Basically Giants

[@andthenitateme]

my add to the cloud giants, they are basically "Clout Giants"

[@o9021]

That’s fucking hilarious

[@TheXell]

Do you climb up beanstalks very often? What am I saying, of course you don't.

[@LazyninjaxLNX]

Sassasssssssssasssssssss u

[@LazyninjaxLNX]

Sassasssssssssassssssssss u

[@MilloSpiegel]

The universe came together to allow you to make this joke

[@Fallenmonkd20]

Man imagine being a dragon worrying about this new Giant threat then a tree starts yelling in Giant

[@mauricioos2294]

dragons when the flying boulder starts yelling giant

[@filipevasconcelos4409]

I dunno why, this made me fucking laugh like a maniac

[@theoneandonlydetraebean8286]

Fortunate sons intensifies

[@charlottewalnut3118]

You do realize the Giants were the losers in the last one right that’s why they’re so salty and all hate dragons

[@tatersalad76]

@@charlottewalnut3118 they didn't lose, they just didn't win. And since the dragons didn't win, it's a draw

[@primedecanus5301]

The history of famorians in 3 sentences Fey “you’re ugly on the inside” Fomorians “so are you though” Fey “but now you’re ugly on the outside” Got em

[@gwest3644]

Fomorians: Hey, that ain’t fair. Fey: Well, neither is your face. Heyo!

[@mauricioos2294]

imagine a campaign where giants like to steal entire houses just for prank

[@Scarletraven87]

That's the most stupid thing I heard this month

[@defensivekobra3873]

...that's basically Cloud giants ...so every campain with giant has that. Except for those without houses

[@todinson9054]

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.

[@samuelgodwin6196]

Mauricio Schug I’m going to do that

[@MrBlack0950]

Sounds like a hill giant tbh

[@dracodarkness9518]

Oh, yea, "Jackson and the weird plant that grew maybe just a little too big", my favorite

[@altonsures9475]

"They are the blacksmiths and generals" "To win wars you need generals... Which they are not"

[@sillyking1991]

lol, basically

[@LB-uw5cy]

hmmmmmmmmmm

[@defensivekobra3873]

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

[@shorebreakers96]

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.

[@defensivekobra3873]

@@shorebreakers96 i tried to say the exact same thing but you explained it WAY better and used the correct terminology, so Good job

[@MYG]

I love how instead of comparing Stronmaus to Zeus you call him "Storm Jesus".

[@fuzzyzombielove]

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.

[@720pgang8]

Good shit as always. Probably the best simplified D&D lore channel out there right now.

[@jellykracken4229]

Jaden M. I guess you can say this video was pretty MAUT....eh?

[@peepock7796]

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.

[@MattZaharias]

MrRhex is also excellent. You need to check his channel out if you like this one. All of the "what they don't tell you about xyz" videos are great.

[@pixelcat5725]

@@peepock7796 Yes I love this guy, but I watch Runesmith when I need to laugh

[@peepock7796]

@@pixelcat5725 Same reason I’m here. Mrrhexx is enjoyable but I’ll be damned if runesmith isn’t funny.

[@teedeegremlin]

"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.

[@sqw33k]

Fun fact: "Ordning" is Swedish for order. As in, not chaos. The more you know! ツ

[@Freekymoho]

Same for the other nordic languages

[@DozyBinsh]

Ordnung in German. Yeah surprise they're all cognate :)

[@souffle-d-eclair]

Fun fact: ツ romanized is tsu. :)

[@Dudenob123]

@@DozyBinsh same proto language. Known as old germanic. If you ever visit Denmark you can read abiit half of stuff there.

[@defensivekobra3873]

Ordning och reda :)

[@admiralpepper6933]

7:26 Ah yes I remembered Ganondorf the Fire Giant as well as his thirst for small elven punani and their triangles of power.

[@CL30]

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.

[@defensivekobra3873]

Wtf is your party

[@TerrariaGolem]

@@defensivekobra3873 *Cyric, Midnight, and Kelemvor*

[@kosm999]

If your party is doing that your DMing it wrong.

[@defensivekobra3873]

@@kosm999 you cannot dm wrong tho..

[@Daiyuki117]

@@defensivekobra3873 Someone needs to Google "Craig the DM"

[@superultragamer8245]

“Fire giants are the blacksmiths and generals of giant kind” -5 seconds later- *Great soldiers: aren’t generals*

[@PostProteusKitten]

I came here to say this

[@erlanddrow7950]

I guess they have generals the same way Orcs have generals. They're generals because they're better at fighting, not because they're smart 🙃

[@rock8110]

I KNOW RIGHT

[@somejerk5662]

There's a reason their empire crumbled.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Hey, we’ve got PLENTY of politicians that aren’t particularly good politicians.

[@ianwoloss4689]

"Hi, I'm thirty feet tall, and my dad's vietnam!" - some random giant

[@raddioli]

Y-You mean Vietnamese? *No*

[@thelordscrusaders387]

*fortunate sun intensifies*

[@2lazyt378]

I'm slightly disappointed we didn't get a picture of a thicc giantess

[@vocalvortexstudios2058]

Its just metrona from sds

[@Runesmith]

Same. I was hoping for Canyon from adventure time

[@defensivekobra3873]

@@Runesmith hold up here buckaroo....

[@skullsquad900]

"Oh thank god! We were almost crushed, by her giant Va..." "DUDE! What does your internet history look like?"

[@raistlarn]

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.

[@thegamingchance7531]

Holy shit, I never knew how badly I wanted to run a campaign set during the war between the giants and the dragons

[@lebanemcarl68]

go for it

[@azericthetraveller6355]

That’d be maat

[@defensivekobra3873]

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

[@yourguykhonshu3972]

@@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?

[@kanoslayer2735]

Storm kings thunder would be good for that

[@kingmonster]

"If you go north in any world, you're either Saxton Hale, or your dead." XD GOD. That like got me rollin'.

[@zalanmarkus4939]

SAXTON HALE!!!!!!!

[@Funkin_Disher]

Oh mate, thats Australium right there.

[@Bacxaber]

My dead what?

[@SgtCandy]

2:21 "Do you get to the Cloud District very often?"

[@ProjectBarcodeError]

i laughed harder than i should have. thanks anon

[@fonandoozmando5961]

>forget aboleth are old >giants and dragons are the oldest you mean the creatures that came from before the primordials?

[@A_Spec]

Feed me with your D&D entertainment.

[@lechevalier-ns2pt]

Hi ASpec

[@joule400]

"As i try to make ripple effect happen" Are you going to start breathing exercise?

[@fritzkraut5833]

Golly gee. Is that a Jayjay's wacky quest allusion?

[@meatballman9343]

no first they have to meet a mugger and then a guy with a really cool hat

[@Aplesedjr]

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]

I thought the same thing at first but I think they might actually be large lip rings due to the clout giants love of jewelry and all that

[@vesve]

@@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]

Pretty sure they ARE fangs, and that this is apparently a holdover from earlier editions. Don't quote me on this.

[@vesve]

@@Bluecho4 the first 3 editions cloud giants teeth do match the angle of the ones in that picture. Those are some odd teeth 😅

[@Aplesedjr]

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.

[@dnddude9652]

“It’s like if Australia was covered in snow” PLEASE NO! IT’S ALREADY COLD ENOUGH!

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

KOALAS ARE DYING TO FIRE. *COLD,* YOU SAY?

[@dnddude9652]

@Alexander Evans I know, right?

[@combativeThinker]

@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 Yeah, cold. It’ll need to be a lot hotter to rid the world of those blighters, mate.

[@RayAkuma]

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

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

All stories featuring ancient mythology should start with "In the Relative Beginning..."

[@evannibbe9375]

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.

[@combativeThinker]

@@evannibbe9375 That, or “it is known...” Lol.

[@jackwalls6551]

Firbolg- "am i a joke to you?"

[@TankTaur]

Yes

[@MukuonChannel]

Actually yes.

[@maddoxWolfe]

Jack Walls and goliaths

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

So is Hartkiller, I will always remember you even Jesusier giant Jesus

[@dorca9308]

Fuck giant kin, stupid bastards

[@Spraxinator]

I can now imagine a frost giant and saxton hale fighting and in the distance you hear the occasional SAXTON HAAAALLLLEE

[@DelphanGruss]

"You're either Saxton Hale, or you're dead." Love it.

[@Kurai_69420]

I'm surprised there wasn't a single reference to the Skyrim Space Program

[@MisterSmith00]

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...

[@alexross1816]

I can't stop replaying the "Their big ass footsteps with the Fes and the FiFoFums meant that they owned the place"

[@Jackb290]

Giants, Being quite the tall boy I sympathize with them, though I'm totally just a smart orc.

[@defensivekobra3873]

Etinns are adorable

[@thesparrow1116]

Runesmith claims he only ever left the house 6 days ago for coffee That explains his insane upload rate... God save his soul

[@domagojm7696]

Runesmith: Mentions Saxton Hale My brain: *PROPERTY DAMAGE*

[@imightbethelemongod5943]

SAXTON HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALE!

[@secretsociety1636]

Legend says there is a storm giant living in the original club penguin

[@AmigoRoberto]

Final boss was a storm giant. I made him a literal toddler throwing a giant sized tantrum.

[@coyraig8332]

Did you give him a rattle?

[@AmigoRoberto]

@@coyraig8332 thunder maul

[@coyraig8332]

@@AmigoRoberto so basically yes

[@AmigoRoberto]

@@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

[@coyraig8332]

@@AmigoRoberto you are an evil dm

[@revenantproxy9100]

I appreciate the variation from small fellas to large lads.

[@Aethrin]

Your humor is so awesome. I can see the constant improvement each new video. You seem to be more yourself.

[@jonathanfelix5291]

Man, you're one of my new favorite D&D KZbinrs. I'm really loving the 'Basically' series. Looking forward to much more in the future and keep up the good work!

[@funk8782]

Dude giants are my favorite so glad you made this. Great Npc interactions, a giant king was a fan favorite in my public games.

[@smilemore7431]

9:51 Dude I LOVE the dnd quick guide. Your art is just as good as any pizzcatzo as far as I’m concerned. Love yourself.

[@MrKyel17]

Thumbnail looks like "BASKALLY GIANTS" Great video as always.

[@Moths05]

I thought this was going to be a review of jack and the beanstalk

[@maromania7]

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.

[@Jodamanify]

I'm starting a political campaign against wizards of the coast. "MAKE GIANTS SCARY AGAIN!!!"

[@sillyking1991]

dude....when have giants not been scary?

[@dlastkatipunero2185]

I think you mean active?

[@Jodamanify]

If you look at the stat blocks, they aren't that hard to fight. If you were to 1v1 a giant vs a dragon, dragons come out on top 7/10 times.

[@burningbronze7555]

@@Jodamanify Dragons can not run an economy the giants also have hands and wizards.

[@Aplesedjr]

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.

[@RustoKomuska]

"big Daddy Vietnam is coming home" Nice

[@ackyducc5040]

"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

[@hernehaugen6878]

In fairness if you see an absol before the disaster it's an omen of, you still have time to escape or warn others. That's pretty good luck to me.

[@baddmustardd9169]

One of my fav d&d moments was when me and my party met an entire town of giants on a mountain top, super fun!

[@dakcka]

Logan describing Hill Giants was so unexpectedly beautiful

[@ChestersonJack]

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.

[@jmartinbuzios]

1:17 im pretty sure you meant Dark Sun

[@jamesvincent1512]

I’ve only played a couple sessions of dnd but I’ve been watching your vids for like a year bc of how much I enjoy listening to you explain such an interesting lore in such a comedic way.

[@zanecarlson2285]

“Raiding a bestbuy during a blackout.” 2020:😬😬

[@bravojr]

Dude your weft and weave of the lore proper is amazing, it inspires me every time to new desires of "epic".

[@HunterSentinel]

They had barely any lore in the books so I thank you immensely for sharing with us the actual lore... well approximate lore... according to them.

[@UltimosGabriel]

11:12 Oh my god, I got that bunny stuff "sex joke".

[@deltaphant_]

I would comment about my plans involving giants in my campaign but I know a bunch of my players watch this channel too.

[@light6463]

Risk it

[@BilboBaggMan]

This is probably my favorite video of yours. I just love giants. Idk why.

[@projectj7235]

Never clicked on a video so hard since I'm running storm kings

[@demolisherman1763]

SAXTON HAAALE! *rips yeti in half with bare hands*

[@oyrsimaja]

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!

[@Ingothrial]

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.

[@oyrsimaja]

@@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!

[@Yapaholicsanonymous00]

My first campaign was also my DMs first time playing D&D on either side of the board and he deadass made my Dwarf Barbarian and a Blind Monk fist fight a frost giant.

[@quackmaster1014]

Really dig your video, surprised though that there was no menchon of Firbolgs.

[@blackwell4701]

Love how I came back to this video, purposefully and undoubtably read the title, but then immediately watched the sponsorship and expected the video to be over. Concluding, "Yes, that's definitely the video I was looking at this is fine, very entertaining Mr. Smith of Runes you've made another banger once again- nevermind it was 3 years ago- wait what-"

[@flounderflounder6833]

"Dnd lacks a true sense of scale" truuuuuue

[@ChestersonJack]

Stuff stuff seems like something Stefon on SNL would talk about. “It’s when you take a bunch of midgets-” *covers mouth to keep from laughing* “and see how many you can fit in your mouth without swallowing them”

[@countsnowyofgwainn3996]

"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 ^_^

[@Plainofices]

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.

[@CyprusLLama]

13:24 Still waiting for the final "And that's basically Giants"

[@aloh86]

Just found this channel. Damn, these videos are good. Really good. Nice work, Runesmith.

[@elianisthebrave6988]

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.

[@meman29]

Thank you for uploading! I'm planning a campaign based on a Fomorian being born without the fey curse, and reforming the giant kingdom of old, and this will help greatly!

[@jamesgeorge7579]

7:30, Fire Giants: Blacksmiths and Generals. 7:48, Fire Giants: Aren't Generals

[@cerocero2817]

Now I can't shake the image of Saxton punching a guiralon into a fine red mist.

[@brethnew]

"And that's Basically Giants" You're welcome

[@MrKrossix]

Thank you once again for uploading these kinds of videos! I really enjoy them!!!

[@xanathar8659]

1:03 love the whistle

[@BaeCat872]

Ouu I’m loving that Kickstarter, glad you brought it up

[@letrokid1121]

Runesmith: "On the top of the pantheon is Stronmaus, who's like storm Jesus." Me: "So... Zues... you're trying to say he's like Zues..."

[@xxXXRAPXXxx]

Well that depends how much he fucks around. Jesus-not much. Zeus- fucked EVERYTHING that moved.

[@diphyllum8180]

Giants are really old, in that they date back to near the beginning of this world's "turning," the latest of the grand cycles, from before which even the gods don't have memory for they're born out of the cycle. Aboleths however are older than every turning of every cycle put together, they engineered the first races which gave birth to the first divine beings, of which giants are a subset. Giant memory is incredibly old but even to them, aboleth consciousness is unthinkable, and if one were to look inside the mind of an aboleth and see the true age of the universe, even a giant would go insane

[@SirPonnd]

7:26 You can't fool me. That's just Ganondorf.

[@ayindephulgence4950]

holy shit

[@wolfcalibur1569]

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

[@maximillionchaoswolf]

And the cloud giant is Hannibal Lector.

[@sebastianescalante4710]

I'm making a homebrew campaign all about giants, so this video was perfectly timed and very helpful!

[@unnero1]

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?

[@dford4014]

They aren't giants we're minis!

[@JaketheEmpoleon]

This has gotta be one of the best videos you’ve made

[@CurlySwish666]

Had a good laugh from this. Great "cameo" from Oney. Anyone else preorder the Freddy Freaker plushie?

[@sockrobot5]

Well done! I love these longer videos. Thanks for your efforts!

[@bolyons2155]

Ettins are actual giants, the first was just a runt and thus wasn't accepted by their brethren.

[@polaro.1233]

the storm giants go where no one will ever go, like in a deep trench, a high mountain, mysapce or bing... oof, shots fired

[@kana22693]

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.

[@Deadpoolbang]

Thank you for this! Just about to run SKT for my party and will be watching this on repeat.

[@gmlux2682]

Another video? SO SOON? This upload schedule really is inconsistent.

[@elibartlett6723]

got-em

[@tristantucker7501]

Ok. I am so happy that i rewatched this video, i have had Morose idiots stuck in my head for two weeks and i had no idea where i heard it. Thank you Runesmith

[@oighear4135]

This was a very good video and very informative but it is a shame you forgot about the other Giant-kin the Firbolgs which are the best.

[@remingtonwright6796]

When he covered rock throwing, am I the only one who pictured the beast titan from Attack on Titan in that scene where he crushes a boulder and baseball pitches a shotgun blast of pebbles?

[@bretterry8356]

Why don't YOU go for a walk? I went to the park with my wife and daughter today. We saw ducks.

[@finnmccarthy9768]

A good video series, I shall continue to watch

[@rejvaik00]

Who would win? Ancient and powerful dragons that breathe fire or one Goliath rocky boi?

[@TheStarFishVessel]

Just saw this pop back in my feed. A while ago I watched this video and it inspire a concept for a 5e campaign. It's been going on since, and it's one of my proudest works in terms of story telling, world building, and overall fun at the table. So ya, thanks :)

[@reyesvargas-arriaga4052]

can you make a video about Goliaths rune boy? HOLY THIS IS THE MOST LIKES I HAVE EVERY GOTTEN

[@greenhawk3796]

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.

[@reyesvargas-arriaga4052]

@@greenhawk3796 thanks dude