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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omand" data-source="post: 1803461" data-attributes="member: 14344">Hello,OK, so this discussion is kind of hung up on the Frost Giant example.I can understand the point being made that there are themes in what monsters in WotC products are statted with.  This has never bothered me, as the tropes usually appear to be based upon mythology or an inherent logic (to my mind).I think, however, that important points of comparison have been missed.  The point was raised that fire and frost giants would have a hard time coming into conflict due to distance between them.  This is not the case (as has already been point out).  To use real world examples (for realism purposes), consider the following:- Iceland.  The entire island is a volcanic hotbed, but glaciers cover much of the land mass away from the coastal fringe, and snow blankets the landscape around bubbling volcanic hotsprings in the middle of winter.- Mt. St. Helens (USA).  Prior to the eruption in 1980 the peak was galciated, yet only a kilometre or so underground there was red-hot magma.- Banff National Park (Canada).  The Banff Hot Springs are world famous and caused by thermal vents rising up from magam pools/streams under the earth.  The peaks of the mountains around Banff are generally snowcapped throughout the year (although with global warming this may change).  Again, 5-10 kilometres distance, at most, separates fire and ice in the summer and even less in winter.- Yellowstone National Park (USA).  Again, a thermal hotbed that exists in the caldera of a dormant volcano.  The hotsprings and geysers in the park are in relatively close proximity to large glaciers (although again global warming appears to be melting these).So there are real-world equivalents to the frost/fire combination.  With a little more research/thought/digging it would likely be possible to draw up more close combinations that can co-exist.Does fire melt ice, sure it does, but the two can also exist close togther in relative stability.  So frost giants using frost weapons again fire giant raiders is believable.The proximity of enemies of an opposite type makes it necessary for many creatures to have the weapons they wield.Of course, some choices were likely flavour based, so change the ones you want to.Cheers  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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