than what we would consider ogres, so it mostly works. I did like 4e identifying them as earth associated though with their titan type being earth titans. [/QUOTE]

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