The Giants Are Coming!

Exciting!!! I really like the Rune Giant sending the Hill giant mooks to do her dirty work!
The singles are clearly a marsh giant and a stone giant, but I can't figure out what the middle one is.

I think it's a taiga giant... perhaps.

Excited to see how this path turns out. :)

Sounds like a great campaign to be an enchanter in! Come to me, giants, bring me your low will saves! Mwahahaha.

Hmm, a rune giant...
wonder if this will work as a sequel for the kids of my current runelord campaign's heros.

I really hope you create a feat in the upcoming AP to fix a giants horrible aim with rocks. I really miss Brutal Throw. I use it in my home games, but I'd love the Pathfinder treatment to it.

If ever there was a call for an all-small AP cabal, this would surpass them all.

Too bad it's not released in the fall.

-Dink (Poet Laureate of Whistledown)

A Rune Giant plus a ton of Hill Giants? Welp, those fort defenders are pretty much SCREWED! Hope they had life insurance policies.

the mongrel giant and the tomb giant

There goes my hope for more mythological based giants...

These sound like environment giants to me, hopefully i'm wrong though.

Devils, golems and giants are my top three monsters to throw at players. This will be a must have AP for me.

If we get more Orc and Giant minis out of this then I am one happy DM (GM whatever we have to call ourselves anymore). I'm very curious to see how the series builds up a character to be a Giantslayer!

This looks wonderful!

We already earned the Giantslayer achievement in RotR4. So much loot, none of it useful to the players.
I really don't see the fun in this AP.

Assuming that's a pic of giants attacking Trunau, the town looks a bit different/smaller than the pic in Towns of the Inner Sea.

Does anyone else have the Attack on Titan theme playing in their head each time they read anything about this AP?

Does anyone else have the Attack on Titan theme playing in their head each time they read anything about this AP?

It works with everything. Be sure to watch out for NPCs with huge noses. They might be traitors.

I wonder of the tomb giant will be related to the raam that appeared in the Age of Worms adventure path?

We already earned the Giantslayer achievement in RotR4. So much loot, none of it useful to the players.

I really don't see the fun in this AP.

I do believe JJ mentioned on his thread that there will be a mechanism for resizing large items for Medium/small creatures. There was a similar issue in WotR (crusaders can't use all the unholy weapons they loot) and the work around is fairly elegant.

I just want to applaud the adjectivized Gulliver's Travels reference. :)

I really hope you create a feat in the upcoming AP to fix a giants horrible aim with rocks. I really miss Brutal Throw. I use it in my home games, but I'd love the Pathfinder treatment to it.

Pick up Legendary Games' Mythic Monsters - Giants. It's got a great little section on variant rules to beef up PfRPG giants so they aren't quite what your players might be expecting, including a rule for hurling boulders into a given square as attacks vs. AC 5, rather than as regular ranged attacks,which most giants suck at.

Seriously, for a (sub)type of monsters that every player has seen or fought against time and again like good old giants, a bit of Mythic can be the thing that makes you think twice about them just being old and boring. You never have to deal with Mythic PCs unless you want to, but you can always use Mythic rules against your players...

I wonder of the tomb giant will be related to the raam that appeared in the Age of Worms adventure path?

They are not related, but there are a few shared themes. I had completely forgotten about that Greg Vaughan creation, and had to go pull that issue to refresh my memory.

I've got a few monsters coming up in volumes 2, 4, and 6. Needless to say, I'm very excited that very soon I'll get to see them in print. :)

Valantrix1 wrote:

I really hope you create a feat in the upcoming AP to fix a giants horrible aim with rocks. I really miss Brutal Throw. I use it in my home games, but I'd love the Pathfinder treatment to it.

Pick up Legendary Games' Mythic Monsters - Giants. It's got a great little section on variant rules to beef up PfRPG giants so they aren't quite what your players might be expecting, including a rule for hurling boulders into a given square as attacks vs. AC 5, rather than as regular ranged attacks,which most giants suck at.

Seriously, for a (sub)type of monsters that every player has seen or fought against time and again like good old giants, a bit of Mythic can be the thing that makes you think twice about them just being old and boring. You never have to deal with Mythic PCs unless you want to, but you can always use Mythic rules against your players...

Hmm... I have everything that LG has ever produced, but I completely forgot about those little gems. Thanks for the reminder though! *insert evil chuckle here*

increddibelly wrote:

We already earned the Giantslayer achievement in RotR4. So much loot, none of it useful to the players.

I really don't see the fun in this AP.

I do believe JJ mentioned on his thread that there will be a mechanism for resizing large items for Medium/small creatures. There was a similar issue in WotR (crusaders can't use all the unholy weapons they loot) and the work around is fairly elegant.

This trait:

Giant-Blooded:

Your family has always been dogged by rumors that a bit of giant blood got into the family's veins at some point. Whether this was through alchemical or magical experimentation, or because your great-great-grandfather married a giant, it has made you big for your race, and may have given you other minor cosmetic features of giants, such as flaming red hair, a bluish tinge to your skin, or oversized hands. When you wield a weapon that is larger than your size, the penalty on attack rolls for using inappropriately sized weapons is reduced by half. In addition, you gain a +2 trait bonus to your CMD against awesome blow combat maneuvers. If you're a dwarf, your stability racial trait applies to awesome blow combat maneuvers as well.

Or the Massive Weapon feature of the Titan Mauler Barbarian Archetype or the Giant Weapon Wielder of the Titan Fight Archetype

Should also help make the loot less marginalized.

I can't wait to see the stats for the Mongrel and Tomb giants. I am also happy that we will finally get a new Gigas.

So many cool APs; so little time.

I am so getting this. Really looking forward to seeing what minis they base of this too.

Any idea when the player's guide will be released?

I'm hoping with this AP that we see the return of the monkey grip feat or something better or at least a magic pair of gauntlets that resizes weapons when you grip them. But at keast there's he Gorum's magic powder from Inner Sea Gods to help with shrinking items.

Any idea when the player's guide will be released?

SOON!

The art is fantastic, it really gives the giants a monstrous look. I think I'm about as excited about the concept of "big humanoids" as I can be for this AP - though, admittedly, that's not *very* excited. I never quite understood what people find awesome about giants. However, this art really helps me to at least get some grasp on the idea, I think.

Elrawien Lantherion wrote:

Any idea when the player's guide will be released?

SOON!

like this week soon?

That's what I'm aiming for.

I hope this will be a bit like the old giant series, back in the day. Looking foreward to it.

The art is fantastic, it really gives the giants a monstrous look. I think I'm about as excited about the concept of "big humanoids" as I can be for this AP - though, admittedly, that's not *very* excited. I never quite understood what people find awesome about giants. However, this art really helps me to at least get some grasp on the idea, I think.

I think for a few people, the excitement of giants comes from associating them with the amazing feats of mythological beings. The idea that the sky is held aloft by one massive creature, a mighty exhalation of breath being a hurricane wind, drinking an entire ocean, stomping the earth to create an earthquake. Admittedly these are not aspects that always feel represented by giants in Pathfinder and similar systems, but nevertheless that mental association brings excitement to battling and defeating such opponents with regular sized characters. My two cents.

Rune giant! I am officially pumped for this AP. Now, the big question is how many rune giants will be involved overall. A handful, a small family, a clan? Will these be the grand overlords or ate they themselves serving a higher power?

How soon is soon?

this week, thats Adam's plan at least:-)

Rune giant! I am officially pumped for this AP. Now, the big question is how many rune giants will be involved overall. A handful, a small family, a clan? Will these be the grand overlords or ate they themselves serving a higher power?

From the DoEM (Department of Expectation Management)...

I'm pretty sure there are no rune giants in this AP. They're pretty deeply tied into Varisia and Thassilon, and Giantslayer is not set in Varisia and doesn't really have any Thassilon ties whatsoever. We WILL be illustrating at least one rune giant in the AP (as evidenced) but not as an illustration for one of the adventures.

Giantslayer is about something else other than rune giants and Thassilon, and that's on purpose, because we want to tell a different story than what we told in "Rise of the Runelords."

How soon is soon?

When will then be now?

When will then be now?

This is now, now.

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:

When will then be now?

This is now, now.

*Bzzzt!* Incorrect! The proper response is "SOON." :D

How soon is now?

Major_Blackhart wrote:

Rune giant! I am officially pumped for this AP. Now, the big question is how many rune giants will be involved overall. A handful, a small family, a clan? Will these be the grand overlords or ate they themselves serving a higher power?

From the DoEM (Department of Expectation Management)...

I'm pretty sure there are no rune giants in this AP. They're pretty deeply tied into Varisia and Thassilon, and Giantslayer is not set in Varisia and doesn't really have any Thassilon ties whatsoever. We WILL be illustrating at least one rune giant in the AP (as evidenced) but not as an illustration for one of the adventures.

Giantslayer is about something else other than rune giants and Thassilon, and that's on purpose, because we want to tell a different story than what we told in "Rise of the Runelords."

So what's the scoop on Giantslayer, then?

Its about Giants, and those that slay them:-)

Tom Rex wrote:

Major_Blackhart wrote:

Rune giant! I am officially pumped for this AP. Now, the big question is how many rune giants will be involved overall. A handful, a small family, a clan? Will these be the grand overlords or ate they themselves serving a higher power?

From the DoEM (Department of Expectation Management)...

I'm pretty sure there are no rune giants in this AP. They're pretty deeply tied into Varisia and Thassilon, and Giantslayer is not set in Varisia and doesn't really have any Thassilon ties whatsoever. We WILL be illustrating at least one rune giant in the AP (as evidenced) but not as an illustration for one of the adventures.

Giantslayer is about something else other than rune giants and Thassilon, and that's on purpose, because we want to tell a different story than what we told in "Rise of the Runelords."

So what's the scoop on Giantslayer, then?

The scoop is YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT!!!

Buy five copies!

It's Tuesday! I'm getting antsy in my pantsy for that Player's Guide. LOL

There's going to be a Know Direction Podcast tonight 8:30 EST about Giantslayer, and I would be ecstatic to have the Players Guide on me to look over while Watching it!

I hate to disappoint any eager folks, but the Player's Guide isn't going to be released today.

Soon, however. SOON!

(Also, thanks for mentioning the podcast!)

Two days left in the week. ;)

Adam, why do many of the giants pictured in the released art work look like big fat slobs. It seems to me that no art work for giants has an average body style? Not that I am against fat giants the Hill giant mini in the last set is one of my favorites. He looks like an over grown hill billy, like what I have always pictured hill giants looking. The only improvement that I could have though of for that mini would be a large straw hat.

Do Fire giants use giant sized bows and crossbows?

Why are disparate groups of giants working together? Normally the are competitors with one another aren’t they?