Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Fire Giant 

Gotta get that Red Tunic if you wanna play around in Death Mountain.

I loved the part about Fire Giants using their environment to their advantage. There’s nothing as terrifying as a Fire Giant doing a cannonball into a pool of lava to create waves of lava to melt a adventuring party. A fun encounter with Fire Giants shouldn’t just include a patrolling band with a few Hellhounds, but an elite raiding party riding Fire elemental Tyrannosaurs accompanied by a Giant Pyromancer(Psionics Handbook class).

One of my favourite encounters I've run was a 3.5 game, the players had been sneaking through a fire giants newly established mine keeping combat surprisingly quiet using silence spells and coordinated attacks until they reached the Giants personal quarters and surprised the giant in his 'bath', a swirling pool of lava. He stood and grabbed his spear and as combat continued the stone hardened, gradually increasing his AC as the players initial momentum stuttered and stalled and now they faced a rock-clad and ANGRY giant

The PC term for slaves is Human Resources :)

You know I would love to join a campaign with a focus on Norse mythology. As a Scandinavian it has a special place in my heart and exploring a realm based on Muspelheim with a rich culture of Fire Giants would be metal as hell.

A Fire Giant Haka would be amazing.

After describing how I hunkered down and braced behind it, I once blocked a Fire Giants swing with a mithral shield. My DM ruled that while I succeeded in blocking the blow, all I effectively did was turn their sword into a club and I got launched almost 15ft straight into a stone wall, and knocked prone. Atleast I didn't get cut in half. That DM is pretty good at turning your attempts at Role-playing into disasters. Loved that campaign.

At first when I saw the thumbnail about a fire giant the first thing that came to mind was Yhorm the giant from dark souls 3

Iron slag? You know my ex wife? - Glad to know cancer isn't a thing in the D&D realms😂

Dont you think that instead of wearing furs, fire giants would wear their metal armor in cold environments? With all their body heat I think the metal would work better. And I dont see how furs wouldn't burn, but that's just me.

I think sometimes it can be hard to imagine what meeting some creatures would be like, like you know a giant is giant but it doesn't always hold the same gravitas of a dragon. You think of a giant dragon & you can easily imagine your whole body reacting to its might & presence. But I think fire giants are like that too, you don't really struggle to imagine how crazy it would be to meet one.

"Throw off the yoke of savory! Eat the dirt! Eat. The. Dirt!" - One mad fire giant druid too deep in his cups Yes, a fire giant druid... obviously insane. Also... might need to make that the villain some day... so much fire! :D

Something just occured to me. While dragons and giants have been at war. They are very philosophically opposed. Giants knowing their place in the ordaining, while dragons are typically very covetous.

Why was the yakfolk poisoned when the adventurer gave it a loaf of bread? Silly-yak disease

Back to painting. Fire giant figure primed and ready to go. But first , time to stop by here and have a listen to the lore of this terrible foe.

I find myself wondering if the Fire Giants do march out, would rival Giant kin consider intervening, would they join in or just watch. I can't see Cloud Giants aiding for example. I imagine Hill Giants would get swept up for labor if nothing else.

Fought a pair of these backed up by a few Hill Giant mooks a few sessions ago. We were lucky they showed up late to the fight. Even after clearing out most of the Hill Giants, the arrival of the Fire Giants nearly killed us. My Hexblade and our Barbarian were separated from the group and both had to spend a couple rounds going mano-a-mano with the big guys. The party has some seriously potent magic equipment, but we're still only level 8, so we were hard-pressed to say the least. If they had opted to coordinate rather than taking one opponent each, we'd both be super dead. As the situation stood, we were able to buy just enough time for the party to finish off the blockading Hill Giants and come to our rescue. My opponent was rolling quite poorly against me (though he clearly still had the upper hand), so the Barbarian went down first. I subsequently had to activate my Tomb of Levistus invocation to avoid going down, and the pair broke through it, knocked me out, and fed me 2 failed Death Saves out of what was probably spite before the party was able to intervene. Even then, it was a very close fight. Neither I nor my character will be forgetting that battle anytime soon. It was a good reality check for a group that had been relatively dominant in combat for a while.

Love them. They are the most fun I had to roleplay

The evil Giants which include Frost, Fire and Dum Dum Hil Ones are considered to be threats to the natural world.

Fire giant @ frost giants "Mister heat miser, I'm mister sun.."

King Snurre's throne room is one of the nastiest encounters ever

A masterpiece! Who's ready for VONINDOD!?!

I ran Storm King's Thunder, and Fire Giants ended up being major players. They were definitely fun to roleplay.

Fire giants look like ganondorf from Zelda, Guess they will use the power of DORIYAAAAAAH! To smash there enemies into submission and take over the world.

Timestamps and Spoilers Below! 0:18 Intro, Subscribe and Become a Member! 1:00 Fire Giants Overview: 1:45 Annam's Divine Children, Surtr, and Muspelheim 4:21 Cult of Surtr, more on Muspelheim, and Worship 6:12 Annam's Terrestrial Children and Masud 8:15 Hartsvale 9:14 Description 11:15 Weapon Training, blacksmiths, and Slaves 13:01 Dangers in the Lair, chemicals, and textiles 16:30 Other Creatures in the lair 17:13 Craftsmanship, Runemagic, and Vonindod 19:17 Draco-rage, Annam breaks the Ordning 21:32 Zalto and the might of the Fire Giants 24:04 Fire Giants on Ebberon Like, Share, Comment, Subscribe, hit the bell icon, and join us on the discord! I was part of the way through this video when i realized that Ironslag and the story of Zalto sounded really familiar, before realizing that it was on Dice, Camera, Action and that is probably one of the stories in Storm King's Thunder. Makes sense. In anycase, running a bit behind on videos, took a week or two for myself and come abck to find like five videos. Funny how that happens following an active RU-vidr. Dont forget to Like, Share, Comment, and Subscribe, and maybe tell us some of your fun Fire Giant stories below!

Fire giants have the best aesthetics to them. I can't take skinny clown mask wearing cloud giants serious.

So here’s a technical and mechanical question. Does the extra fire(or other) dmg that is on their weapons come from the giants’ innate fire ability or is it because of giant magic runes carved into their weapons. Cause you mentioned that they’re good with runes and ice giants don’t add cold dmg to their attacks. So makes me question things.

One giant that I'd be interested in a bit of info on in the Desert Giant, one that's outside the Ordening, but I can't find much on them

Awesome - one of your best videos yet! :-)

Question A suit of chain mail made by fire giants would have to be truly immense how does it stop arrows

very cool

Is there enough info on Vonindod to do a whole video on it?

Fog giant? That sounds very interesting

The 3.5 MM lists Trolls as part of a Fire Giant Clan in the organisation list, can anyone shed some light on this? Im pretty sure its because slaving is a thing, but it just feels off. Trolls like cold mountains and FGs like volcanoes, Trolls dislike burning (a reasonable opinion tbh) but FGs dont care so much. They just seem so far seperated, if its just the "giant" aspect there are other (better?) options. That said FGs being the crafters and runesmiths they are, as well as the war minded tacticians we know them to be, maybe training a troll to wear full plate and enchant it with ImmFire and ImmAcid sounds like the perfect fighting force, hell, just chain shirts tip trolls OTT IMO.

good video AJ

It's was very interesting video, thanks.

Ah (around 22:52) - kinda sure I saw Chris Perkins send some Waffles into that furnace :)

So I read that AO returned all the dead Gods to life? My main question is Ulutiu back as well? Would that diminish the great glacier? Thanks!

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leagues are a measurement of depth, not horizontal distance.

They are "prisoners with jobs"

So the restart of the war between Giants and Dragons is going to look like the scene from Avengers endgame. With multiple portals opening and legions of fire giants marching out. All shouting the fire giant version of the Spartan battle cry from 300. Probably have Vonidod come bursting out of the side of a near by mountain. Bad day to a dragon.

Ran a modified version of Hall of the Fire Giant King that fit into my campaign. My players had to settle for a negotiated exit from the Hall and then ran for their lives, and they were 15th level to the best of my recollection. The giants' tactical intelligence was an unpleasant surprise for them. Entertaining for everyone involved!

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Would love a deep dive into the Giant/Dragon war, as well as the Vonindod. (already foreseeing a reassembly of this construct to deal with a Tarrasque, possibly reigniting the Giant/Dragon war)

Great video, AJ. When DMing Fire Giants, focusing on their environment is a must for real immersion. I had some cocky players. The cockiest player ran a red half-dragon (80s homebrew version of mine), essentially fireproof. He was a musketeer (flint-lock rifleman, the advanced version of the Arquebus in the PHB was used). The other two were a mage and a cleric loaded with fire resistance magic. Upon entering the area, they saw two Fire Giant guards. As they came near, heat washed over the party. The red half-dragon's everything burst into flames (he felt that his innate fire and heat immunity applied to everything he carried). All of his powder and shot detonated as well as some bombs he fashioned. He was reduced to single-digit HP's and so did the mage next to him. The mage opened up his scroll tube to read a teleport scroll to have the party make a quick exit. Upon leaving the tube, that scroll flashed into almost instant ashes. The party looked up to see the giants laughing as hellhounds came from within the gates to charge. The party turned tail and ran and the fire giants whistled for the hell hounds to just return. The outer gate has a magical barrier that kept most of the heat in so they did not have time to deal with incrementing heat and noticing something about to go bad. If they bothered to read the mission scroll they were given, they would have known that. They went back a couple levels later and discovered that going into a fire giant hellhole means you have to have more than just fire resistance, so they got owned. The fire giants even toyed with them and offered them a chance to surrender. And that is where the role-playing as fire giant's slaves started. Yes, instead of giving up on their enslaved characters, they insisted on still playing them. I had to invent some fire giant culture because there were no sources for that yet. Here's the thing, every gamin's session, one of the fire giants jested about the explosive meeting of that trio of slaves... the only time fire giants ever smiled.

Funny how I just watched the Spurt scene from Critical Role before watching this.

If a Fire Gaint came across an adventurer with a Belt of Fire Giant Strength, would they be offended? Would they be flattered? Same question goes for all giants I suppose and their belts!

I was actually wondering when you were going to mention the shattering of the Ordning. I personally think giants are actually much more interesting as characters this way. Individuals are far more compelling than archetypes imho.

First i ever heard of the titan of death. Nice presentation!

I got the idea of a sea adventure where Fire Giants sailors in massive metal ships capture young Brass Dragons to use them as pets as Frost Giants do with White Dragons, treating them as a mixture of parrots and hunt falcons.

Thank you so much for providing this information. I've gained so many more players for the game after introducing them to your work. Many of my friends and other make their game so much better now that they can provide more in depth backgrounds and lore for their games. They also send their thanks. They can answer more questions from their player characters and quench the thirst for information and lore on different areas monster and races. God bless you Mr.Pickett and please keep up the great work sir.

This is up there with the best vids you've made this far, AJ! Not just content, but audio, good use of visuals (on topic with the audio). It's killing me, though, to see fire giants. As they tried to keep their old ways, more so than other giants, and are very much into metallurgical craftsmanship. Also, the rune magic affinity. Reminds me of dwarves. I understand dwarves learned rune magic from the giants, but why do dwarves *look* like fire giants (and Azers, for that matter)? Am I being superficial, or is there more to that? Did the dwarves ever worship giant deities? Are there any dwarven links to giants, besides being "prisoners with jobs" and rune magic?

I tend to give them a bit of Polynesian flavor in my games, whole war dances and things. My players came across Pahoehoe abd his wife Aa named after two Hawaiian words for lava.

Prob my favorite type of giant honestly . i think cloud giants are interesting and i like them too but something about fire giants lol they're so cool to me

Imagining a human scientist explaining fire and metallurgy to the Fire Giants in terms of chemistry and physics :)

Is it possible that Desert and Sun Giants may be offshoots of Fire Giants?

Just stopping by to get some knowledge before our live stream tonight, lol. Cheers, see ya soon!

I am curious where the "white lady in chains" art came from, book or artist would be welcome if you have it. Thanks

Awesome video AJ!! I'm excited to see what's coming next! Have you ever considered streaming some games that you DM? I think a lot of people would love watching games run by a DM with such a vast knowledge!

...where would one find info on none traditional giant like the fog giant? If you deem me worthy of such knowledge.

This may be a forbbidin question but is there any lore at al on mongrol dragons or mongrol giants?

Great vid and random question, wasn’t Annam exiled from having any interaction with the material plane until his one of his sons restored Ostoria? Would him clearing the Ordning violate that, or does he not care anymore for one reason or another?

Forge clerics and wildfire druids

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Damn aj I've only been awake for an hour

really enjoy your videos! The fire giants are pretty epic! Coolest video i watched so far!

One of the main reasons that Adventurers need not worry about the long term consequences of something like asbestos, is the fact that they knew it wasn't a career you went into expecting a LONG life, but instead an EXCITING one. Let's face it most adventurers WON'T get the chance to retire & most know it going in, if they wanted a LONG life they would have been craftsmen or farmers not guys who go LOOKING for orcs & other monsters. I can imagine a misfit fire giant who becomes fascinated with mathematics once one of the little folk demonstrates the practical applications of algebra when it comes to calculating trajectories for siege weapons. A well placed scaled up trebuchet shot could easily be a one hit kill for a dragon. Imagine the mountain sized boulders a team of giants could hoist into one, such a shot might be enough to hurt even a giant threat like Tiamat.

by seeing the CR of their greatest subraces, I do still think that the Dragons have beaten the Giants in their ancient war. while Ancient Reds, Golds, Blues, & Silvers are either the same CR as Empyreans (Titans) or higher, the Dragons have stayed in the Material Plane, while Titans fled to the Outer Planes, which looks like something a losing party would do. let's also not forget that all Ancient & Adult Dragons are of CR higher or equal to that of the apex of the Ordening who haven't left the Material or the Inner Planes: Storm Giants.

ha! hot headed, I get it

With creatures this powerful and borderline malevolent it’s amazing smaller creatures are able to build civilization at all. You would think the giants and dragons would just take over the planet.

Oh my, quote like the difference in editing this time around.

"The yoke of savoury" What a cruel life

Nice work on the video! Excellent ❤

Good to “cut my teeth” on the new video. Loved it. (Hope you are well)

im waiting on a zelda joke

Yay!

I love waking up to fresh uploads from AJ much love brother

I have a half Stone Giant in my PC’s list and I can’t wait to see you do that! I love your channel!

I am picturing a party of adventurers and their prized treasure of a pair of fireproof Fire Giant underwear used to shield them against all kinds of flames.

They can't say the word 'slaves.' Gods I hate the verbal puritans. At least when the religious nuts were the ones whining, they didn't bow to them and edit demons out of the game.

:( where's the Frost giants? i don't see it in the playlist.

The Yolk of Savory.

Fire giants are some of the coolest mythical creatures, still does not hold a candle to Red Dragons but awesome still,

Surter does no guard Muspelheim! Surter is the destroyer or initiator of the destruction of the nine realms, he doesn't appear until Ragnarok. I found this annoying so I needed to leave a comment, but no matter it's whatever.

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Love ur vids...but please we r americans we dont know anything about the metric system please use pounds for weights and feet and miles for distance...the metric system ruins most entertainment i could possibly get