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

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And if you want to run something giant-focused and more in-depth than Against the Giants, you’re probably going to want that bit more. Of the eight new feats available, seven are connected to Giant Foundlings, as the basic Strike of the Giants feat available to Giant Foundlings or characters with Martial Weapon Proficiency serves as the prerequisite for a variety of third-level feats. Earning enough XP can infuse the weapons that raging Path of the Giant barbarians use with extra power and eventually increase their size to Huge if they so choose. Also, for reasons unclear to me, there’s a Cheshire cat (don’t get me wrong, it’s neat, I’m just not sure why this is the book it showed up in). Some of these force saving throws upon enemies to inflict conditions or various disadvantages, while others stick to the basic damage.

Hill Giants: Arguably, the weakest and least intelligent giants, they can be quick to anger and often roam the wilds. There are also more than 70 pages of bestiary for when the DM does want to have fights against giants. Strike of the Giants comes in a number of types, allowing players to inflict damage correlating with their chosen variety once per turn when hitting a target with a weapon attack. Following in footsteps of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons is Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants, although I suppose that given their ancient rivalry the giants might prefer to think of themselves as making even bigger footsteps over the footsteps of the dragons.Chapter 3: Giant Adventures: This section will offer a variety of options and advice for DMs when it comes to running giant-themed encounters, adventures and DnD 5e campaigns. Delves into unrevealed giant lore, including an overview of the hierarchical structure of the ordning and giants' religion, and ideas about giants' organizations and societies across the multiverse. In Glory of the Giants we learn that he has been killed and reincarnated as a gnome (because when he died they only had a druid handy, not a cleric), and has developed a bit of a fascination with giants that tends to make his comments a bit fawning. In total, the new material in Glory of the Giants that directly contributes to choices for character building amounts to one subclass, two backgrounds, and eight feats. You will find a look at their mythical history, but it’s about the giant all-father and his children and his disappointment with the giants and then the book pulls that material into how giant society functions and judges its members and their actions.

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. Virtually all giants in the game can trace their lineage back to Annam All-Father, the powerful giant god. Rune Magic unlocks the knowledge of a number of runes equal to half of the character's proficiency bonus, which can be inscribed onto objects once per long rest to allow for spellcasting. 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. A character with the Giant Foundling background grew up among giants and leeched some power from their environment, while a Rune Carver learned Rune Magic through diligent work.

Eventually Gygax folded Bigby into the larger Greyhawk lore, making him a founding member of the Circle of Eight, a group of powerful archmages dedicated to safeguarding the inhabitants of the world of Oerth. Delves into unrevealed giant lore, including an overview of the hierarchical structure of the ordning and giants’ religion, and ideas about giants’ organizations and societies across the multiverse.