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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3482494" data-attributes="member: 4937">A Hill Giant eats about 16000 calories a day, usually in the form of about 15 lbs of cooked meat.  A Cloud giant eats about 81000 calories a day, or roughly 77 lbs of food.Giants generally are not able to feed themselves.  Their required caloric intake is higher than they can regularly maintain using thier skills in agriculture, hunting, or animal husbandry.  The giants natural inclination to laziness only makes this problem worse.  Although desparate giants will try to scratch out a living growing crops or more often herding animals, they just aren't very good at it.Therefore, most giants resort to the only other available option - they steal thier food.Most giants are bandits.  They survive by raiding the gardens, foodstocks, and herds of thier more industrious neighbors.  Less intelligent giants simply raid thier neighbors, stealing sheep and cows like any other tribe.  More intelligent giants often arrange protection rackets, force tribute from thier neighbors, or even arrange to be worshipped.  A few giants, smaller ones with unusually high wisdoms, have small enough egos to agree to serve as mercenaries or laborers for more prosperous races.Like any predatory species, this naturally limits thier population to the available prey.</blockquote>