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Giant Lore

Credits

LEAD DEVELOPER

Rob Vaughn

MANAGING DEVELOPER

Greg Benage

WRITING

Peter Buchy, Jeffery Dobberpuhl, Nick Gomes, Shannon Kalvar, Lysle Kapp

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS

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Brian Schomburg

COVER DESIGN

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 4: Giant Options 45

Feats 45

Optional Rule: Hammerfalls 49

Optional Rule: Slam Damage 50

Armor 50

Spells 52

Magic Items 54

Chapter 5: Against the Giants 57

Giant Slayer

Chapter 1: Giants

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Brutigan

Dire Frost Troll

Ghost Giant

Glutton Giant

Nightmare Giant

Sentry Troll

Shambling Troll

Giantseed

Stone Troll

Feats

Tinkerkin

Chapter 2: Templates

Definition of Giant Type

Avarice

Envy

Giant-kin Lycanthropes

Giants are humanoid creatures of great strength,

usually of at least Large size.

Hit Die: d8

Attack Bonus: As cleric (Total Hit Dice ×3/4)

Good Saving Throws: Fortitude

Skill Points: 6 + Int (+1/ per extra Hit Die)

Feats: 1 (+1 per 4 extra HD)

Notes: Giants have darkvision with a range of 60

feet. Giants are proficient with all simple

weapons and with any weapons and armor listed

in their entries.

Plague Giant

Troll-blooded

Wrath

Chapter 3: Prestige Classes

Beast Tamer

Bonegrinder

Ettin Balancer

Infiltrator

Welcome!

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to present

Giant Lore , the latest softcover book in our

Legends & Lairs line of sourcebooks for the

d20 System. Giant Lore is a collection of new

giant creatures and options for use by any DM.

First up are the stars of the book, the giants

themselves. Several are developed from cultur-

al myths and fairy tales, breathing life into

familiar figures. Others fill specific niches in

giant society. Finally, some, like the shambling

troll and stone troll, are homages to classic

roleplaying foes.

One of the great strengths in using giants is

that they have personalities and motivations

that we can relate to, yet are nearly forces of

nature in their strength and power. The tem-

plates chapter plays on this aspect of giants as

friends and foes.

Giants are extremely dangerous opponents,

not merely because of their size and strength

but because they are as intelligent and capable

as most humanoid races. As such, they are able

to take class levels, becoming feature villains

in the process. Even more dangerous are those

who take the prestige classes found here.

Giants have many unique strengths and

weaknesses that adventurers have feared and

capitalized on, respectively, for as long as the

oldest gaffer can remember. It only seems rea-

sonable, then, that they learn some new tricks.

The feats, rules, equipment, spells, and magic

items in Chapter 4 give giants an added boost

and allow them to compensate for and over-

come their most common weaknesses.

Finally, if the giants get some new tricks,

players deserve some, too. The last chapter

gives the PCs a chance to hit back with a

giantkiller prestige class and several new feats

designed for dwarves and others who hate

giants with a ruthless passion.

In fact, material that is strictly rules related

is Open Content. You can use this material in

your own works, as long as you follow the con-

ditions of the Open Game License. You can

copy the material to your website or even put it

in a book that you publish and sell.

Not everything in this book is Open

Content, however. The names of creatures and

the game statistics, mechanics, and rules

derived from the d20 SRD are designated as

Open Content. The descriptions of the crea-

tures are closed content and cannot be repub-

lished, copied, or distributed without the con-

sent of Fantasy Flight Games.

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Giant Lore is published under the terms of the

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Trademark License. The OGL allows us to use

the d20 System core rules and to publish gam-

ing material derived from those rules.

Chapter One

Giants

Giants are as versatile and capable as

humanoids, and as such they can be found in

many shapes and sizes. The new giants in this

chapter fit geographic, cultural, or historical

niches that are not filled by the more classic

giant types.

Most giants are powerful creatures, and

could prove very dangerous to unbalanced par-

ties. They are particularly vulvnerable to mind-

affecting magic and ranged attacks, and their

AC tends to be low compared to the amount of

damage they dish out. For parties with powerful

fighters, the best strategy againt giants is often

“drop them before they drop you.” If your play-

ers do not have a well-balanced party, some of

the giants here might be too much for them.

On the other hand, many of the giants

here are less obviously dangerous for PCs and

can play many roles in a campaign. Brutigans

are great alternative to ogres as opponents for

low-level parties, while amazons, ghost giants,

and tinkerkin might be characters that the party

deals with peacefully. The new trolls presented

here are universally powerful, and should be

placed in adventures with care.

Giants advance by character class, and as

such have effective character levels (ECLs).

ECLs are determined by adding a race’s Hit

Dice, class levels, and level adjustment. An

amazon character’s level adjustment, for

instance, is +1; thus, a 1st-level amazon ranger

has an ECL of 10 and is the equivalent of a

10th-level character. For convenience, each

giant’s level adjustment has been added in

parentheses after the Advancement note in

each giant’s stat block.

The names and statistics of new giants, as

well as any feats, skills, equipment, and any

rules or game mechanics derived from the d20

System Reference Document, are considered

Open Game Content . All background text

describing these giants is considered closed

content.

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Large Giant

Hit Dice: 8d8+24 (60 hp)

Initiative: +8

Speed: 40 ft.

AC: 17 (+4 Dex, –1 size, +4 natural), touch

13, flat-footed 13

Attacks: Huge shortspear +11/+6 melee or

Huge mighty composite longbow +10/+5

ranged

Damage: 2d6+7 Huge shortspear or 2d6+5

Huge mighty composite longbow

Face/Reach: 5 ft. by 5 ft./10 ft.

Special Attacks: Beguiling gaze, war yell

Special Qualities: —

Saves: Fort +9, Ref +6, Will +4

Abilities: Str 21, Dex 18, Con 16, Int 10, Wis

14, Cha 10

Skills: Spot +8, Wilderness Lore +8

Feats: Improved Initiative, Point Blank Shot,

Far Shot

Climate/Terrain: Jungle

Organization: Scouting party (2–4), tribe

(10–30 plus 10-30 non-combatants and 1–3

males), war band (40–100)

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