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<blockquote data-quote="JoeCrow" data-source="post: 6029802" data-attributes="member: 1302">That's from September's Wandering Monsters column at <a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20120925" target="_blank">Dungeons &amp; Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Bigger They Come . . .)</a>. So, not an actual promise or anything, but what with all the statements about supporting classic D&amp;D lore, a very strong implication that seems to have been disregarded in this case. Me, I'm gonna be going with the classic setup and reworking the Giant Strength items for my games. Something along the lines of giving the encumbrance levels for the associated giants Size rating, letting the wearer use size-appropriate weapons, and probably giving the wearer giant-style rock-throwing. I really like the idea that they were originally spouting about bounded accuracy, and I'm gonna work like hell to keep that in my game,&nbsp; no matter how much the core team gets lured away from it,Yes, I realize that probably means I'm gonna end up house-ruling my way into a completely different home-brewed game system. Wouldn't be the first time. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoeCrow, post: 6029802, member: 1302"] That's from September's Wandering Monsters column at [url=http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20120925]Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Bigger They Come . . .)[/url]. So, not an actual promise or anything, but what with all the statements about supporting classic D&D lore, a very strong implication that seems to have been disregarded in this case. Me, I'm gonna be going with the classic setup and reworking the Giant Strength items for my games. Something along the lines of giving the encumbrance levels for the associated giants Size rating, letting the wearer use size-appropriate weapons, and probably giving the wearer giant-style rock-throwing. I really like the idea that they were originally spouting about bounded accuracy, and I'm gonna work like hell to keep that in my game, no matter how much the core team gets lured away from it, Yes, I realize that probably means I'm gonna end up house-ruling my way into a completely different home-brewed game system. Wouldn't be the first time. :devil: [/QUOTE]

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