You know, Giants are said to be legendary creatures worthy of high level adventurers...

You know, Giants are said to be legendary creatures worthy of high level adventurers... so why do dragons get all the infamy and credit? Where are all the campaigns about giants?

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What's the betting on OP making this thread just to post that picture?

Guaranteed, or is there some sucker dumb enough to believe OP doesn't know about all the adventures that feature giants?

yea this is fetish bait

Giants are generally big beatsticks who can't fly, breathe fire, or cast spells. Unless they're also wizards. Then it's a campaign against an evil wizard, and the fact that he's also a giant is basically incidental.

this

plus the most popular RPG line in history is called dungeons & dragons. you might as well be asking why so many adventures feature dungeons

There is no real difference between trolls, giants, and ogres

Against the Giants is one of the best series of adventures D&D has ever had.

And Storm giants are all spellcasters, and no one mistakes them for being reduced to "evil wizard" enemies.

Has it occurred to any of you that your complaints have less to do with RPGs and more to do with the fact that you haven't played any RPGs?

Itt: underage kids who don't know the G series

I don't think anyone complained at all.

Just a few people pointed out the obvious. Your being defensive about nothing.

Saged.

>These aren't complaints
>Just rhetorical questions implying their own answers and snide responses affirming those conclusions

Right?

>Your

Depends on the game. In D&D there is a huge difference. Trolls are nasty, solitary creatures that regenerate quickly and are one hell of a fight all by themselves. Giants are communities of high-level baddies living in remote parts of the world that must be quested to. Ogres are the big guns of goblin kind, and fit in well with low level campaigns against them, sorta the step up from hobgoblins and bugbears.

A giant is literally the featured 5e monster on the cover.

Giants tend to be less inherently hostile than dragons are, usually known for being isolationist rather than outright malevolent. So basically if you go looking for giants to slay you're just a jackass and not some grand hero.

>Giants tend to be less inherently hostile than dragons are
Hill giants, frost giants, fire giants, and 50% of cloud giants are assholes in every version of D&D.

G 1-2-3
Liberation of Geoff
RC Pinell's G4-8
Basic Fantasy's Saga of the Giants
Pathfinder's Giantslayer AP

Depends on the game and setting. D&D typically presents trolls as borderline retarded even compare to orcs et al and without any real culture. Ogres are low-level midbosses and elite troop. Giants meanwhile are high-level asskickers.

I love this image. It's like the woman warrior has come to slay the giant cause all the men can't without being enthralled by her looks.

It's kind of like Beowulf in a way, where the heroes keep fucking up and having sex with the monsters instead of slaying them, which just results in more monsters for future generations to kill.

OP is a textbook sad little man. Just filter the word "giants" for OP comments on Veeky Forums and you'll never see him again. What, have you ever seen someone talk about giants on this board without it being assburger fetish stuff? You're missing out on nothing by filtering.
Don't forget to sage before posting, and also don't use an image - image posts bump even if saged!

Oh that's a good comparison.

After several generations of male heroes, the Beowulf family finally leaves the bloodline in the hands of a female heir. She goes around cleaning up the mess of several generations as the charisma of the monsters don't work on her.

Until she falls in love with a monster she was meant to kill, has sex and results in the first human monster hybrid in the Beowulf family.

>haven't played that module = haven't played any RPGs

Sure kid

Most people just think of giants as scaled up humans, which doesn't have the same draw as a magical lizard

I agree that is a bit of a problem, which is why I think that giants should typically either be gods (if the pantheon is really big in the number of gods it has), demi-gods (if the gods are particularly lusty), or humans who have obtained immense power over time (much like any RPG adventurer will eventually manage to do if he lives long enough)

>filters the word "giants"
>still finds thread of things he doesn't like to post in it.

Hmmmm.

There's nothing stopping you from running a Macross campaign.

You use the wrong word.
Giants are lame was middle of the road monsters.
Titans on the other hand are the true force.

Feels like Giants would be so much easier to deal with in that setting. What would be a good story reason to explain their size? Genetic engineering? Low gravity, oxygen rich planets?

Is there supposed to be some meaningful difference between the two or by Titans are you just saying "really big giants"?

Titans are larger than giants and are creatures of divinity.

Divine as in gods, or demi-gods? How big are we talking about? Is this from a specific setting you had in mind?

I've seen this pic a dozen times and I only just realized she's sitting on an ice wall, I thought she was squatting...

Titans are on the same tier as Olympian gods.

I'm afraid I must disagree.

Giants are on the same tier as Olympians, that's why there's the Gigantomachy.

The Titans were an earlier race of gods than the Olympians, and were more powerful than them or giants.

This is why the Olympians, in the Titanomachy, allied with the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes. The latter forging divine weaponry for the Olympians to better even the odds.

Also, the Giants (or Gigantes, if you prefer) sometimes had snake legs.

Quick reminder that, in the original Beowulf, Grendel's mother was a hideous scaly creature, and was not golden Angelina Jolie, complete with giga-boobs.

>Man still goes out of his way to post in a thread he hates, to talk about how much he hates it.

>Squatting.
>Slavic Ice giant

So what is the best way to include Giants in a science fantasy setting with space travel? Any tips, tricks, or ideas?

Or should we just take the time to make a collaborative setting?

Due to the difficulty of long-distance space travel, all the spacefaring races had to make themselves tiny. The giants are just regular-sized people.

Nah, they were complaining.

And you are projecting.

>It's kind of like Beowulf in a way, where the heroes keep fucking up and having sex with the monsters instead of slaying them

You have never read Beowulf

>woman warrior

What the fuck are you talking about?

>knows nothing of giants or their lore in anything ever

Jesus fuck at least read "Jack and the Beanstalk"

>Giants are lame was middle of the road monsters.
>I am literally pulling shit out of my ass

Not him but the person looking up has a braid?(I think that's what it's called) because only women can have those :^)

>So what is the best way to include Giants in a science fantasy setting with space travel

You have people who are huge.

Done.

Macrofags need to fuck right off.

Very gravity planets and generations of adaptation.
Genetic modification.
Simulations.

Or a combination of those.

>only women can have those

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>making a giant planet defense robot
>don't give it a vertical facing camera
>instead it has front facing eyes so it has to crane it's neck like a slack jawed idiot.

A tiny race would be fun.

I'm just wondering what cool story things to use for them. Why would they go through with all that?

Humanity, while industrious, is not always known for their planning

I know that, but the user that originally made the claim apparently doesn't.

Giants are just really tall people.

They're sort of boring compared to dragons, which are these weird flying lizard things that look really scary (and are dangerous in proportion to how scary they look).

That's actually a really good way of going about it, although I think it wouldn't necessarily be space travel that cause the populations to shrink themselves but rather overpopulation. Which would also explain why all the "giants" are primitive (in comparison to the spacefaring races).

I would very enthusiastically fuck a hideous scaly creature and have zero interest in celebrity women

But Beowulf would not

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You don't know that, there are some missing parts of Beowulf, aren't there?

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got my hopes up and dashed them all away

Mine too, man. Mine too.

Source?

youtube.com/watch?v=J79O5mEjcZ0

Make us.

giantesses suck, human-sized ogresses are way more gropable

Thank you.

I would fucking punch that kid for interrupting us

the love between a giantess and a human is the purest form of love in existence

Dragons have better rep
Most people think of giants as big brutes

>what is Against the Giants
>what is Ragnarok
go learn some rpg history instead of posting soft core size difference porn
sage

>Most people think of giants as big brutes
Why ARE giants characterized as immensely stupid? There's exceptions of course, but it seems like the expectation is for them to be not all that bright.

There's actually a decent amount of representations of them as wise old guys, the dumb giants tend to be more animalistic like ogres, trolls and the like.

Another option is that space travel is more efficient and therefor cheaper for smaller races, they're the big space explorers, "giants"/normal races expand/explore very slowly

People think dumb==big
Also, very poor cultural education of stuff like

Aren't giants found in myths like Beowulf actually Nephilim made from fallen angels interbreeding with humans (and then all killed when the flood happened)? That might explain their propensity for evil, being the descendent of a demon or Cain was the kind of thing that would get you described as automatically evil in ancient myths.

In a lot of stories giants can be blustering, arrogant, and short sighted, so the clever hero can defeat them using hit wits.

Usually so humans have a chance against them

Grendel is described as a descendant of Cain but I don't remember anything about the Nephilim in there.

shes a qt, i want to ask for her hand in marriage...while sitting in it

>American brainlet who doesn't know that the "sons of God" where Seth's kids and the "daughters of men" were Cain's kids

I think it's from Arthurian Romances where giants were the only people that ever acted completely unchivalrously and just tortured people for fun. It gave knights an unreedeemable enemy to go up against

One thing about that which interests me is that you can have one player in a Macross style Variable Fighter and another just be big. I like the idea of teaming up with something so huge, dangerous, but friendly.

Well of course (you) would, Wayne, but Beowulf wasn't a regular on Veeky Forums.

Honeymoon night between those two is going to be very sticky for him.

holy shit you still exist

praise GUTS!

Well they are in most mythologies primal creatures and that usually correlates to barbaric, though that is a miss representation of the myths. In Norse mythology for one giants are equal if not more intelligent as men and gods. In Greek myths there's no distinctive difference between men and any form of giant intelligence wise as much as they are in a sense cultural differences (cyclops being conceited herders and favorite children of Poseidon so they simply languish in hedonistic pleasure and wanton disregard for human lives with whatever hobby they picked up). But the problem is in these representationa is that the stories needed to have a degree of humanity fuck yeah so these physically weaker beings had to outsmart the Giants, making them come off as Brutes and morons in translation.

If they're dumb troglodytes then they can just wander around on their lonesome doing primitive shit or otherwise fuck off to do whatever dumb shit giants do. It raises less questions than if they were smarter/more advanced/had larger societies.

Not to say that's impossible to do, but I can see why someone would want to stick with the former rather than try and deal with the latter.

No matter how much you like traps, the green-caped warrior in OP's pic is not a girl (male).

Here, figured this thread could use this handy chart.

Snakes don't have legs you idiot.

One can hope.

Eberron campaign setting in D&D (esp. 3.5E) has some fantastic giant-related material.

From lore to mechanics to DM and player options to actual solid campaign material.

Seriously, if you like giants check it out. Even if you don't play D&D, much can be incorporated.

that dragons looking a little chubby, to much snacking on late night adventurers

I like giantessed who use their... assets to their advantage, knowing how much it will throw even mighty male adventurers off their game.

[Spoiler] also because I'm a perverse pleb [/spoiler]

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Just be glad she isn't hungry, a full dragon is a nice dragon.

she looks upset, i want to make her smile

Look at her face. She looks just... sad... she doesn't look harmful... maybe she wants a friend, but can't find anyone to befriend because she's the size of a warlord titan.

She needs a buddy.

You'd be sad too if all potential friends ran away screaming in terror the second they saw your enormous ass.

i'd gladly be her best friend!

" Now now, quit struggling so much..."
>She looks down at the human on her titanic breast, with a half smile.
What a brazen human that one is. Maybe she'd eat him last, let him enjoy his final hours on her titty flesh...
"Enough pondering, in you go," she says, as she tosses the man in her hand down her gullet.

[Spoiler] there is something wrong with me, please, help [/spoiler]