Bigby Presents: Glory of Giants (Dungeons & Dragons Expansion Book)

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Dungeon Masters will gain inspiration for bringing giants to life, from maps of giant-built sites and big new monsters to tremendous treasures and intriguing trinkets in a giant's bag! The 2024 Core Rulebooks provide new options for players and DMs along with updates and improvements to the classes, mechanics, items, and monsters of fifth edition.

Dungeon Masters will gain inspiration for bringing giants to life, from maps of giant-built sites and big new monsters to tremendous treasures and intriguing trinkets in a giant’s bag!The ability to cast comprehend languages without a spell slot once a day gives Rune Shapers the potential to easily interact with people or creatures that can speak any language, a tool of enormous advantage for solving mysteries and resolving disputes. It’s possible that other products (such as DM screens and tie-in adventures) will also be coming out after launch, although nothing has officially been announced by Wizards of the Coast. Virtually all giants in the game can trace their lineage back to Annam All-Father, the powerful giant god. Giant Foundlings gain some benefits when it comes to resilience, with skill proficiencies in Intimidation and Survival and a number of suggested personality traits that mostly speak to a determined mindset. Offers a plethora of tools for Dungeon Masters including lair maps, detailed lore, adventure hooks, encounter tables, treasures, and giant roleplaying inspiration.

There’s also a lot of effort to expand on the giant’s larger cultural structure, pushing them towards something a bit more than being big plus one obsession per giant type. As you might guess from the length, these enclaves are presented as sources of ideas, rather than complete encounters. Instead, he’s been reincarnated as a gnome after being crushed by a giant (something which will be covered in greater detail in the book). There are also more than 70 pages of bestiary for when the DM does want to have fights against giants. The book offers advice on how to connect a character using any of these options to the lore of the giants, whether to draw a direct line of ancestry, draw power from an artifact, or worship the gods of the giants.Chapter 2: Giants in Play: This chapter will feature a section on roleplaying giants and expand the lore around giant society, religion and the pantheon of gods (known as the Ordning).