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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8647539" data-attributes="member: 7023887">D&D 5e Orcs have no connection to Giants. WotC are never doing a player race in D&D 5e that isn't Medium or Small. They've proved that over and over again with the Fairy, the Centaur, the Minotaur, and so on. And the "Isn't already large" is the same wording they used in Tasha's for the Rune Knight. It's almost definitely just a clause in case someone cast Enlarge on the PC already. Not some hint at a Large player race coming to D&D 5e. We already have a lot of Elemental Magic from Xanathar's/Princes of the Apocalypse. Okay. Say they were to do a few of the variants. That would be Trolls, Ogres, Fomorians, Cyclopes, maybe Ettins, Verbeeg, Oni, Goliaths, and Firbolg. That brings up 6 to 10, possibly 15 if they're really stretching. Not Orcs, because Orcs aren't Giantkin. If they stretch a lot. If they reprint dozens of pages and stat blocks from Mordenkainen's/Volo's, cram a bunch of Giant variants that no one cares about in there, and pack the book full of as many random Troll mutations and Firbolg/Goliath stat blocks as possible. If people weren't already complaining about WotC being unimaginative/lazy, they certainly would after this book came out. Like I said before, a Giant-focused monster book would have the exact opposite problem of Fizban's. Fizban's had too many Dragons to choose from past editions to translate to D&D 5e. They couldn't do all of them. Giants would have to stretch a lot in order to fill up a book of the same format. Or the book wouldn't just be about Giants and would also focus on elementals, in which case it wouldn't actually be a Giant-focused monster book.</blockquote>

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