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<blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 2360165" data-attributes="member: 1131"><p>Greetings!</p><p></p><p>I was just thinking about how cool Ettins are. Ettins are not *too* stupid, they're big, strong, tough, and have *two* heads! Imagine the conversations that such creatures must have with each other over everything!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Then, of course, one can expand and theorize about possible cultures for such creatures. Imagine what a whole town of these things might be like!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I was dming a session in my campaign recently that featured an encounter with a small group of Ettin Barbarians, and a fight developed over the party crossing a river while the ettins were wading in the river, trying to fish.</p><p></p><p>An upcoming encounter features a strange monastery of Lawful Evil Ettins who are fighters, clerics, and fighter/clerics of an evil tyrant god that preaches and demands loyalty, discipline, unity, and ruthlessness. The encounter will perhaps have a desperate struggle high up on the galleried entrance to the Great Temple, where the players will encounter a phalanx of elite Fighter/Cleric/Legendary Dreadnought ettins. It should be entertaining! Of course, there's also a chance that the players might take advantage of an opportunity to negotiate and or/infiltrate the strange ettin monastery in the form of some kind of embassy seeking to trade and negotiate.</p><p></p><p>What do you think of ettins? Do you use them often? What kind of cultures and social detail do you provide for them? What kind of class combinations and environments do you like to use with ettins?</p><p></p><p>Semper Fidelis,</p><p></p><p>SHARK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SHARK, post: 2360165, member: 1131"] Greetings! I was just thinking about how cool Ettins are. Ettins are not *too* stupid, they're big, strong, tough, and have *two* heads! Imagine the conversations that such creatures must have with each other over everything!:) Then, of course, one can expand and theorize about possible cultures for such creatures. Imagine what a whole town of these things might be like!:) I was dming a session in my campaign recently that featured an encounter with a small group of Ettin Barbarians, and a fight developed over the party crossing a river while the ettins were wading in the river, trying to fish. An upcoming encounter features a strange monastery of Lawful Evil Ettins who are fighters, clerics, and fighter/clerics of an evil tyrant god that preaches and demands loyalty, discipline, unity, and ruthlessness. The encounter will perhaps have a desperate struggle high up on the galleried entrance to the Great Temple, where the players will encounter a phalanx of elite Fighter/Cleric/Legendary Dreadnought ettins. It should be entertaining! Of course, there's also a chance that the players might take advantage of an opportunity to negotiate and or/infiltrate the strange ettin monastery in the form of some kind of embassy seeking to trade and negotiate. What do you think of ettins? Do you use them often? What kind of cultures and social detail do you provide for them? What kind of class combinations and environments do you like to use with ettins? Semper Fidelis, SHARK [/QUOTE]
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