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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 7882052" data-attributes="member: 6687260">Things you could do with Goliaths to make them more present in a campaign setting.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There was a Goliath invasion several years back.  No one knows exactly what they were after, nor why they mysteriously returned to their homeland.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The emperor has a special elite bodyguard (Like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard" target="_blank">Varagian Guard</a>) - they are recruited solely from goliaths in the mountains and they answer only to him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is a prophecy that one day a great leader will come and unite the goliaths and they will sweep all before them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All over the south there are Goliaths turned to stone centuries ago, as a result of a devastating magical spell in some war that is only vaguely remembered.  Goliath pilgrims regularly walk the roads, visiting these statues of their ancestors.  It is said one day these statuses will return to flesh and pass on their lost secrets to their descendants.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The world is full of Goliath adventurers.  Ostensibly they are searching for the great horn of their people long lost.  They have no idea where to find it however, so they just mostly just wander and get into adventures.  These adventures make up a huge song cycle which is one of the most famous in the world (even if Goliaths do say that the bards who translated it into common missed the real poetry of it).  Bards regularly follow Goliaths around when they see them, hoping to learn a part of the song cycle that no other bard knows yet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Goliaths are cursed to be nomads.  Once they ruled a great empire, but the gods cursed them to ensure they could never do so again.  So now they must wander (if they stay in the same place more than a month they start to go mad) - they probably don't consider this a curse.</li> </ul>One of the things I really like about Goliaths is that they feel like something of a blank slate (it's a gift for worldbuilding).  But it doesn't make it surprising that they're not all that popular.It would be good to see some kind of published setting that makes them front and centre - but I guess they're not part of the SRD so it would probably have to be WOTC - and it would have to be a new setting - which seems extremely unlikely.</blockquote>

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