The Problem with Giants in D&D

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@pointyhatstudios
@pointyhatstudios Ай бұрын
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum 😤
@Latverian-Citizen-8172
@Latverian-Citizen-8172 Ай бұрын
I smell the blood of an English man
@spacybird606
@spacybird606 Ай бұрын
I wanna watch your pet man child green screen his ass up a bean stalk IMMEDIATELY!
@spacybird606
@spacybird606 Ай бұрын
I wanna watch your human familiar green screen up a bean stalk NOW!
@minraxbeasimp1976
@minraxbeasimp1976 Ай бұрын
@@Latverian-Citizen-8172Be he alive, or be he dead
@magmati55
@magmati55 Ай бұрын
​@@minraxbeasimp1976I'll grind his bones to make my bread
@gunplasm86
@gunplasm86 Ай бұрын
Missed opportunity to title the video "D&D's Giant Problem"
@Corvus-Xoriat
@Corvus-Xoriat Ай бұрын
he can change the title.
@HoodSamurai300
@HoodSamurai300 Ай бұрын
That would have been wicked
@sunshines4898
@sunshines4898 Ай бұрын
Dangit
@diageesen4468
@diageesen4468 Ай бұрын
YEAH
@keiroty7187
@keiroty7187 Ай бұрын
Hilarious
@ShadestheMothman
@ShadestheMothman Ай бұрын
Planet giants are NOT where I thought this video was going but I love it. I’m taking that for my homebrew setting immediately
@yoshikoizumi7851
@yoshikoizumi7851 Ай бұрын
Random plot idea: Earth is a Collossus woman named Gaia who grew so large she became a Planet herself, with her daughter Luna randomly breaking off of her when she herself grew big enough living on/in her mother. Centuries later Gaia wakes up, not feeling the touch of her daughter anymore and uses her gravitational field to pull Luna back into her loving embrace. the players, feeling the energy shifting the moons movement have to either stop this reunion from happening or find another way to save the lives of everything living on the Planet
@jotunr
@jotunr Ай бұрын
Make it an imminent collision, three days from the start of the campaign, but also give the players a handy heavenly artifact that resets time to the dawn of the first of the three days, now they have to rush to get the mcguffins that'll awaken the other sleeping colossi on the planet to stop the crash, also the BBEG has a cool cursed mask.
@NoahOMorainRush
@NoahOMorainRush Ай бұрын
Ngl that story prompt is sick as FUCK
@digitaljanus
@digitaljanus Ай бұрын
​@@jotunr A majora-ly cursed mask? 😊
@Jest1447
@Jest1447 Ай бұрын
"Luna come here for a second."
@keiroty7187
@keiroty7187 Ай бұрын
That’s pretty much Greek mythology
@drewforchic9083
@drewforchic9083 Ай бұрын
There are enough giants with Flying Castles in various settings that the idea that the floating rock they're on is actually one of their ancestors is pretty fun.
@jonasscheftner8545
@jonasscheftner8545 29 күн бұрын
that makes the term "ancestral home" take on a new meaning. it's a good idea
@trikepilot101
@trikepilot101 28 күн бұрын
Beanstocks optional.
@Fitcher007
@Fitcher007 Ай бұрын
There was a post, if I'm not mistaken, on Reddit, where a GM was asking for advice on how to get out of this: in his lore, there was a giant mountain in the center of the continent, but it wasn't on the map. And his players wondered where the mountain had gone. Most of the comments on the post voted for "The mountain just went away."
@cosmonaut2684
@cosmonaut2684 Ай бұрын
14:40 The reason why the 5th edition art of Firbolgs is so weird is because its depicting a subrace called fey touched firbolg, in older editions all firbolg art depicted them as just tall men.
@NoahOMorainRush
@NoahOMorainRush Ай бұрын
I thought the 5e firbolgs felt vaguely fey-themed! They seem so out of place otherwise but I love them anyway
@Filloax
@Filloax Ай бұрын
​@@NoahOMorainRushThey're explicitly fey themed, not vaguely I'd say
@ParmesanTries
@ParmesanTries Ай бұрын
Tis another case of 5e only touching on a small part of a really cool subject
@Silencedmage708
@Silencedmage708 Ай бұрын
That still doesn't really explain where it comes from, and nothing comes from nowhere in D&D lore, as the video seems to insinute. D&D always takes mythology and runs it through a blender to make its stories, in this case Irish and Scottish mythology, with a little Roman history thrown in. While the Firbolgs are one of the mythological proto-peoples of Ireland, their blue skinned and red haired appearance in 5e is based on the Scottish Picts, the real proto-people of Scotland who mixed with Gaul immigrants to create the modern Scots. However the Firbolg's appearance in 5e is based on the Pict's romanticized appearance as told by roman soldiers, rather than any accurate historical appearance. The Romans who came to Scotland described "giant blue demons", a native people they called the Picts who were large and red haired, entering battle naked save for blue woad bodypaint. However none of what the roman soldiers described is supported by archaeological or historical evidence, falling squarely in myth, and no one is really sure why the soldiers made these stories up, or if they didn't, what people they were actually describing.
@gratuitouslurking8610
@gratuitouslurking8610 29 күн бұрын
@@NoahOMorainRush My brother in the feywild they literally had Fey Ancestry as a trait
@asurafire5386
@asurafire5386 Ай бұрын
Othea being like: “is it me? Am I the drama? I don’t think I’m the drama… Maybe I am. Am I the villain? I don’t think I’m the villain.”
@uzunaruMelonness
@uzunaruMelonness Ай бұрын
"Othea! Piper down. Some of us are working ere!" The Fire giant turns towards the raging wildfire. "As I was saying Logi, dis dragon claimed to burn down that orrest. Could you image dat?" The Wildfire howls, "That nerve of that lizard! I was there! I was the fire!" "Yeah, I know..."
@DucksAndCatnip
@DucksAndCatnip 20 күн бұрын
@@uzunaruMelonness who is logi?
@uzunaruMelonness
@uzunaruMelonness 20 күн бұрын
@@DucksAndCatnip The Fire giant turns toward the speaker. "Ey! Logi! This one not know the Jötunn." The wildfire merges into a single form. The body of massive giant emerges. "I am Logi. I am the Fire! Some know me as Halogi!"
@DucksAndCatnip
@DucksAndCatnip 20 күн бұрын
@@uzunaruMelonness ha, logi. what a whimiscal and name. hello!
@VictorLHouette
@VictorLHouette Ай бұрын
14:18 - Irish person here. Not even remotely mad - the cloudy skies and endless rain? You clearly know our lands well!
@RoBoDaN91
@RoBoDaN91 Ай бұрын
Also an Irish person, not mad just disappointed he didn't show off his Irish accent. I forget the name but it reminds of the Spanish footballer who learned English in Ireland (I want to say it was somewhere like Navan) but all he picked up was "Tesco car park" in the accent of the area he went to as a teen.
@atsukana1704
@atsukana1704 Ай бұрын
Ah but that sounds delightful to some
@peaderdoyle7095
@peaderdoyle7095 Ай бұрын
100%! I always laugh when non-Irish are like “oh Ireland is just endless rain, oh wait that’s offensive”…. its not offensive, it’s just true. And tbh, it’d be weird if there was less rain
@trikepilot101
@trikepilot101 28 күн бұрын
Dat's why she's green.
@lorisuprifranz
@lorisuprifranz Ай бұрын
19:00 I was just thinking that d&d giants actually aren't big enough and that's might be why they aren't as popular. 8 meters for the average Storm Giant and 5 meters for almost all the others isn't really that much, there are a lot of monsters whose entire gimmick isn't just being big that are around those sizes. So It's a nice twist the having giants continuously grow, but I'll also make them bigger by default in my games
@ka_tan6203
@ka_tan6203 Ай бұрын
You have read my mind. I'm putting together a campaign based around giants right now! Thank you!
@clarkside4493
@clarkside4493 25 күн бұрын
The highest CR giants in Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants are actually sleeping in a "cradle" that you have to fight before you wake the giant and fight it. So the whole "getting so big they eventually become a planet" actually has some mechanics to back it up.
@FreeFenrirWorks
@FreeFenrirWorks Ай бұрын
My grancle told me when I was young that the mountains and hills of Alicante were all giants that lay to sleep. Thank you to make me remember those days!!
@Baaluluna
@Baaluluna Ай бұрын
I'm a huge giant fan & you've hit on a lot of the ideas I've been thinking about for a long time! My least favorite thing about d&d giants is that they're usually shorter than dragons, thats dumb. I love the idea of giants who never stop growing. I put an undead giant in one of my campaigns, one who had "died" but was still technically "alive" so has been growing all this time. They were underwater, laying on a ruined castle, their arm as long as the largest castle. Then the party remembered "wait... there are Ostoria ruins in these waters... THIS GIANT IS BIGGER THAN AN ANCIENT GIANT CASTLE!" It was a very cool scene. Also, I have what I think is a fun take on the "Annam is the creator of everything" stuff. In the giant barbarian subclass, one of their abilities uses the word "demiurge". That confused me so much, until I had the random thought "what if Annam is the Demiurge", & then I got to thinking on that & I love it so much! Annam didn't create all of existence, he just thinks he did & passes that knowledge down to him creations. Giants are all about the Ordning, & Annam believes he's at the top, but there are those above him, his creators & their creators.
@nocturneindreamminor541
@nocturneindreamminor541 26 күн бұрын
This actually works so well for the Celtic/norse inspired setting I’m creating! In Norse mythology, the body of the giant Ymir was used to create the Earth
@bifflechips-t5r
@bifflechips-t5r Ай бұрын
Once I finish my current long campaign, am planning to pivot to short campaigns and non-DnD games, and one of these was to figure out a Giants mini campaign since they're the creature type I've yet to really use, so this is perfect!
@4_Fox_Sake
@4_Fox_Sake Ай бұрын
New measurement metric of “wine barrels tall” is hilarious!
@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket
@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Ай бұрын
You mean intuitive right?
@NoahOMorainRush
@NoahOMorainRush Ай бұрын
Have you ever looked up the actual definition of a "butt ton"?
@thatHARVguy
@thatHARVguy 26 күн бұрын
@@NoahOMorainRush *checks notes* "Butt" was a medieval unit of measurement for wine. Technically, a "butt-load" of wine is 129 gallons (475 liters).
@NoahOMorainRush
@NoahOMorainRush 26 күн бұрын
@@thatHARVguy Huzzah! A man of culture!
@jillianbaillesderr-roy9275
@jillianbaillesderr-roy9275 29 күн бұрын
You've written a lot of bangers, Antonio, but this is I think your best idea yet. The ever-growing giants, the Collosi becoming planets, the second coming of the giant/dragon wars - sick as hell!
@lugusss
@lugusss Ай бұрын
I love how the silliest references on those vídeos like "THE WAR" triggers my echolalia VEEEERY hard
@Psilo-gn1sx
@Psilo-gn1sx Ай бұрын
Bro no way, literally 30 minutes ago I was workshopping a barbarian butcher who's helping his chef friend perfect his signature dish.
@HitDieProductions
@HitDieProductions Ай бұрын
That sounds like a cool idea, very creative!
@cameronsitton501
@cameronsitton501 29 күн бұрын
Sweeney Todd???
@Psilo-gn1sx
@Psilo-gn1sx 29 күн бұрын
​@@cameronsitton501 the chef is another player, the contested heir to a noble merchant family renown for their hospitality empire. He's in a race with his cousin to create a culinary masterpiece and secure his birthright. Myself, I was thinking a low INT Dragonborn who just wants to eat a dragon, because he thinks it'll make him one.
@csmaine5326
@csmaine5326 Ай бұрын
Best dnd content creator strikes again. Bless you pointyhat
@AegixDrakan
@AegixDrakan Ай бұрын
Okay, "was forced to pass away" is one heck of a euphemism. XD Your mythology joke was also phenomenal, well done. :P
@jameswils100
@jameswils100 Ай бұрын
There's no way you just said "Giantists" at 22:20 and thought you were gonna get away with it
@Kurotekken
@Kurotekken 29 күн бұрын
I came into the comments to say this was the best part of the video
@davialmeida4442
@davialmeida4442 Ай бұрын
I can tell the HEAVY inspiration from Hilda with the whole "giants become mountains"
@Thorin-eg2yv
@Thorin-eg2yv Ай бұрын
I thought it was just a drawing on mythology thing, I know loads of stories where people have said that mountains were actually giants & thats why you can sometimes see “faces” in them
@MrCheese270
@MrCheese270 Ай бұрын
Who is Hilda?
@prometheus9732
@prometheus9732 Ай бұрын
@@MrCheese270 Hilda is a show on netflix that utilizes this idea. OP is not is not referring to a person.
@davialmeida4442
@davialmeida4442 Ай бұрын
@@MrCheese270 Do you not know Hilda!? She was a Norse mythological figure that created the northern mountain range after imprisoning the last giant under the ground. This was their explanation as to why the mountains would seemingly change at will, actually caused by snow and landslides. Surprised you didn’t know
@MrCheese270
@MrCheese270 Ай бұрын
@@davialmeida4442 I don’t study or know anything about Norse mythology, but that’s pretty interesting. I find Greek and Roman mythology interesting, so maybe I’ll look into the Norse.
@eddvultures40
@eddvultures40 Ай бұрын
This is lovely because in mexico we have mountain call the sleeping lady.
@trikepilot101
@trikepilot101 28 күн бұрын
There is a Sleeping Giant Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada and I think I was shown another "Sleeping Giant" somewhere on the east coast as a child.
@Bucket_with_a_hat
@Bucket_with_a_hat 28 күн бұрын
It can also apply to Don Goyo
@UlfFormynder
@UlfFormynder Ай бұрын
Of all the tips and twists we've seen from this channel in the past two years, this is the coolest one yet. I love the idea of there being a giant taking a nap in the middle of the moon.
@andrewdowns3673
@andrewdowns3673 Ай бұрын
This also works with the new lore provided from the Bigsby' book on Giants, specifically the Scion forms (I think that's what its called; the forms giants take that makes them part of the natural environments).
@possumwithaswitchblade
@possumwithaswitchblade Ай бұрын
As a lifelong mythology nerd, I appreciate the shoutout to Nobody. Also, the reference to giantists. It is important to recognize the contributions of those who practice the giantific method.
@jalalslade9909
@jalalslade9909 Ай бұрын
I miss the OG “hellooo” intros, petition to request considering adding those again. This is my fav YT channel ever, it’s been a surreal experience watching your channel grow so well and so quickly! 👏🏾
@bizarrestars
@bizarrestars 29 күн бұрын
"giantist" is so beautiful and perfect and you just slip it in there and move right on. Incredible
@ThomasWilson-yc7ht
@ThomasWilson-yc7ht Ай бұрын
THIS! This is what was missing from one of my own homebrew races! I have a race of rock people with several subraces. THIS is the endgame I was missing for the species!! Thank you for this. It's fantastic!
@Giosuke_Giogashikata
@Giosuke_Giogashikata Ай бұрын
First note: I have a firbolg player in the campaign I’m running. His name is Kai, and we love him. He recently threw a manhole cover across the country we’re parading around, unintentionally shattering the kneecaps of the bartender from the tavern we met at. Second: I say “certified Pointyhat free” when talking about free things now. Thank you, Pointyhat.
@ChristnThms
@ChristnThms Ай бұрын
OK, I've enjoyed many of your imaginings of the d&d lore. But this is next level. Adding this to the established giant lore is the PERFECT jump from worldly adventures to epic stuff BIIIIG THANK YOU
@ericward8459
@ericward8459 29 күн бұрын
I'm just picturing an entire continent in ruins as multiple living mountains woke up and are waging continual war against each other. All while there are whole tribes of survivors living on these giants as they live and walk and fight because building anything on the ground simply isn't safe enough in the long term anymore.
@Liethen
@Liethen Ай бұрын
I appreciate you using a measurement system I can actually intuit.
@atelalafford4794
@atelalafford4794 Ай бұрын
omg i love the thought of this, i was always enamored with the idea of mountains just being sleeping giants when i was little, making them literal planets in due time with potential to make their own eco systems is such a beautiful thought in the long run
@glacialgrizzly8487
@glacialgrizzly8487 Ай бұрын
So stoked you finally did a video on Giants! Been waiting for this for ages and I gotta say I love this twist! If I can add something I think that maybe another reason Giants aren't super popular in D&D is because they're kinda boring to run and fight. For the most part they're just escalating sacks of HP with a melee attack and a ranged attack. I think they might be more popular if they were more interesting to run and to fight. Here are a couple ways I do it in my games 1. Give them an AOE stomp attack kinda like the Earth Tremor Spell 2. Let them throw your players similar to how the Kraken throws things or like the Stone Giant Variant in the back of Storm King's Thunder 3. Have their attacks not just deal big damage but also be able to Push your players back or knock them Prone 4. Make their attacks AOE instead of single target. Either have the Giant make a single attack roll against all creatures in that AOE or have all creatures in that AOE make a Dexterity Save to avoid getting squashed 5. When a Giant falls Prone or Dies it falls in a direction of the DM's choosing. Each creature in a 15 foot AOE in the direction the Giant falls must make a Dexterity Save or take Bludgeoning damage and become Prone and Restrained 6. You could also add elemental damage and effects to their attacks. For example instead of throwing rocks a Hill Giant might throw a handful of mud turning the area around the target into difficult terrain, a Frost Giant might throw a ball of ice that shatters on impact dealing Cold damage in an AOE kinda like the Ice Knife spell, a Fire Giant could throw handfuls of molten lava that deal Fire damage and harden on impact Restraining the target, a Cloud Giant could call forth gusts of wind to Push players back and deal Force damage, and a Storm Giant could call down lightning dealing Lightning damage and causing targets to become Stunned 7. Giants might even have other elemental traits such as a Fire or Frost Giants having an AOE centered on themselves that deals Fire or Cold damage to any creature in the AOE at the start of each of their turns, a Hill Giant might be able to Burrow under the ground or have a Tremor Sense or Regenerate while in contact with the ground, a Stone Giant may have Resistance to Piercing and Slashing damage due to its stone-like skin, a Cloud Giant could summon fog or turn into a mist, a Storm Giant may even be able to see into the future predicting any attacks your players might make
@garful
@garful Ай бұрын
I've always liked the idea of Firbolgs being more cow-like now lorewise because they experienced exposure to the Feywild and it changed them over the centuries
@MrSomethingred
@MrSomethingred Ай бұрын
I was instinctively preparing for a World Anvil sponsor on that ending
@BelIa42
@BelIa42 Ай бұрын
That is sooo cool. Honestly, I had no idea where the thought of "take their thing of being big and make it bigger" was going to go but I love. Such an inspiring and create twist. I never cared for giants before (as you said basically just big people) but this is awesome. Thank you so much!
@zorber101
@zorber101 29 күн бұрын
5:05 It was Garyx, the Dragon deity of Chaos, Destruction and Renewal who led this war, according to the Dragonomicon. Pretty cool god, almost entirely forgotten nowadays.
@AndrewWebbGames
@AndrewWebbGames Ай бұрын
You're so good at what you do. Somehow, you manage to come up with wildly unique but also simple and actionable ideas that always sparks my imagination. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us, Mr. Hat!
@The.Homebrewer
@The.Homebrewer Ай бұрын
This is SICK! Having entire MOUNTAINS being a sleeping giants sound so EMBLEMATIC! Imagine the fight against a literal mountain! A Gigantic monster so big, the players have to climb its body and fight while ont him God of war Cronos style. And this turns them into forces of nature's more than monsters when they are old enough. Imagine trying to wake up a sleeping giant juste to destroy the city built on it. Or trying to save your town from the doom of an angry fire collosi, Who's volcano is burning everything around it. That's sick!
@lechevalier-ns2pt
@lechevalier-ns2pt Ай бұрын
For stats, you can use those of the scions of the giant gods in bigby’s book. The idea that they really are standard giants that have grown past their standard lifespans is great. Maybe their lives were made endless by their mastery of rune magic.
@gavinboyer4634
@gavinboyer4634 Ай бұрын
2:06 Zeus is quaking in his boots!
@Orengelable
@Orengelable Ай бұрын
I loved it!! It made me think of a analogy of the war between giants and dragons like the duality of space/time. Giants representing space, like the giants god's body being the universe, and giants being geological formations, and dragons being a representation of time and processes and change.
@robotchef769
@robotchef769 Ай бұрын
Giant fan here- I’m currently playing a SKT (storm kings thunder) campaign and my character is a Goliath rune knight who has the blood of hartkiller and is trying to unite all giants including giant kin to restart the “Great War” to make annam proud and come back
@yolkcheeks
@yolkcheeks Ай бұрын
saw this was uploaded a few minutes ago and caught myself whispering 'oh boy oh boy' aloud while settling in for another pointy hat banger.
@nettlesandsnakes9138
@nettlesandsnakes9138 Ай бұрын
20:00 hydrogen, they’re made of hydrogen.
@pedrostormrage
@pedrostormrage 26 күн бұрын
22:46 "Every planet is alive, and has a will of its own" When the Gaia hypothesis becomes a fact 🌎
@clutchedbyanangel
@clutchedbyanangel Ай бұрын
What I got from this is that there's potentially a Dwarf-and-Elf-style ancient enmity between Firbolg/Goliaths and Dragonborn/Draconic Sorcerers.
@mikeyallen6758
@mikeyallen6758 Ай бұрын
Severely underrated pun in "Giantist"
@MWhaleK
@MWhaleK 29 күн бұрын
Really like your idea for giants! It reminds me both of Discworld Trolls and a place called Sleeping Giant State park nearish to where I live, according to a legend of the Native Quinnipiac people a stone ridge that looks a bit like a man sleeping on his back is the Giant Hobbomock who was put to sleep by magic.
@gavinmcgraw
@gavinmcgraw Ай бұрын
13:55 If anyone still doubts that Matt Colville has been waaay into D&D for a looong time, here's the art from when he first appeared in the Fiend Folio...
@erinkarp
@erinkarp Ай бұрын
So this is essentially "what if giants turned into Genius Loci" and tbh I am so here for it
@troybaxter
@troybaxter Ай бұрын
Or, they could be counters to the Genius Loci. Maybe there is an unknown ongoing war between them. That could explain Natural Disasters stuff like Earthquakes, Mud Slides, Volcanic Eruptions, etc.
@jemm113
@jemm113 Ай бұрын
@@troybaxter or the Loci are actually a parasitic species that preys on giants! Perhaps there is a smaller parasite that is actually a young-stage loci that infect giants when young and develop as they do! Or what if the MOON is a Genius Loci that ate the colosi planet’s lunar child! And that’s why it’s hurtling towards the planet since it wants to parasitize the planet too!
@Doveknight-n8t
@Doveknight-n8t Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed Ireland. Your description is accurate!!! 🇮🇪
@HitDieProductions
@HitDieProductions Ай бұрын
So cool to see the project we've been working on for so long in a Pointy Hat video! It's been in production for a while now so it's wild to be where we are now. Big thanks to the Pointy Hat team for working with us! Oh, and hope you're all enjoying the free subclass! :)
@m-yday
@m-yday Ай бұрын
Never had I actually been inspired to an entire world before. The story you hypothesised was so stunning I actually feel like I could run a game now. I’ve never felt inspired enough to run a world. But knowing this high-level story is enough to inspire so much out of any world that takes influence from it!
@loganswalk8621
@loganswalk8621 Ай бұрын
I’ve got some mileage from doing Hill Giants similar to Titans from A.o.T just the visceral horror of a giant monster sometimes even a dozen of them just ripping through a village and eating people like grapes with some of them playing with their food. Also on the Xenoblade Chronicles point I’ve actually done something similar but closer to Metru Nui from Bionicle where the continent is shaped like a humanoid laying on their back.
@TheRogueCommand
@TheRogueCommand Ай бұрын
8:23 I was unreasonably happy to see Hilda the Series get some attention!!
@SebastienGendron-uk4po
@SebastienGendron-uk4po Ай бұрын
He briefly mentioned ''killing giants so that humans can use their carcass as a landmass to live on ''. I was reminded of the Titan from the Owl House show.
@theshamonk668
@theshamonk668 Ай бұрын
8:33 I see Hilda and my brain gets happy
@Lebgefaehrlich
@Lebgefaehrlich Ай бұрын
imagen a Collossus waking up hearing the call of the void and jumping into space. Together with the party and the magical city they are in. Its now a Spelljammer Campain
@hammotimee
@hammotimee Ай бұрын
Im running storm kings thunder rn, this is so helpful ❤
@JakubWojciechowski933
@JakubWojciechowski933 26 күн бұрын
Imagine two colosal giants decide to have a baby, but since the baby is too small for them not to squish it by accident, they leave it to some random adventurers and promise to come back in a few years. That could be an entire campaign of its own!
@apeanders
@apeanders Ай бұрын
16:44 you're also a one eyed giant of the youtube dnd community yourself, aren't you now?
@calvinpape5756
@calvinpape5756 Ай бұрын
Awesome! I love Greek mythology and Pointy Hat.
@LordOfPais
@LordOfPais 21 күн бұрын
"What if giants were planets?" Oh, so like Titans from The Owl House.
@tedbourchert5986
@tedbourchert5986 Ай бұрын
I think they were trying to make Firbolgs into the D&D version of the Ogier from the Wheel of Time books. I am speaking specifically of the books because I refuse to acknowledge the complete abomination Amazon called a show.
@Ellie-jx8jt
@Ellie-jx8jt Ай бұрын
I love this! It makes me think of the norse creation myth, Where the realms are made out of the dead body of the giant Ymir.
@dmdeign7116
@dmdeign7116 Ай бұрын
"Divine Jerry Springer" sounds amazing
@Augustmsb
@Augustmsb Ай бұрын
Love the Collosi's parallel with norse mythology where Odin and his brothers formed the world out of Ymirs remains
@Mr.Comedian42069
@Mr.Comedian42069 Ай бұрын
The only problem I have with these videos is that there isn’t enough of them. I’ve already rewatched the entirety of Which Lich six times, and it’s almost getting old
@Drnajs
@Drnajs Ай бұрын
These videos are one of the few things that actually brings me a genuine smile nowadays. I love every single one.
@nima2542
@nima2542 Ай бұрын
Pointy hat right before my dnd session >>>
@trollsmyth
@trollsmyth 29 күн бұрын
This is very, very awesome. :D And you gave me a way to include flying mountains without it feeling silly to me. (Yes, I'm weird.) Added note: I didn't see the links to the other videos you mentioned at the end of this video in the video, like we normally do.
@PoppedBorn
@PoppedBorn Ай бұрын
GUYS WAKE UP, THE POINTY HAT MAN POSTED!!!
@GadolElohai
@GadolElohai Ай бұрын
This is extremely cool. I started the video wondering what you could possibly do to make them interesting, and boy did you deliver.
@kylanshireman2875
@kylanshireman2875 29 күн бұрын
Love it. I have a huge affinity for “the moon is secretly something else” plots. They are always stupid but I love them to death.
@JulianLopez-rt6kp
@JulianLopez-rt6kp Ай бұрын
Wow, you really outdid yourself with this idea, Antonio. It's incredible and full of potential.
@keirtheashby2
@keirtheashby2 29 күн бұрын
Wow. Can "Fun fact" be a part of every info dump now? That made me so happy every time :)
@rekcroom
@rekcroom Ай бұрын
You have given me an avenue to make Xenoblade Chronicles (One of my favorite franchises ever) in DnD, and for that? I thank you.
@ivello
@ivello 28 күн бұрын
This is honestly fantastic and i would put this on the same level as your twist on Liches and on Dragons, great stuff!!!
@BHil-pm5xm
@BHil-pm5xm Ай бұрын
What's doubly fascinating is Hidetaka Miyazaki went a similar route in Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but where stone and mass were synonymous with dragons! (The smithing stones are their scales.) Dark souls 2 featured giants, but more as avatars of primordial trees, so they were enemies of Fire and rivals to mankind.
@dhavaram8064
@dhavaram8064 Ай бұрын
This is amazing! Your content is always so creative, inspiring, and most importantly, usable! One of rhese days you should consider compiling all of these awesome ideas into a physical book. I'd back that as a crowdfunder from the first second!
@AndyUpchurch
@AndyUpchurch 29 күн бұрын
Okay, I enjoy all Point Hat vids, but this is the first one that immediately solves a problem I was having in my homebrew. The twist of giants becoming mountains is exactly what I needed, when I needed it. Copy/pasting now.
@arlay3513
@arlay3513 Ай бұрын
I literally tomorrow will propose a mini arc with giants to our DM (wanted to do it for a while now), and this video is exactly in time, holy moly! This idea with neverending growth is intriguing, will bring that up too and share the result here if anything of note happens
@wrongeden3420
@wrongeden3420 Ай бұрын
I like the idea that the colossal could change the nature of the world they sleep on. Like a sleeping storm colossal has a violent storm eternally hovering over it, or a forest of "torch trees" ever burning on top of a fire colossal. They could become a domain of magical landscapes with the laws of physics bending around it. This could extend to spell jammer creating totaly alien planets from the dreams of the colossals.
@TabAtkinsJr
@TabAtkinsJr Ай бұрын
"giantists" ANTONIO YOU'RE CANCELLED
@rRecoveryProd
@rRecoveryProd 13 күн бұрын
17:39 Giants are just guys Best segment you've made so far!
@PaxtonReeve
@PaxtonReeve Ай бұрын
Nice video, can definitely see the possible inspiration from the Cradle of the Scions. You definitely inspired me to make the giants in my campaign a lot more than just big guys.
@joshuaalexander143
@joshuaalexander143 29 күн бұрын
I'm starting a new campaign tonight with my DnD group. I've planned to create a Goliath warlock. You have just given me the best idea as to why they have taken the Old One Pact! LOL!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
@369destroyer
@369destroyer Ай бұрын
Imagine a Starjammer campaign where a moon sized Collosus wakes up.
@cannoneermike
@cannoneermike Ай бұрын
I want to give props to your editor, they are hilarious
@billyeyelash3604
@billyeyelash3604 Ай бұрын
The kaiju fight idea at 23:16 reminds me of a Warframe area on deimos called the cambion drift where two enourmous wyrms battle with one regenerating every twenty minutes and killing the other, representing effectively a day and night cycle. Awesome video, Mr Pointy!
@HyperactiveHarpy
@HyperactiveHarpy Ай бұрын
You’ve solved a key problem I was having with an Anchorome campaign I’m writing. Thank you, dang I love these videos!!
@Chaosmancer7
@Chaosmancer7 Ай бұрын
This is it. I've spent literal years trying to make Giants "fit" in my campaign worlds. I've played with them being fey or being elementals or a dozen other things. But this is it. And I think this solves the issue I had with dragons and gold and could even work with Goliaths and Firbolg connecting to giants while I break off trolls, ogres and ettins... I think this solved SO many problems I was having!
@C.D.G.1
@C.D.G.1 Ай бұрын
As a Sons of Behemat player thanks for talking about giants.
@penguwave4025
@penguwave4025 Ай бұрын
The lore you used for Giants is what I have for dragons in my campaign setting. Dragon's just keep growing until eventually they become continents and so on, and from within them, that is where new dragons are born.
@metaadinfinitum
@metaadinfinitum 26 күн бұрын
Hey, big fan, but as a mythology nerd [especially Irish myth] I wanted to ramble a bit about the Firbolg! Firbolg are pronounced like "fear-bel-eg" [and it's plural, the singular is Fearbolg, pronounced like "far-bel-eg"]-- it's also very much up in the air whether they're normal humans. Myths often painted them as related to the pretty monstrous sounding Fomorians, but Irish poets and storytellers often loved embellishing details without too much worry about consistency. I think most stories have them first coming to Ireland after their "internship" in Greece, waaaaay back in ancient times-- predating the arrival of not only the Irish but also the fairies who inhabited the island before them. Overtime, they mixed with the Irish population and are said to be the origin of the Irish [or specifically Connacht] reputation for being quarrelsome and short tempered, at least according to Lady Grey.
@theodor3gabriel
@theodor3gabriel Ай бұрын
I think you really outdone yourself this time Antonio. I'm honestly thinking about including this on my own ongoing campaign's lore.
@SirPogsalotCreates
@SirPogsalotCreates Ай бұрын
now I'm imagining two planets in a binary orbit system just constantly trying to attack one another but never quite being able to reach
@sennaka
@sennaka Ай бұрын
Or a myth people have about the two moons circling being lovers that were cursed to be forever apart but always in sight of each other....and the party discovering that uh, that's *kind* of true, but not because of a curse....!
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