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Giant by Poll: Post-crash Poll #5: Treasure
- Thread starter Shade
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I voted "None" because this critter seems too large and too primitive to me to be collecting what we typically tend to call "treasure".
Face it... coins and gems? That would just look like glitterdust to a creature of this size. Don't even think it would be able to pick up a coin from the ground, with fingertips the size of my head...
As for Goods... well, maybe some goods. I could imagine that it might carry a full-size marble statue along - that should be about the equivalent of an action-figure toy in terms of relative size. Paintings? A painting is probably about the size of a postage stamp for our giant, but once it chucks the painting into its bag, together with the boulders and the "toy" cart...
Even if you assume these giants have their own civilization etc., they're going to be carrying items that are made for *their* size. So your adventurers might find some copper pennies the size of wagon wheels. Or a comb consisting of saplings lashed together. Or a 4 foot diameter gem (which creates its own problems...)
Items... well none of the mundane items would be of much use to a normal-sized adventurer. Standard market prices will definitely not apply. For example, a Gargantuan broadsword shouldn't be priced as a broadsword but as a slab of iron or steel. Magic items were *supposed* to resize to fit the wearer in 3.0, although I believe that has been relaxed somewhat in 3.5. Personally, it would stretch my imagination if a Gargantuan giant even *noticed* the ring on the finger of that adventurer it just slew - let along being able to manipulate something so tiny to take it off the adventureer and onto its own finger - to then have the ring balloon in size by a factor of eight.
No treasure, or at least very restricted types of treasure (e.g. nothing smaller than a few inches in diameter) would make much more sense to me.
Face it... coins and gems? That would just look like glitterdust to a creature of this size. Don't even think it would be able to pick up a coin from the ground, with fingertips the size of my head...
As for Goods... well, maybe some goods. I could imagine that it might carry a full-size marble statue along - that should be about the equivalent of an action-figure toy in terms of relative size. Paintings? A painting is probably about the size of a postage stamp for our giant, but once it chucks the painting into its bag, together with the boulders and the "toy" cart...
Even if you assume these giants have their own civilization etc., they're going to be carrying items that are made for *their* size. So your adventurers might find some copper pennies the size of wagon wheels. Or a comb consisting of saplings lashed together. Or a 4 foot diameter gem (which creates its own problems...)
Items... well none of the mundane items would be of much use to a normal-sized adventurer. Standard market prices will definitely not apply. For example, a Gargantuan broadsword shouldn't be priced as a broadsword but as a slab of iron or steel. Magic items were *supposed* to resize to fit the wearer in 3.0, although I believe that has been relaxed somewhat in 3.5. Personally, it would stretch my imagination if a Gargantuan giant even *noticed* the ring on the finger of that adventurer it just slew - let along being able to manipulate something so tiny to take it off the adventureer and onto its own finger - to then have the ring balloon in size by a factor of eight.
No treasure, or at least very restricted types of treasure (e.g. nothing smaller than a few inches in diameter) would make much more sense to me.
Shade
Monster Junkie
Good ol' Conaill, ever trying to apply real-world logic to a whacked out fantasy game. 
Mountain giants have standard. Titans have double standard. Colossal dragons often have much more.
We can always attribute it to "leftovers" stuck in the much from the riverbottoms they traverse, etc.
Mountain giants have standard. Titans have double standard. Colossal dragons often have much more.
We can always attribute it to "leftovers" stuck in the much from the riverbottoms they traverse, etc.
Knight Otu
First Post
There's a reason I didn't vote yet. I'd prefer half standard.
I'd prefer half standard.
