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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raduin711" data-source="post: 2030263" data-attributes="member: 15303">Ok, think I should explain a little bit first.This is an adaptation of a race that appeared in the 2nd edition Dark Sun campaign.The Half-Giants are humans and giants mixed together into one race.  They aren't a naturally occuring race.  They were engineered by evil sorcerer kings to create a race of powerful warriors and laborers to do their bidding.  This was the result.-Half-Giants don't really have a culture of their own, because they are such a young race.-HG's have a peculiar psychology; they tend to latch on to others and do as they do.  If they are successful, they will continue doing whatever it is they are doing.  If they are rejected, or can no longer perform whatever function they served, they move on.  They tend to be rather detatched, mimicking one group of people or one person and going on to the next when it becomes inconvenient.-HG's change their attitudes and outlooks as often as they change who they follow.  -HG's tend to be rather childlike.  They tend toward kindness, curiousity, cooperation and communication.The old rules for 2E half giants are follows:-Half Giants switch alignments as a reaction to severe changes in his environment.-Half giants double hit die rolls, no matter what class he belongs to.  HP bonuses are applied after the die roll.-Equipment costs double-+4 str, +2 con -2 Int -2 Wis -2 ChaHalf Giants used to range from about 10 to 12 feet tall.  This would put them squarely in the Large creature category... however Giants nearly across the board were shortened by 6 feet.  The Hill Giant was only shortened 5 1/2 feet, and the storm giant was only shortened 5 (the biggest and the smallest types of giants)Averaging 6 feet wasn't big enough, so I got the average percentage lost of height from all the giants, and applied that to the half giant, which basically teetered them on the edge between large and medium, thus the Goliath approach.</blockquote>

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