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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 6979056" data-attributes="member: 53176">When talking about Giants, there is one aspect of the stat blocks I adore, and that is the fact they have a proper ranged attack, even though they are traditionally melee brutes. Well most of them have one anyway.Smiling Ones, in particular, have all kinds of potential do to their many moving parts: Innate Spellcasting, Bardic Spellcasting, Threatening Melee and Ranged attack options backed up by a "sneak attack" like mechanic, and Change Shape to top it all off. You can have it fill practically any combat roll you need it too. It has enough staying power to be the Frontline Brute, and enough finesse to be the sneaky Ranged Support. It can even be the healer or controller of a higher level group. Heck, it can fill any out of combat roll you need it to as well: An opportunistic healer when the party desperately needs some more spell support. A scholar at a Bardic College who just happens to know the answer to that obscure riddle everyone has been having trouble with. A superspy. Anything basically.One change I would make to them however, is turning Vicious Mockery into a bonus action for them. That spell is so much fun in play and it's a pity that they would only really consider to use it while shapeshifted into something that doesn't have any weapons.But as far as supervilians go, these things aren't Lex Luthor or Giganta, they are strait up Loki. Heck, Loki is even giant! (Albeit a Frost Giant who likes to hang around in human size for some reason, so the connection still stands!)</blockquote>

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