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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8163133" data-attributes="member: 14159">With some money I got for Christmas, I decided I would expand my collection of miniatures for D&D games.I realized I never used giants in my D&D games, because I had no minis for them.  So, I hunted around online at various mini stores and ordered some official hill giant, stone giant, frost giant, and fire giant minis (among other things), as giants I thought I might use in the games I run, if I had proper minis for them.They came in the mail yesterday. I was generally pleased with all of them. . .but the fire giant seemed off.  He was size huge, not large like the rest.  I remember my giant sizes decently well even though I hadn't used them in game, and thought that only cloud and storm giants are "huge", so it seemed strange.  I double-checked the SRD, and sure enough, it's size large.I was left baffled as to how an official D&D miniature of a major D&D creature could get something as basic as it's size wrong, just outright wrong.Then I decided to go look at 5e, and sure enough, WotC had changed fire giants from size large to size huge.  I looked again, and it seems they changed ALL the giants from large to huge, and I just got lucky by 3e-era giant minis for the rest of them.  As I run and play 3.5e, this means the huge fire giant I got is unusable and inappropriate for my game.  I'm frustrated at spending the money on the mini, and I'm angry at WotC for arbitrarily changing the size of a creature like that, thus creating minis that are edition dependent.So, now I'm looking for a size large (not huge) fire giant mini, one presumably made during the era when 3.x was the current officially supported edition, and maybe I can re-gift this 5e fire giant to someone that plays 5e, because it's sure not going to get any use at my table.. . .and I'm also wondering, does WotC just arbitrarily change the size of creatures to encourage players to buy new minis to accommodate?  That's what it feels like.  How many other creatures went from large to huge, or vice versa, or maybe from medium to large?</blockquote>

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