Obyrith are actually the oldest. They’re literally from the universe before the Forgotten Realms. Then and the Great Old Ones, who I’m pretty sure are also from that same previous universe.
I had a game where cloud giants flew by and dropped boulders killing 3/4 of the city and party and they just considered it the same as "egging" someone's house.
They DO mention their superior tactics in the MM I Think they mean like large scale logistics and risk evaluation, the know your enemy type things, while fire giants just know optimal stabbing conditions
I think the difference would be Tactician and Generals. While in our societyy both are merged, the first is good a organising a campaign, prepare new strategy for the army and dispatch ressources accordingly while the other is good at comanding the troops on the batlefield, reading ennemy movements and strategies, keeping men in control and seize opportunity.
Giants are really old. They have treasure hoards! 25 sessions later and *lots* of dead giants. Welp, I guess they're going to need to make some less-old giants soon or they're going to be forgotten as well as broke.
Honestly, for lore, I prefer to watch mrrhexx, who I have no idea if anyone watches but I like his voice and he goes really in depth on the lore of DnD.
Also among giant kin are the Goliaths. They're mini giants that exist so people can have giants as player characters. Also, they have natural full body tribal tattoos.
Just imagine that picture of a hill giant is wearing a bikini. If you did... Congratulations you will now need mind bleach to scrub that picture out of your head.
Does anybody find it strange that the cloud giant picture gives the giant vampire fangs? That’s bugged me ever sense I first saw it in the monster manual.
@@FerokNuva yeah, when I blew it up on my computer and increased the resolution it makes it look like lip rings. The bottoms look like they curl under the lip and the tops come out at an angle that doesn't really make sense for teeth (expecially vampiric fangs)
Bluecho4 I researched a bit and I think you’re right. It seems like a weird distinction though, even then. I also figured out they might be lip rings, and I can maybe see that if you look at them just right, but they just protrude so much.
Only problem: Probably no wizards or artificers, less combat manuvers for fighters, less oral history for bards, fewer playable artificers, less centuries of culture for monks. No rougues becuase no major human cities Really society has no time to develop and thus cannot exist The Only class to really benefit whould be maybe druids
@@defensivekobra3873 rogues can be anyone sneaky, are you telling me people don't use scouts and assassins during war? The apparent missing centuries of monk monasteries doesn't matter since monks aren't even that reliant on them flavour wise and you can just say ancient ones exist. Why would Fighters have less maneuvers?
"If you go far enough north in any world, you're either Saxton Hale or you're dead." Sounds accurate, someone's gotta get those Yetis in Yeti Park after all.
Leafseason Magbag Or you could follow the semi-trend in Roman mythology: “Before the founding of Rome...” This is how time was generally given as their system of timekeeping did not allow for dating anything that happened before 753 BC.
8:13 Damn now i have a scene in my head of a proud dwarfen smith showing off his master piece in his dying breath only to see a giant starting to explode in booming laughter and just one up this dying dude xD
Goliaths: they are like giants, but worse in almost every way that isn't "fitting through an average door" this is why I homebrewed my Goliath to be Frost & more like a giant.
@@coyraig8332 the moral choice for final boss fight was left up to them. Fight the toddler giant or fight the lich grandpa while siding with the other choice. They liked lich grandpa
Jodamanify very much depends on which dragon and which giant. Also, there are a lot more giants than there are dragons. You won’t be finding a cave filled with a mini society of dragons anytime soon, but you could find a few dozen stone or fire giants.
The "Giant Soul" sorcerer is what initially clued me into giants... They are fascinating...and having a character with a distant lineage to them offers interesting character traits....this video has given me numerous ideas! I "wish" the djinn races had such a subclass...
Wait. So when giants ruled there were just them and dragons. But there was noone else around that they could compare their size to other then dragons. So, is a giant even a giant when all they have besides them are dragons?
"they're like absol, as seeing one always means good luck" Y'know if you see an absol that generally means your entire town is about to be destroyed by an earthquake or something
My husband and I want to play Dungeons and dragons but we have no friends really (cause we are 37 and 36 and everyone we know has kids while we are still working to make them after 4 year lol) and we have never played before cause... well... I wasn't even cool enough for the nerds to want let me play with them when I was in school... and well my husband kinda just I dont know didn't 😂🤣😂 but we very much appreciate and enjoy your videos lol so thank you for posting them dude! And keep up the good works!
Check some local hobby shops. Some places run game nights and are really open to teaching new players. Of course there are some that are tight groups but I know some people are super open.
@@Ingothrial wow really! Totally gonna have to check them out! Didn't think of that for whatever reason lol seems pretty obvious now that I think about it lol thank you so much! You are wonderful!
If you don't have correctly sized tokens, a soda can works perfectly. And the looks on your players faces will be wonderful as it looms over their characters.
i remember the one time i used giants, i had two cloud giants fighting over a bag of beans (yes it was jack's), one of the giant lord had stolen it from the other and there skirmishes between the two factions threatened to destroy a city, since the bodies of slayed giants would fall from the sky.
Fun additional scary facts about giants. Storm giants: whenever they are nearing the end of their life and don't wanna die, they go full druid and become an immortal living storm, surround whatever place they do this shit in for the rest of time until they are slain. How do you kill a literal living storm? No idea. Hill giants: oh yea if one of them gets so sick that they keep throwing up, they actually lock the giant away and starve them until he gets better. This leads to most the time rampage as remember food is a hill giants religion literally. Frost giants: Ever wonder what some storm giants do to bulk up and become chieftain? Well one forbidden and taboo way is to go abandon Thyrm as your lord and savior, worship troll god, go out and slay a troll, then consume its carcass to gain its regenerative powers. The fucked thing here is that they may develop vestigial body parts such as extra heads, a tail, arms, legs, nipples, etc etc due to frost giants biology not suppose to be like a troll. When they are finally figure out they are thrown out the clan because weakness reasons and they just wander around fucking up everything in pure rage. Stone giants: my favorite fucking thing about stone giants is canonically they are overpowered as fuck. You know how they call the world outside their cave "Land of dreams" and shit? Well stone giants are lucid dreamers. Translation: they literally start to bend reality, the laws of nature, gravity, etc etc if they spend long enough outside their underground cave home. To them the world is literally a dream, meaning to them that they can do whatever they want so normally its common to see a chaotic fuck off stone giant turning a boat into a war ship and chucking that bitch at an adventuring group for the lolz.
"Big daddy vietnam is comming home" that line cracks me up every time. that and the one thing he said with the Copper dragon Which if its fine i would totally use that for one of my games. Fricken Sean connery durgan ^_^
One of the things I've wanted to do was to create Humanoid settlement that is literally just the dwelling of a Giant that once lived their. (What may have been a simple manor for a Giant would be an entire city for humans.) I just need to find a was to represent that architecture.
1:18 And yet all of these coexist in spell-jammer. It’s ambitious, but in my campaign setting I’m attempting to reconcile all of these histories and lores.
"Giants are fucking scary man" Which is an idea that I had to drill into my D&D group the hard way. They thought that they could just run up to the giant and start hitting it with their little swords and hammers and eventually wear it down and kill it. Which unfortunately would actually work if you just follow normal D&D rules. But I don't run my campaigns like that. I focus more on realism. So after they got TPKed in one casual swing from the giant's club and got all annoyed about how that isn't how the rule books say it works, I asked them to imagine a rat standing by their foot, beating them about the shins and ankles with a tooth pick, and how absolutely ineffective that would be against them. Then they finally got the idea. I did a reset on the game, turning the clock back to when the party first heard they had to fight a giant. Instead of just assuming they could charge in and beat up its foot until it died, they made a plan, made custom weapons specific to the task, and hired mercenaries to help carry out the plan. The still barely managed to kill the giant. Giants are scary. Especially if you have a DM who knows how to use them.
QUEST IDEA: Your party is recruited by the King to deal with one of his Cities that refuse to pay up taxes, or really communicate at all with the central power. The armies he sends there are always defeated by SOMETHING, but the part isn't inform WHAT. When you get to the city, you find out that they've made a pact with the Cloud Giant: the city pays him tribute, and in return, the giant offers them protection. The reason they did this is because the king is a giant dick (insert joke here), and he would rarely make sure the city and its citizens have what's needed, instead just asking for money and resources (obviously, the Cloud Giant is cheaper). From here the party has to choose: Do they kill the Giant? The King promised them a stupid amount of money, like 10k GP for each. Do the overthrow the King? There's a good chance the Cloud Giant will speak with one of his Fiery cousins to make you some legendary loot. Or do you mind your own business? You gain nothing, but you also don't risk your lives.
Man, how do you put out quality videos so quickly? Seriously killing me. Any chance of you putting out a video showing how you plan/make your videos, like a DM notes that Jacob does but not cringey?
So in short, Cloud Giants are Nobles but with actual competence to procure safety by yeeting other predators nearby? Seems like a good deal for a peasant instead of the adventurer random market.
Holy shit! The royalty free music you used starting from 0:50 nearly gave me a heart attack, I thought one of my hentai games was open on another computer.
Well, if you wanna be technical all oni are spiritual beings classified as youkai, and most of them are actually good. Oni are protector spirits who, through lingual corruption, became known over time by the Japanese as evil spirits.
Imagine being some elf arcane fighter, then the fire giant scores a crit and yells DORIYAH. Then you're an Orc Barbarian who just joined a group of adventurers after their elf got obliterated by a giant
Could you put music credit in your descriptions? You use a lot of awesome music and I'd love to know the artists/names so I could use it for my campaigns.
