Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Cloud Giant

Cloud and Fog giants are 3rd and 4th in the rank of the Ordning of all Giants, the Cloud giants consider themselves the rulers of all giants in the to day affairs of their kind, as the Storm giants and Titans tend to keep to themselves so much.
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[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Fog Giants: Cloud Giants you can party with.

[@draxthemsklonst]

Down to earth.

[@joshuazane3210]

😄👌

[@brewticonmohiswarman1584]

Fee Fi Fo Fum! I smell the blood of a crit failed dodge.

[@animefan3794]

That “10 foot sphere of wind” you talk about at the end has me thinking of the Last Airbender. Just imagining a giant jumping up, forming one, sitting on top, and riding it around Air Scooter style.

[@robertwilson2516]

I have to say that Cloud Giants are my favorite giants due to the greater versatility they have for roleplay and mobility. Also I love how you describe Fog Giants as the hillbilly cousins of Cloud Giants.

[@AJPickett]

Well, them there is.

[@Master_E444]

I’ve recently been making a Cloud Giantess NPC who acts as a powerful hero for a nation of smaller humanoids. She is themed after Valkyries and rides on a purebred Roc who retains a lot of the power the original Rocs bred for the dragon war had. Basically a powerful giant heroine who eschews the typical role of Cloud Giants as powerful nobles focused with status and instead fills the role of a sky bound knight who can rival adult dragons.

[@Weirdoid]

Cloud Giants have an acute sense of smell. By saying the incantation "fee fi fo fum" they can tell your nationality by smell alone. ;)

[@mudshrooze]

All the giants and the lore in the dnd world are just so awesome they are some of my all time favorite humanoids. But I'm the wierd one who loves Hill Giants the most

[@jgr7487]

"so who are the real day-to-day leaders of the Giant Species?" that would be the *Clout* Giants, my good AJ!

[@anthonyromasco3528]

In a campaign i ran involving cloud giants, i added a new critter. The Dewfeeder. Imagine a 2-3M tall ostrich with cassowary talons. Grazes on the mosses and lichens that tend to live on cloud islands. They also eat the occasional pests that find their way to the cloud islands(rats,pigeons, seagulls, urd)... The giants love the meat of these birds, and keep herds of them as livestock.

[@AJPickett]

Excellent.

[@anthonyromasco3528]

@@AJPickett if you decide to include them, two things to note. 1:their plumage, which is a mix of white&grey acts as camouflage, and their claws and bite can transmit disease in many cases (45%chance a particular bird is a carrier) I'll leave the derails to your imagination

[@maxthepaladin2147]

Also known as Clout Giants

[@nigelhirth2181]

Earliest I've ever caught one of these ! Excellent video as always!

[@DCJMS]

I like to think Cloud Giants treat slaves of rarer races like show dogs, as in they breed for attractive traits damn the consequences

[@digunder14]

if height is a large part of their status, then likely the storm giants out ranked them just barely do to beating them out in other fields

[@That80sGuy1972]

Great video AJ. These cloud giants differ from my version a tiny bit... I'm a 2nd Ed dinosaur and I homebrewed where the rules did not exist yet. I actually had Cloud Giants (among other giants) capable of grabbing you and hurling you. If they grabbed you, you are now a bolder being thrown at another target. You are treated as said bolder except you can save for half damage on yourself. Player characters will have their melee fighters charge the giant while the archers and wizards stand back and attack from perceived safety only once. When the giant drops his maul and uses his two hand strikes to grab your Barbarian and your Paladin to smear the dangerously offensive magic-using wizard by hurling them at him, the party tactics and respect for the enemy changes drastically and instantly. They suddenly plan their offense and defense as if they are fighting something that towers over them in stature and physical power. I'm also old enough to remember that "Fog Giants" were originally more evil-leaning Cloud Giants that lived in foggy areas... and they were still called "Cloud Giants". I think a couple AD&D novels changed that, I'm not sure. I'm not gonna' lie... human/humanoid form Cloud Giants were pretty much used in every campaign I ran. My players almost always believed his/her special strengths and powers were magic item based. Oh, and cloud castles/complexes in my campaigns are technomancy based, the pure magical form being long extinct as sections were swapped out over the centuries for such machinations. I did that to get certain Cloud Giants to interact with "ground-dwellers" more pro-actively. A "cloud" would descend to the top of the Technomancers' Guild spire while some trusted high-ranking guildsmen would go there to "research weather control"... where they are actually hired out to crawl within their machinery to fix & maintain the aging "new" gear.

[@brightglory5734]

I'm not going in the water for anything but these guys fuck'em I don't mind a climb. Golden eggs, singing harps, englishmen bread I'm stealing all their shit.

[@alotosius]

Never ask a Cloud Giant how to get to cloud 9.

[@axepoison255]

You tricked me into doing something useful. I resent this.

[@logancole5101]

Imagine being a half giant and how that would feel. (If it even exists in the game.) Especially a cloud giant. have to plant a beanstalk every time you want to go to your parents house on {Insert holiday here}. But at least the food isn't burnt. *stares at the Fire giant*. Good video as always.

[@AfroChef]

Giant lore is indeed very rich. I quite enjoy the difference in their concepts of good and evil, and even though its unfair, the pecking order they live by certainly offers me more as a Dm than just having all giants get along hunky dory

[@daniell1483]

Working my way through this playlist, and it sort of changed my view of Cloud Giants a bit. I always thought of them as more intentionally snobish, not evil per se, but just generally unpleasant. Seeing them portrayed as heroes in the war against the dragons gives them an air of nobility. If Storm Giants are the monarchs, Cloud Giants are like the king's greatest vassals and such. I get the sense that they leave the more labor-intensive work to their Fire and Frost kin, while the Cloud Giants fancy themselves as more like artists and artisans. Something like that, anyway. Thanks for the video.

[@eldarhighelfhealermiriella7653]

19:36 Imagine beeing just a regular but attractive peasant like Brad Pitt and then get kiddnaped by a Cloud Giant for his teenage daugther to put on a dollhouse.

[@lemankurtz8950]

That slightly turned me on.....am I a degenerate? No, probably a reprobate.

[@charlottewalnut3118]

That’s macrophilia

[@markadelhoch1063]

That’s how we got Goliaths right?

[@psyberklown3434]

Why hasn't someone made a 'Your Highness' campaign setting yet, also back on topic great vid.

[@jacobwilson8579]

Since you have done da Orks from 40k have ya thought of doing a video on the Eldar and Necrons

[@AJPickett]

Tau first, of course.

[@justinjacobs1501]

Perfect timing. Just rolled up a Goliath who's mum is a cloud giant. He's a Rune Knight War Mage. (Wanted to be able to cast Enlarge/Reduce in addition to the Rune Knight's ability to become large.)

[@justinjacobs1501]

At level eight they will be able to deal 12d6+4d4 in one round with their greatsword. They'll also be huge with the effective physical abilities of a gigantic creature. I mean, who doesn't want to be able to grapple an adult dragon?

[@markadelhoch1063]

I love that idea. I’m thinking of creating a Goliath rune knight that is on a romantic quest after spotting a beautiful cloud giantess. He wants to win her over but needs size. I’ll need to seek out war mage info.

[@michaelclark6941]

I love when you give suggestions for new attacks. I make little quests out of them, and players that know the monster manual like getting a surprise.

[@richlong7705]

Should have been at triple digit subscribers like MrRhexx long ago. Outstanding content.

[@AJPickett]

MrRhexx produced a lot of excellent computer gaming videos before he switched over to the tabletop stuff, so, he's done well in building a huge subscriber base.. smart man.

[@richlong7705]

Been watching since 2015. Ecstatic to see the channel take off. Appreciate all of your videos.

[@SageofCancer]

I know that naked giant lady! That's Atali, daughter of Thrym from Conan Omnibus 1! Enlarge a Helm of Opposite Alignment. See if the Cloud Giant puts it on or not. The benefits and consequences are sure to be H U G E

[@gammagong9435]

Beanstalk that leads to a cloud giant green house? How much would seeds like that sell for? Sounds like a sidequest :)

[@AJPickett]

Sounds like a side salad :)

[@Master_E444]

Sounds like a fortune to be made selling them to Nature Spirits and Druids who happen to have more coin then business sense

[@unknownnope7543]

very nice gonna use this soon

[@dmstantastic3653]

Extremely well done as usual. I'm excited about a Goliath remastered video as I have a storyline in my homebrew where a descendant of Hartkiller is restoring the giant empire as a Greek themed Goliath empire.

[@jameslightfoot1872]

they should eat 64 times as much as a human. Body mass is a cubic function, not a squared function. 4 times as tall means 64 times as massive.

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, but they are on a paleo-low carb- gluten free diet trend.

[@eMercody]

Not necessarily, when you are such a large creature it takes less energy to maintain metabolism compared to a human. For example a mouse needs to eat their body weight, humans do not.

[@An_Ian]

@@eMercody True but magic is a thing and most giants would physically die under their own weight IRL

[@eMercody]

@@user-tx7bm7kl2y you are incorrect, only the body mass would be x64, what that means for the lifestyle and needs of a giant is up for speculation.

[@treyfitzpatrick9533]

Always a great day to get new content from you AJ.

[@andreaferrini99]

Just a couple things Cloud Giant Smiling Ones are not in Storm King's Thunder, and neither are Elemental Cloud Giants. Aside from that, great video, I'm currently running SKT so your remastered videos came at the right time!

[@Sgt-Wolf]

6:30 So what you are saying is link from zelda is a cloud giant or at least half giant?

[@AJPickett]

Half Voadkyn

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Does it bug anyone else their weapons and magic have a reach of 1/8 their size despite the imagery and description making it seem like it should match their size?

[@lucashamrock817]

I agree

[@mondaysinsanity8193]

Yeah no id homebrew a cloudgiant to have 20 ft reach atleast

[@trajanfidelis1532]

These giants are pretty damn cool. Patiently waiting for the next giant video.

[@Giles29]

I remember playing in an adventure where the PC's are hired as exterminators to clear out "pests" in the castle of a cloud giant. The "pests" were all popular cartoon characters, like Sylvester the Dire Tiger and Whattamouse, an awakened, singing, flying dire rat. About drove us crazy, but we got them all out of the castle. Didn't actually have to fight the cloud giant, he was the one who hired us.

[@vernonhampton5863]

I recently introduced a cloud giant into my game that looks like Ziggy Stardust. I will incorporate more lore thanks to this video

[@johndavidson2365]

Fee fie foe fum, I smell the blood of an AJ man!

[@lucasdurham-styles3169]

nice! my favorite giant

[@joshuazane3210]

Great depth on this one! I learned quite a lot. Thanks for that 😃

[@Lurklen]

Great vid AJ, like the rules around the hurling of carts and making giant attacks area of effect.I'm a big fan of giants, more so now as I look into the D&D lore, and your videos on them are always great fodder for inspiration. Could you help a fellow out with the link to the image of the lady archer at 0:57 ? She is exactly the reference I need for a PC of one of my players.

[@rustyschackleford4762]

Love these lore videos.

[@OldBaldWookiee]

Thanks for another great video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Most welcome Brian.

[@Greenscyth22]

I always like the idea of evil Cloud Giants over good ones. It should be a surprise to adventurers whether or not the beautiful cloud kingdom they arrive at is secretly their boon or their doom. It's questionable if evil Cloud Giants would even let outsiders get that close though. Like haughty giant aristocracy, I likened them to Aztec or Mayan royalty living on floating stone temples with terraced areas for agriculture and animal husbandry to appease their rich lifestyles. Although maybe I'm thinking that because of the image from the old advanced D&D monsters manual pictured at 2:23 .

[@OverboardDM]

Good video AJ

[@phurbur]

Thank you for the continuous Giant coverage. The Giant kin video made me think of the Children of Neth from the Plane that Lives because I imagined them at least as big as a Firbolg but as knowledgable as a Storm or Cloud Giant :)

[@basshunters.thompson7170]

Fascinating *Response designed to massage the algorihtm*

[@draxthemsklonst]

Al who?

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

woow that's some fine editing AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thank RedNZblue 😊

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

*Relevant and Supportive Comment*

[@kendrickrochelanzot2053]

I love giants ALOT. I have a cloud giant by the name of Eisen. He basically looks like a fire giant and Zeus. Very wide and wears heavy armor and weilds a great axe. Edit: his eyes are not visible.

[@Gryphon2026]

I absolutely loved this video and I cant wait to be able to get back and listen to some more!🤓🤓🤓

[@chriscalvin5083]

good video AJ

[@HowtoRPG]

Thanks AJ.

[@DatcleanMochaJo]

Where did you find some of the art? It looks so cool. Especially the pictures at 2:07.

[@jtjames79]

Have you considered running your Skyrim screen captures through a style transfer AI? That's what I do and it works great. 👍 The output is low resolution if you use a free service. A quick pass through waifu2x fixes that right up.

[@AJPickett]

Waifu?!

[@jtjames79]

@@AJPickett VHS won against Beta because VHS head pron. Try not to think about the name, it's an exceptional AI based resizing tool, there's even a desktop Windows CPU implementation. So you don't even need special hardware. Waifu2x. My other primary editing tool is called the GIMP. Technically it had smart fill before Photoshop did. So yeah the name could actually be worse. Edit: Since the AI was trained on waifu, that's its name. Regardless it doesn't really good job upsizing, and cleaning style transfer artifacts, with one magic button. Well little more complicated than that but not much. Edit 2: also free as in speech, and as in 🍻.

[@AJPickett]

@@jtjames79 GIMP is pretty good. My experience with photoshop is... well, I just don't like it.

[@austinbostrom5304]

Did you ever make that rune magic video? It sounds fascinating 🤔

[@AJPickett]

Check out the channel 'Detect Magic' he has lots of vids on arcana.

[@thevoidcritter]

So wait, was the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk just a really dumb cloud giant?

[@Sgt-Wolf]

Yes.

[@skyanimal]

Menu at 18:45: Stir Fried Bat.

[@baconlover7747]

Ill pass.......

[@trenthobson2756]

We all know what's gonna happen if you eat that. . .

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Urge to slay giants building !

[@Sgt-Wolf]

"RISIIIING!"

[@jackiesantos2121]

Well like dragons Giants are complete can sometimes yeah

[@Janshevik]

Speaking of Rocs, has even anyone made a video about them?

[@danyelahtabaat4808]

Orks,trolls,ogre,.... whats the 3rd one?

[@Horusbonrea]

Are flame skulls or an overview of why undead fire is green anywhere in the making?

[@KuLaydMahn]

I think hes done a video on flame skulls. He may be due for an updated versiom though. Check the larger monster ecology playlist

[@AJPickett]

Green fire being an undead thing is just an artistic convention, there is no other reason behind it :) Flame Skulls video (along with a lot of undead vids) are due for a remake.

[@Horusbonrea]

@@AJPickett that's interesting but also a bit saddening that theres no lore reason behind it, I generally just attribute it as the influence of negative energy mixing with the fire. I had asked because I was working on a crypt of a mad flame sorcerer who burned himself and all of his apprentices in a ritual gone wrong. Taking the flame skull concept but make a full skeleton out of it for him with the apprentices being flame skulls for a hit and run non stop cackling everything is on fire why did we come here good time

[@volstadgermaine2510]

I Like that. Cloud giants always seemed like the Aristocracy of The Giant Empire. Storm Giants are like priests, or sages, important, but in a different way. Cloud Giants were more.... "Let them eat cake!" My lessons in humility to my Deity make me dislike this, but my Lord fathers lessons in tasteful opulence make me recall the lifestyle fondly.

[@zmishiymishi5349]

Now it all come to conclusion. Anam is a god of tall... Like is this his domain or what?

[@sirgideonofnir6840]

So ummm... female giants are hot

[@irontemplar6222]

Indeed

[@lemankurtz8950]

Yeah, but even if you're hung like a horse, that's not good enough......

[@Almighty_Mage]

@@lemankurtz8950 which is exactly why my fairy is a rune knight with certain um...goals

[@erroneous6947]

I run a wizard with a half frost giant daughter. He agrees with you.

[@Qatell1000]

Hey have you done a half orc or half elf yet

[@AJPickett]

Not yet.

[@Qatell1000]

AJ Pickett can’t wait these two plus tieflings are my favorite races

[@carlosadriangonzalezguzman2239]

im here for one matter and just that. What the F with the fangs? I originally though those were like piercings, jewelry and the sorts. But then i checked on earlier versions of the cloud giants and no, fangs. Also Countess sansuri art form storm king thunder doesn't have those, but then Blagothuks and his son appear to have them. But then there are versions were males dont have fangs either. There is no description about this, neither on the wiki, nor the monster manual not even on SKT.

[@AJPickett]

It's just a quirk of their kind.

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

They look down upon the poor huh? Would what the Giant Gesus Do? ...would He Just pick them up and toss em like a rock?!

[@kal-el702]

is it bad that I had my pcs fight a cloud giant and he tried stepping on them then when that didn't work he grabbed the mallet, and killed one of my pcs and the pcs pretty much became rouches to a cloud giant... yah...

[@Gryphon2026]

Depends on your perspective. 🤣🤣🤣🤓

[@TheBigGuppy]

It amazes me that people in New Zealand would have heard of Dukes of Hazard 😀😀😀. American TV ain’t that good.

[@TheSteelGuy]

We don't make a lot of local TV down here, so we get a lot of shows from America, Britain, etc. And yeah, you're not always sending us your best. ;)

[@AJPickett]

I was about the right age to witness the full power of Daisy Duke.

[@floppa2154]

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