Giants | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.61

[@JaceDarkstar]

A sea drake is encroaching upon your vessel. When suddenly the sea grows restless. The waves crash over the side. A hand erupts from the sea followed by a hand an body, a storm giant wielding a massive bow. The giant takes aim at the drake, and with a loud thooum the faint fires the bow and skewers the drake.

[@Thedungeoncast]

We apologize for the lack of our handsome faces! Due to some technical difficulties and the hectic-ness of the holidays we somehow lost the video footage for this episode. This will be resolved starting next episode!!

[@88cloudsin1]

I just sent you guys a question.

[@jimmyjam3187]

How far back does the giant empire predate the Dragonborn empire?

[@johnathanmartin1504]

Native American mythology has a lot of giants as well. I'm Cherokee and we have Tsul'kalu.

[@Jak3am]

Yo I got sucked in by your multiclassing video here on UA-cam and have now watches most of your content on soundcloud while at work. Haven't played my first game but I'm super excited to start playing and eventually DM

[@Thedungeoncast]

Thanks for tuning in! Glad you are enjoying the show :)

[@Jak3am]

I'm super looking forward to the expansions on the classes, dieties and monsters.

[@WitcherOnTrail]

Take a drink every time you hear "fer sure"

[@andrewbennett1062]

The Twilight Giants by Troy Denning was a great Forgotten Relms Trilogy for Giant Culture

[@franklin9509]

Would it be accurate to say that Stone Giants view the surface world in the same light that humans view the Feywild?

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

The sad thing is the Hill Giants are still smarter than the fighter from the first Final Fantasy game. He started with a intelligence score of 3. It doesn't grow much, even at level 27.

[@Etanexhunter16]

YAaayy! I was so excited for this one!

[@kappakiev9672]

Up with Jotunheim!
Down with Asgard!

[@MisterTutor2010]

Loki! :)

[@shalomcollege6482]

Aye, Storm giants do forge their own armor and weapons.(Do to the fact that storm and fire giants fighting each other)

[@JakkOfHearts2021]

2020 year of the giants!!

[@eriaswright6885]

You guys should make a discord

[@lodenfire1107]

Y’all should do giants part 2 for the other variants of giants this is great 👌

[@bz7672]

"Some giants are in fact panda bears"
Well yeah, obviously, why else would they named Giant Pandas?

[@impartialthrone2097]

Okie, so what I get from this is that each type of giant is inapired by/based on different giants from real world legends and stories.
Hill Giants are like the generic europwan giants that lumber around eating and killing.
Stone Giants I honestly have no idea.
Frost and Fire Giants are straight out of Norse Mythology, from Jotunheim and Muspelheim respectively.
Cloud Giants are.the Jack and The Beanstalk-style giants.
And Storm Giants are like a blend of Zeus and Poseidon but with the size of the Titans feom Greek Mytyhology.

[@cuthailon]

Wouldn't frost giants trade slaves for weapons with fire giants? That would seem like a maut thing?

[@Thedungeoncast]

I could definitely see this being done and seen as maut.

[@impartialthrone2097]

Wouldn't it be more maut to earn their weapons by either claiming them from foes they defeated with their bare hands or by making them from the parts of huge beasts they killed with their bare hands?

[@tishabyte]

That's a lot of Michael Jordan's lolol

[@megapartymancerender7964]

You had one job why, I wanted to see your fear talking about giants

[@Thedungeoncast]

I know. We are failures :(

[@johnny_roots]

I am planning a giant battle with my 3.5 group. They are level 8-9 but they are loaded with strong magical items and have gained some extra special powers so I would say their ECL would rise to 10-11. Plus they are accompanied by an NPC with ECL 14. So, because of their level I was going for storm giants, but after listening to this podcast I realized I didn't know a f*ck about giants lol this is really helping me create the backstory for this scene of my campaing. But now that I know how storm giants are, it would require a special reason for these guys to fight them. I am considering using hill giants instead or maybe castaway stone giants, or maybe some crazed cloud giants (I guess I should check the CR before that haha). Any suggestions? BTW I noticed that there are specific videos about each type of giant except for the storm giants, did you guys not plan to do it or did something happened that it wasn't possible?

[@thomasthatcher1873]

How would the giants react to a half storm giant would they be considered a giant kin or heresy to the ordning? Is that even a thing?

[@Ohlak]

As someone with a genetic defect that makes me overheat at like 70°F, hating heat or loving cold isnt just semantics

[@romanshibilski7093]

That’s the definition of semantics. Your genetic makeup is a small detail of you. I can’t look at you and see it. It’s semantics. Try picking your words or your battles appropriately.

[@Ohlak]

@@romanshibilski7093 its been 2 years i cant't remember what i replied too, can you tell me at wich timecode my thing was meant against?

[@filchhoff]

Just you you know dwarves and Giants hate each other. They have a history of war, and dwarven greed means they resent that Stone giants are better at stonework than they are because they absolutely are. They like 3x as long and have a devine drive to do nothing else. They are better, just as fire giants are better metal workers, which they also resent.

[@aidenyoo2906]

Titans in 5e are empyreans.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Awesome I love giants, big dumb brutes with a big bag of hp

[@danorris5235]

I thought dwarves and giants hated each other like nobody's business. In earlier editions dwarves for bonuses to attacking giants.

[@LrdRvrnd]

the dwarves were the slaves of the fire giants they learned their smithing and pretty much everything from fire giants they are just tiny fire giants kind of lols

[@Agreus-WolfsbaneYT]

4e had fire hill storm and death giants

[@LrdRvrnd]

hello new people hello
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xD that was funny

[@seekeroftruth7696]

Giants are also in the bible... They are the children of fallin angels

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

Actually humans used to be giants. So in a homebrew setting a 7'-8' human could imply giant ancestry due to humans being under a curse that there creator deity placed on them due to their sin.

[@DiMadHatter]

@@zacharygadzinski3147 "humans used to be giants" in your setting, or in real life?

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

@@DiMadHatter Not a D&D player yet, but I would say real life. Yet if I did make a setting I would have this be the case.

[@DiMadHatter]

@@zacharygadzinski3147 humans weren't giants in the past. Why do you believe that?

[@romanshibilski7093]

@@DiMadHatter he was prolly taking inspiration from Neanderthals, let the boy dream.

[@88cloudsin1]

I am planning a warlock who came from a 1000 year lineage of ( human) gladiators who had a female hill giant back then who had a baby who started my bloodline. His people amassed great wealth by everyone being amazing gladiators and winning INSANE amounts of money. He isn't good at all in fighting, so ( first in the bloodline) prays to his hill giant ancestors to help him be great in melee combat, although weak and "sickly". His ancestor answers ( but shes a feind), and tells him if he follow her rules, and does things she tells him, eventually she'll give him a boon..... our games last until lvl 10 ( so far). My question is : at what level, would it be fair, for him to be granted the boon, of automatically be able to use the ENLARGE spell, once per long rest (only on himself) as a boon, for staying in character and consistently doing everything she wants and keeping to her rules? I'm thinking specifically he cannot attack any hill giant unless he's attacked first, avoid fighting other types of giants unless she specifically tells him it's ok, AND he acts a bit racist towards small sized characters at all times. Like I said, as of now, game ends at lvl 10.

[@gabrielperrella]

Aren't Ettins True Giants?

[@theinfinitywarden7759]

Gabriel Perrella yes they are descended from Arno and Julian which is one of Annams sons

[@gabrielperrella]

@@theinfinitywarden7759 Thanks for clearing that out.

[@MisterTutor2010]

Biggest video yet :)

[@shamusfarmer]

I dont like your short rests being stuck in the middle of the episode. Theyre always the same so i want to skip them but its tricky and i end up cutting off some content as i randomly pick a spot to FF to... Put it at the end like a normal person!

[@UnorganizedWaffle]

Double tap the right side (on moble) or press right on the directional keys(on pc) to skip forward 10 seconds do that until you hear the theme music.

[@larvenkarlsson440]

Now that's alot of ads...

[@andrewrieschick4633]

Inconsistent on comparing sizes

[@aidenyoo2906]

I don't know how one can go about preferring 4e lore to 5e lore. 4e lore is an abomination.