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<blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 4414137" data-attributes="member: 61182"><p>...and...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What about giving the kids a spit ability that is less effective. If infants have smaller stomachs maybe they can spit but can't do damage. You could give them a Swamp Spit ability that doesn't do any hit points, but forces spellcasters to make concentration checks. (Try juggling material components and making complex gestures while a baby bosk giant spits half a pint of dirty water in your eye. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...and...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Don't forget that that age was for a <strong>swamp giant</strong> rather than a <strong>bosk giant</strong>. Swamp giants seem to be less agressive and more civilised that bosk giants. I'd expect them to live longer than bosk giants, especially with bosk giants sucking up and spitting out stagnent water all the time (that must be pretty bad for their teeth).</p><p></p><p>How about making bosk giants have the shortest lives (of the three giant races on Chislev). Swamp giants could have the medium lives and hill giants (who are a known quantity) could have the longest lives? I say we put in a 40 year gap between each race (i.e. bump swamp giants up to 160 years and drop bosk giants down to 120 years). How does that sound?</p><p></p><p>(Actually, I think we younger bosk giants would try to muscle in on the territory of older bosk giants who seem to be showing their age. I think that bosk giants should have no concept of "village elders" and venerable bosk giants should be dangerous homeless loners who stalk humanoids, steal their food and occasionally beat one of them up just to proove to themselves that they are still able to fight.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Mac, post: 4414137, member: 61182"] ...and... What about giving the kids a spit ability that is less effective. If infants have smaller stomachs maybe they can spit but can't do damage. You could give them a Swamp Spit ability that doesn't do any hit points, but forces spellcasters to make concentration checks. (Try juggling material components and making complex gestures while a baby bosk giant spits half a pint of dirty water in your eye. :eek: :p ) ...and... Don't forget that that age was for a [B]swamp giant[/B] rather than a [B]bosk giant[/B]. Swamp giants seem to be less agressive and more civilised that bosk giants. I'd expect them to live longer than bosk giants, especially with bosk giants sucking up and spitting out stagnent water all the time (that must be pretty bad for their teeth). How about making bosk giants have the shortest lives (of the three giant races on Chislev). Swamp giants could have the medium lives and hill giants (who are a known quantity) could have the longest lives? I say we put in a 40 year gap between each race (i.e. bump swamp giants up to 160 years and drop bosk giants down to 120 years). How does that sound? (Actually, I think we younger bosk giants would try to muscle in on the territory of older bosk giants who seem to be showing their age. I think that bosk giants should have no concept of "village elders" and venerable bosk giants should be dangerous homeless loners who stalk humanoids, steal their food and occasionally beat one of them up just to proove to themselves that they are still able to fight.) [/QUOTE]
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