Giant rock throwing, one or two hands?

[Voadam]

When a giant throws a rock is this with both hands or can he hold something in the other hand?

For my game this is relevant for fire and frost giants who throw large rocks.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Complete Warrior has a rock-throwing prestige class for giants that links in with some new feats. It will probably help answer your question.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

Personal opinion: Let them do it either way. Two-handed gives the giant a whopping 1 1/2 Str mod to damage, but the giant cannot iterative attack unless he has Quick Draw. We just assume that giants carry ~3 couple rocks in the off hand during combat (and a few more in the satchel), and they drop them if they are pullig out their melee weapon.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I can't remember the specifics offhand, but the giant prestige class bumps up the weight categories that a giant can throw with the Throw Anything feat. So using two hands to hurl a 500 pound boulder just got a whole lot nastier!

 

[kjenks]

Complete Warrior also has a section on improvised weapons that can help determine light, one-handed or two-handed status of hurled weapons. Throwing a two-handed weapon is a full-round action, so no iterative attacks, even with Quickdraw. Keep in mind that maximum range is five range increments, no matter how strong you are.

 

[Hypersmurf]

In 3E, it specified that no matter whether a weapon was two-handed or not, you always throw a weapon with one hand.

(However, the same line is absent from 3.5.)

-Hyp.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Complete Warrior also has a section on improvised weapons that can help determine light, one-handed or two-handed status of hurled weapons. Throwing a two-handed weapon is a full-round action, so no iterative attacks, even with Quickdraw. Keep in mind that maximum range is five range increments, no matter how strong you are.

Nifty. Do you have a page # for that?

 

[dcollins]

When a giant throws a rock is this with both hands or can he hold something in the other hand?

In classic AD&D the pictures always showed giants hoisting a rock in both hands.

The picture in the 3.0 MM shows one being picked up one-handed. Other than that, it seems to be not specified.

 

[shilsen]

Nifty. Do you have a page # for that?

Pgs.158-9.