D&D (2024) MM Reveal Videos: Giants Tuesday 28th and Celestials Thursay 30th

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I imagine the Guardian Naga will become a Celestial along with the Sphinxes.

 

[dave2008]

Will we get Giant Scions?

I don't think so, but who knows!

 

[Mecheon]

Maybe dinosaurs too...

Nah, dinosaurs are just average creatures. Vast majority of them aren't giant anyway. Your average Velociraptor is only about the size of a turkey after all, and even ones we generally associate with being huge like the Tyrannosaurus are still dwarfed by your average D&D giant

 

[Demetrios1453]

I very much hope they at least give us a giant "leader" stat block with each type (frost giant jarl, fire giant duke, etc.), as thy haven't done so thus far this edition...

 

[TravDoc42]

I'm super excited to see the Celestial video!!
I'm sure they'll detail the animal lords, and I hope there's some surprises, too!!

 

[TravDoc42]

The inclusion of the fomorian on the iron flask table makes me wonder if they'll play up the Feywild aspect of them? After all, the flask only traps creatures from other planes...

 

[dave2008]

...with being huge like the Tyrannosaurus are still dwarfed by your average D&D giant

This is not an argument for making dinosaurs being giants, but I wanted to correct this statement.

A 22' tall D&D giant (assume RL physics & the square cube law) would weigh about 10,000lbs. A RL T-Rex is estimated to be 10,000 to 20,000 lbs (or more) for the largest ones. So even T-Rex is "giant" sized and they are not even the giants of the dinosaur world. Sauropods could get up to around 150,000 lbs. That is much bigger than any D&D giant.

 

[Mecheon]

A 22' tall D&D giant (assume RL physics & the square cube law) would weigh about 10,000lbs. A RL T-Rex is estimated to be 10,000 to 20,000 lbs (or more) for the largest ones. So even T-Rex is "giant" sized and they are not even the giants of the dinosaur world. Sauropods could get up to around 150,000 lbs. That is much bigger than any D&D giant.

A real life rex is only around 12-13 ft tall so being a whole 10 feet taller but weighing less sounds more like issues with giant weight

Whales get way bigger than that (comparable to the largest sauropods) but they're not in giant, always been in animal.

 

[dave2008]

A real life rex is only around 12-13 ft tall so being a whole 10 feet taller but weighing less sounds more like issues with giant weight

No, that is real world application of the square cube law. If you take a 6' tall, 200 lbs person and scale them up to 22' tall, all other things being equal, that person (aka giant) will weigh 9,859 lbs.

A, T-Rex at the hip is around 13' tall, but 40' long. Their morphology is just much different. If a T-rex stood upright it would be 20'+ tall. This might help;

 

[dave2008]

Whales get way bigger than that (comparable to the largest sauropods) but they're not in giant, always been in animal.

As I said, this was not an argument to call dino's "Giants," i was just saying that many are in fact giant in size. I don't think dinos should have the giant type. Is that clear?