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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 7739900" data-attributes="member: 6855057">How about not having to deal with the hassle of opening the door to accommodations for Large size? How about not presenting blatant power-gamer fuel? How about not returning to the days of old when a race being pigeonholed as good for absolutely only one thing and terrible at everything was somehow supposed to be good game design?Seriously, I have no real opinions on the half-giant either way; I thought they were basically an even cheesier version of the half-orc, made only to fill the Big Dumb Bruiser niche, despite the Mul already filling the Bruiser niche pretty well. In fact, I think it's only the fact half-giants were such combat monsters that kept them from picking up a similar hatedom to kender and xaositects, with that silly alignment switching fluff.But... we had Medium + Powerful Build in the last two generations, both of which were WoTC's decision. I really doubt that, in "the simple, nostalgic edition", they're going to break their track record and give us Large Half-Giants now. Hell, I really don't know they're going to give us Half-Giants as just a new backstory for Goliaths at all; take the Large size out of the equation, and the Goliath's Stone Endurance is probably the closest thing we'll get in 5e to the half-giant's doubled hitpoints of AD&D. Just change Mountain Acclimatized to Desert Acclimatized, and, really, you're golden.</blockquote>