And if the player dwarf character get away, give the player his own HD/CR:Xp award. Got a new dice game to play, it is for seven players. Two teams of three hill giants each who will play the dwarf. There will be a lot of running and dodge skill Ref checks.
Being a dwarf mage in an area with a hill giant king close by who knows of you is probably the worst feeling of fear especially when you don't know many spells to protect yourself
Meanwhile in the production room from 5e: *Reads lore* Hm, this is like really complicated and can fill multiple pages, but it's late. Let's just make it another creature just driven purely by hunger and not add any more lore to it. Worked fine for the other dozens of monsters we reduced to that simple trait.
It makes sense. The main appeal of D&D is the gameplay, not the lore. The lore, and I mean the deep dive stuff not the short description stuff, is really only important to a minority of GMs and almost no players. They've got lore books for that purpose.
@@jaeg.3806 I'd agree with you, if it weren't for the WotC repeatedly showing that they are terrible at worldbuilding and don't actually write the new lore with your ideals of making it accessible to the people. They pick a very shallow interpretation of a creature, piece of lore or event, and cut off any nuance-creating events to make it terrible. The giants are one of the best examples of this, because in Volo's giants it's as if they intentionally tried to cram every possible amateur mistake of worldbuilding into one chapter. You've seen MrRhexx's video on the actual giant history? I'd invite you to actually read what 5e says about the giants, and you'll see that they chopped this history up in the worst possible form. Storm giants are literally just sitting around waiting their entire lives as their fathers wasted their entire lives, looking for signs of their kingdom returning because they lost the war against the dragons and Annam now gives them the silent treatment. No ice necklace, no runt king, just the worst possible way of 'And then nothing happened for 1000 years' that some fantasy writers use. But it might be okay, right? Like you said, 5e tries to make the lore shorter because none but a few DMs care. Well, no. I would agree, if the same 5e lore that bastardises the real lore, wouldn't also repeat themselves to fill space so often. If the lore would have to be fit into a few paragraphs as we saw with the dragons, then sure. But for Volo's the writers were told to reduce the creature to about 3 or 4 bullet points, and then had to fill in 10 pages with those. With the length of the chapter they used in Volo's, they could've writen the real history proper and in one organised chronological chapter for the people to read, rather than having to piece it together from older editions. But instead the amount of pages they've now spend are used on repeating the same Terrible Writing Advice tier of bad worldbuilding that they dedicate to their creatures now. And it's not the best for us either. If you'd care about the players and proper ways to implement your creatures, you make the lore about how to involve them in an adventure, or something like that. Not like how the stone giants have some lore on what they do and how their society looks like, but with literally no plot hook for the adventurers to find them beyond stumbling upon them. And the cloud giants, for all text on their ancient history's purpose and tech, don't have a single sentence on how you may actually encounter one in your adventures other than breaking down their home's doors as a bunch of murderhobos hearing about a house of treasure. No, the lore isn't good just because it's no longer a lot to read. The opposite in fact, both in terms of worldbuilding and practical use for players and DMs. It's not been simplified, it's been bastardised.
@@CombatSportsNerd No. No I am not. Just look at how many creatures have been reduced to 'mindless and driven only by hunger' same as the hill giant, because that's easier. Or the horrible 'retcons' of some lore like how the drow came to be. 5e is a great edition mechanically, but lorewise you should ignore it. It's clear that the 5e crew isn't the kind of worldbuilders that Gyrax and the other original creators were. They're just people who were hired and put in charge because they knew how to fanboy like D&D with GoT or knew how to do job interviews well. Only to practically be like D&D writing the latest seasons of GoT.
Well I know if I ever play a wizard genius in D&D one of my ultimate goals would be to kidnap a male hill giant baby and then through magical means increase his intelligence to at least the level of an average human and then put him back without any of his tribe finding out he was ever taken in the first place. Then just sit back and watch as the experiment unfolds and yet I can imagine an extremely funny character arc where my wizard over time would grow quite fond of his little experiment and eventually even look at him as a kind of adopted son which in turn would eventually cause my character to step in on his behalf once catching wind of a foul plot being cooked up by the tribe's coven of hill giant females who plan to kill my precious boy as they deem him to be a threat to their rule.. Noooo way you're not hurting my big handsome boy and you're most certainly not gonna get in the way of his bright future as king of all hill giants!!..
My favorite I've ever done is having a hill giant who thinks he is a wizard because his adoptive father who killed his mother when he was a baby gave him an enhanced rock of returning when he was a kid and joked that it was his magic missile
@@benadams5557 Awe that's so cute but man it sucks hill giants are so vicious that most of the time you have no other choice then to fight them. However I'm glad you saved the little guy cause I think Hill Giants are one of the evil races who definitely if raised in a loving environment could be at the very least chaotic neutral or maybe and that's a big maybe true neutral. However I doubt they could ever be lawful good cause at the end of the day hill giants will be hill giants LOLXD!!.. Honestly I'd just be happy with my adoptive hill giant not eating sentient beings 😂
It would be interesting to hear the dwarves side of the story. It wouldn't be surprising that it was the giants who took advantage of the dwarves, grew fat and then began to eat them.
Wow. I literally got a character and backstory from this. A Hill Dwarf ranger who's name in common means Giant slayer. A folk hero among his people he pledged that so long as he drew breath they would not fear becoming the delicacy of a hill giant. His comrade whose name means green guardian rides into battle atop her noble green dragon steed.
When it comes to monsters that looked like large humanoids with no social behaviors and intellect nor eve n great beauties to nature, this is a thing of an abomination which I hate the most.
Interesting legend of the Hill Giants origin. The dwarves being at fault for turning the first Hill Giants from big kind hearted people into the savages they are now with how they got treated. I wonder if this happened before or after the fall of the Giant Kingdoms, I feel that after because I like to think the kind Hill Giants served a better purpose to the other bigger Giants as more than savage fighters.
I think this a loss clan of dwarves because most of the dwarves from the forgotten realms are greedy but they put in hard work think like Scrooge McDuck
Also I would think that it would be interesting if the dwarves tell this tale to they kids as a warning to not get to lazy or you will be eaten by a hill giant.
At least they had a good reason. Now, these privileged college kids on the other hand...well, let's just say that when they look up in jealous envy of those richer than themselves, they forget the poorer ones who look at them in disgust how they don't appreciate what they have...
@@TarsonTalon So why dont the poor just eat the fucking rich? You point out a legitimate problem but the issue here is that rather than poor focusing on the fact that the top 10 percent own over half of the wealth of this fucking country, with one percent owning the vast majority of that, everyone fights each other and doesnt focus on the people that are keeping them poor. And guess what? that aint the college kids.
Teddy, stop. The ones saying that are college kids with over prized gadgets who just want free stuff for nothing. Meanwhile they look down on blue collar workers, and even call them “the rich” once they have more than average.
this is very interesting and helpful, in my current game there is a thieves guild run by a hill giant that had a circlet of intelligence stuck to there scalp ( part of a PCs backstory ) so now this'll give me a great starting point to flesh out that guy
Hill giants: little green dragons are delicious. Me: (remembering my party got a green dragon egg and raised her as family) ALL HILL GAINTS MUST DIE! Edited: Spelling.
iv'e ended up playing a caster druid in my D&D group and these videos are more than perfect for my character, to have the druid randomly spout some wisdom on he mannerisms of specific monsters on first encounter really has added that old wise druid persona to my character.
I have only just discovered your channel, and I love what you do. Taking a race, and explaining not only their origin and attributes, but culture and interactions in the world. I look forward to your future videos, and looking at your uploads, over the past 2-5 years. I know I have a lot of entertaining trivia and playthroughs to look forward to. I imagine you plan on finishing giantkin, and I read someone else suggesting goblinkin (a few months of material there). Personally I have always been more fascinated by the shapeshifters of D&D. I loved your video on the mimics, and I hope you one day will brush past changelings and "regular" shifters. You bring out a forgotten depth to the world, that was lost over time. It inspire and enrichen stories yet untold. I know I will always bring a bottle of strong alcohol if I visit a dungeon. Maybe I can trade it for a magic item.
probably will do it eventually, but if you want one that cover it now ruclips.net/video/lh_WBI9ICrs/видео.html Aj Pickett does a retty good reading of them, but will still watch Rhexx when and if he makes a video about them.
They must be pretty smart if they can make alcohol.... I do not know of any cows, let alone most people that know how to make booze from scratch. Just saying!
Alcohol can be made by accident. Even apes can get drunk by eating fruit from the ground that's starting to spoil. That's how our ancestors thousands of years ago discovered alcohol. The next step was just to crush the fruit, add some water and it's ready within a few weeks.
My brain said to itself as you mentioned “the females make the shoes” my brain yelled “COBBLED, THEY COBBLED THE SHOES” if they sewn the clothing then they cobbled the shoes right? Let me know if that’s even right.
This, in combination with the increasing popularity of subverting racial stereotypes in dnd, just gave me a fantastic idea for a Hill Giant and goblinoid community that has the thriving society across a series of villages along the base of a mountain range where the hills meet the peaks. The party can be hired by a dwarvish clan who wants them to "eradicate the monstrous beasts". But the "monsters" are going to be prosperous miners, farmers and shepards, and the dwarves jealous of all the riches that the community is finding in the mountains but not letting the dwarves in to dwarf.
I like that they consider dwarven flesh a delicacy, also the game where a dwarf plays the role of a ball sounds fun. But eating green dragon hatchlings? Not cool, definitely NOT cool :((
I find it a bit contradictory at times that they are both supper jacker and ripped with a lot of muscle mass but also fat and wide and stout. Which one is it? Or are they like sumo-fighters, having a lot of muscle under all the fat? Great video really but that one point annoys me slightly :/
A hill giant settlement where for one reason or another* a female ends up being the largest, even if not the tallest. She is already much smarter than the males that were in power before, and she already has some girls chosen and a powerful coven. Instead of just being the leader from the shadows, this female giant goes front and center. If the females start leading raids I could see them being a force to be reckoned with. *(continued attacks on males from nearby humans, leaving some females to eat more?)
If you're a dwarf mage, you can either be killed ritually, or used as sportsball being thrown around until you hit a rock headfirst. I don't know about you, but I'd be casting the most obvious spells I could muster.
Unless you heard that the local giants slow cook spellcasters in high flames. " put them into the fire, pull them out. Back and forth. Burn them with hot sticks." I would rather be a two leg running foot ball.
Question, what about Grolentor? From what I know, the Hill Giants patron deity was a huge evil prick who most often then not fought with most of his brother gods and often lost. How does he connect to the Dwarf King story?
Touch Kill is kinda more like a game called British Bulldog. Basically, one guy stands in the middle of a field, and a bunch of people try to run from one side to the other. I think the first person that the guy in the middle catches is the new guy in the middle.
Wow. A series on giants, after the series on dragons, right before my SKT/OotA campaign. Thank you Rhexx for reading my mind. Next one just needs to be the Abyss/Nine Hells one =P
Interesting question: If status among hill giants is so closely predicated on physical size/bulk, does that mean that a female giant’s status among her fellow females would increase proportionately over the course of a pregnancy? The further along in gestation, the bigger her belly grows, after all. If so, what would this mean for the political dynamics of female “covens”? Who’s in control among hill giant women may shift radically depending on who’s expecting, particularly if pregnancy among giants - as with large-bodied mammals in real life - takes multiple years, allowing time for a mother-to-be to greatly advance her personal agenda over those of her political rivals. Would ambitious she-giants strive extra-hard to get pregnant, or seek out quack remedies and shamans’ blessings to increase their own fertility? Might a big female who’s carrying twins (or triplets!) grow large enough to gain temporary authority even over males? What happens to a female's authority after she's given birth: would she immediately be demoted, or would her infant be counted toward her "bulk" until such time as it can walk rather than be carried in her arms? Lots of story opportunities, there.
Hm... There were more abundant descriptors in the various supplementary volumes of 2nd/3rd edition I think. One thing I think you missed is that they like to toss boulders/stones in battle and will therefore usually carry a 'marble bag' to have a few on hand. In terms of meals, they are credulous enough to accept a captive tiny person's plea to cook delicious (if drugged/poisoned) soup rather than be eaten. And from what I recall, they sleep all together in the main building of their steading during winter at least.
This is actually really interesting and really helpful because I am starting a campaign where one of the characters that'll be joining the players party is going to be a hill Giant one that is particularly stupid but kind-hearted not nearly as big or as strong as any of the other Giants definitely weak by the average standard of a hill giant but he'll still be just strong enough that combined with the intelligence of the players and other NPCs that they'll have on their team he'll be a valuable member (Also especially now that I know that Giants and dwarves have beef with each other it's going to be a pretty interesting story plot point whenever my hell giant NPC meets either of the two dwarven NPCs that I have one of which is called Thorne a slightly taller than usual dwarf that long ago was unintentionally pushed from dwarven society and became a dwarf in pirate before settling down somewhere and having his life pulled apart when he was cursed with the physical form of a regular honey badger and pseudo immortality which is only helped along with a special necklace that makes him immune to all non-magical attacks below a certain threshold because of my world if an attack is strong enough it automatically counts as a magic attack is that it will produce magical energy but it takes a whole lot of power before it does that) However due to the hell Giant having also been unintentionally pushed out of his own society as well as a few other things that happened in his life there will be enough common ground between four and this unnamed Hill Giant that eventually no form one of the most unlikely friendships It's not the only character plot point that there's going to be in the campaign so I'm not sure how much of the campaign will be devoted to this they'll be a big enough portion that will leave a small impact in the series at the very least
1:12 I am frustrated with this as well, that people often have a static image of the monster. I fell in this trap in the beginning of playing this game until I see all kinds of crazy art. I also blame playing online where you are fighting multiple of a monster so the same token is used and it makes it feel very video-gamey. I don’t blame the dm, I do this too out of convenience, but I also try to give them each unique features too. On that note I am also peeved when no variation on equipment is given either. Had a dm who never put loot on enemies other than quest material or the weapons from their actions; like all goblins had a scimitar and a short bow, none of them have random junk befitting of gobbos. Are you planning on making videos for other giants?
If people went a bit more retro (in a good way) and gamed more physically (i.e. tabletops and with MODELS) they'd SEE the differing variety in the opponents they're used to. Not that every model gets it right of course, and some throw the wind in so the wrong direction that, if really good (and a fair number are) you can use them, not for they were originally meant, but as something else entirely.
Wow, there were a lot more to Hill Giants then I thought, thanks for making this. One error I would point out though is that "cave men" were never simian, that just never was a thing.
Drop kick a hafling, they go farther than a dwarf does. Been in a few AD&D games where one player group had a hill giant with then. The hill giant throws a hafling up to the top of a forty foot castle wall to drop a rope down. If you want to wreak a group of adventures give hill giants average int and mighty bows +5 str dmg, and have them use spears and huge slings. Honestly the vikings did kill off half of Scotland and a third of Irland before they were stop in England. So how long ago do you think giants were kill off ?
So I've been going to aj picket for years and will continue to do. But you actually cover stuff he doesnt sometimes so I'm very thankful for your unique videos
Ooh I wonder if there as been any D&D campaigns where a female character stumbles into an opportunity to teach a coven of hill giant puppet masters some knowledge.
Human: I have one question. Dwarf: Yes Lad? Human: Is it true that your kind turned the hill giants into savages thousands of years ago? Dwarf: ...WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THIS IN MORADIN'S TEMPLE! *picks up hammer and starts running towards him* YAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! Human: Oh crap *starts running*.
I think you forgot about a game hill giants played called stuff stuff(I think). Where hill giants would stuff there faces with so many smaller races commonly dwarfs or halflings as they could. Kind of like chubby bunny but with short people. The one who could have the most people in its mouth would win
I'm rather curious where you get your information. When I ran a campaign for 4e I had to draw on a lot of stuff from 3 and 3.5 because the information wasn't there. If the information isn't found in the guides where do you get it? (got lots of mine from magazines)
Most times i get my information from sourcebooks or articles dedicated to the topic; for giants for example there is an entire book called Giantcraft. It was released for Dungeons and Dragons i believe during 2nd edition. I dragon magazine articles are also very informative.
About 2 years ago two of my friends had a incredibly violent argument about anything in this video being true. Because one of my friends played as a lawful good and as a race known for never caring about money. He then went on to immediately skin a dwarf to sell to hill giants. My other friend says this is not even real knowlodge from any book. But i know better than to side with ethier of them. But even thought they are not friends to this day they would love closure on wether this is true. And i mean the book this is from. I just ask for the sources
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I love this guy so much. He pronounces EXACTLY one word wrong EVERY video. It's adorable.
sewn
oh thank god, I thought i was going crazy
I'm that guy who points it out, despite several others having done so already. I can't help myself I may need an intervention. 😮
"Smashing the ball's skull against the goalstone scores a goal" I lost it there XD
And if the player dwarf character get away, give the player his own HD/CR:Xp award.
Got a new dice game to play, it is for seven players. Two teams of three hill giants each who will play the dwarf. There will be a lot of running and dodge skill Ref checks.
Hill giants attacking the village!
Women still most affected.
*effective
interesting that Hill Giants only avoid poisonous foods, but love the eggs of Green Dragons. The dragons that specialize in poisons.
Quite the irony isn't it?
Probably the only poison(s) they can break down come from green dragons. It still is ironic tho lol
Being a dwarf mage in an area with a hill giant king close by who knows of you is probably the worst feeling of fear especially when you don't know many spells to protect yourself
Meanwhile in the production room from 5e:
*Reads lore*
Hm, this is like really complicated and can fill multiple pages, but it's late. Let's just make it another creature just driven purely by hunger and not add any more lore to it. Worked fine for the other dozens of monsters we reduced to that simple trait.
Amen Brother
Amen
It makes sense. The main appeal of D&D is the gameplay, not the lore. The lore, and I mean the deep dive stuff not the short description stuff, is really only important to a minority of GMs and almost no players. They've got lore books for that purpose.
@@jaeg.3806 I'd agree with you, if it weren't for the WotC repeatedly showing that they are terrible at worldbuilding and don't actually write the new lore with your ideals of making it accessible to the people. They pick a very shallow interpretation of a creature, piece of lore or event, and cut off any nuance-creating events to make it terrible.
The giants are one of the best examples of this, because in Volo's giants it's as if they intentionally tried to cram every possible amateur mistake of worldbuilding into one chapter.
You've seen MrRhexx's video on the actual giant history? I'd invite you to actually read what 5e says about the giants, and you'll see that they chopped this history up in the worst possible form. Storm giants are literally just sitting around waiting their entire lives as their fathers wasted their entire lives, looking for signs of their kingdom returning because they lost the war against the dragons and Annam now gives them the silent treatment. No ice necklace, no runt king, just the worst possible way of 'And then nothing happened for 1000 years' that some fantasy writers use.
But it might be okay, right? Like you said, 5e tries to make the lore shorter because none but a few DMs care. Well, no. I would agree, if the same 5e lore that bastardises the real lore, wouldn't also repeat themselves to fill space so often.
If the lore would have to be fit into a few paragraphs as we saw with the dragons, then sure. But for Volo's the writers were told to reduce the creature to about 3 or 4 bullet points, and then had to fill in 10 pages with those.
With the length of the chapter they used in Volo's, they could've writen the real history proper and in one organised chronological chapter for the people to read, rather than having to piece it together from older editions. But instead the amount of pages they've now spend are used on repeating the same Terrible Writing Advice tier of bad worldbuilding that they dedicate to their creatures now.
And it's not the best for us either. If you'd care about the players and proper ways to implement your creatures, you make the lore about how to involve them in an adventure, or something like that.
Not like how the stone giants have some lore on what they do and how their society looks like, but with literally no plot hook for the adventurers to find them beyond stumbling upon them. And the cloud giants, for all text on their ancient history's purpose and tech, don't have a single sentence on how you may actually encounter one in your adventures other than breaking down their home's doors as a bunch of murderhobos hearing about a house of treasure.
No, the lore isn't good just because it's no longer a lot to read. The opposite in fact, both in terms of worldbuilding and practical use for players and DMs. It's not been simplified, it's been bastardised.
@@haenen100 you're not very happy with what's happened with the lore are you?
@@CombatSportsNerd No. No I am not. Just look at how many creatures have been reduced to 'mindless and driven only by hunger' same as the hill giant, because that's easier. Or the horrible 'retcons' of some lore like how the drow came to be.
5e is a great edition mechanically, but lorewise you should ignore it. It's clear that the 5e crew isn't the kind of worldbuilders that Gyrax and the other original creators were. They're just people who were hired and put in charge because they knew how to fanboy like D&D with GoT or knew how to do job interviews well. Only to practically be like D&D writing the latest seasons of GoT.
Enslaving someone that's 10 times your size, what could go wrong?
Well kiryu went on a rampage lmao
Enslaving things that are the smaller or the same size doesn’t work out either ask the mindflayers about that
@@theomnissiah-9120 Wait what happens with them?
@@CombatSportsNerd Ever Time they have enslaved smart races they have a slave rebellion
you forgot the "then getting so fat you literally cant move"
Well I know if I ever play a wizard genius in D&D one of my ultimate goals would be to kidnap a male hill giant baby and then through magical means increase his intelligence to at least the level of an average human and then put him back without any of his tribe finding out he was ever taken in the first place. Then just sit back and watch as the experiment unfolds and yet I can imagine an extremely funny character arc where my wizard over time would grow quite fond of his little experiment and eventually even look at him as a kind of adopted son which in turn would eventually cause my character to step in on his behalf once catching wind of a foul plot being cooked up by the tribe's coven of hill giant females who plan to kill my precious boy as they deem him to be a threat to their rule.. Noooo way you're not hurting my big handsome boy and you're most certainly not gonna get in the way of his bright future as king of all hill giants!!..
I love it high level play is pretty free form depending on dm
My favorite I've ever done is having a hill giant who thinks he is a wizard because his adoptive father who killed his mother when he was a baby gave him an enhanced rock of returning when he was a kid and joked that it was his magic missile
@@benadams5557 Awe that's so cute but man it sucks hill giants are so vicious that most of the time you have no other choice then to fight them. However I'm glad you saved the little guy cause I think Hill Giants are one of the evil races who definitely if raised in a loving environment could be at the very least chaotic neutral or maybe and that's a big maybe true neutral. However I doubt they could ever be lawful good cause at the end of the day hill giants will be hill giants LOLXD!!.. Honestly I'd just be happy with my adoptive hill giant not eating sentient beings 😂
It would be interesting to hear the dwarves side of the story. It wouldn't be surprising that it was the giants who took advantage of the dwarves, grew fat and then began to eat them.
Wow. I literally got a character and backstory from this. A Hill Dwarf ranger who's name in common means Giant slayer. A folk hero among his people he pledged that so long as he drew breath they would not fear becoming the delicacy of a hill giant. His comrade whose name means green guardian rides into battle atop her noble green dragon steed.
I hope you go on to explain more about both the Frost and Fire Giants in later episodes!
...and then finish with Storm Giants and Titans. Wanted to pick Cloud Giants but those were covered I believe
When it comes to monsters that looked like large humanoids with no social behaviors and intellect nor eve n great beauties to nature, this is a thing of an abomination which I hate the most.
I found the dwarf.
Osmium
Or… a green dragon
*Tarrasque would like to know your location*
@@WildDragonSong Who cares?
@@kevinobill4818 Doesn't Tarrasque, an immortal creature capable of killing Gods, count as an abomination?
I've been "patiently" waiting for this upload. These are the most informative and best put together videos about DnD Lore on RUclips.
Interesting legend of the Hill Giants origin. The dwarves being at fault for turning the first Hill Giants from big kind hearted people into the savages they are now with how they got treated. I wonder if this happened before or after the fall of the Giant Kingdoms, I feel that after because I like to think the kind Hill Giants served a better purpose to the other bigger Giants as more than savage fighters.
I think this a loss clan of dwarves because most of the dwarves from the forgotten realms are greedy but they put in hard work think like Scrooge McDuck
Also I would think that it would be interesting if the dwarves tell this tale to they kids as a warning to not get to lazy or you will be eaten by a hill giant.
You're assuming the story is true. This is not necessarily so. Communities spin all sorts of tales to justify behavior they would engage in anyway.
I just kinda thought the hill giants probably served as the dumb peasant farmers or something
They took "eat the Rich" quite litteraly,
At least they had a good reason. Now, these privileged college kids on the other hand...well, let's just say that when they look up in jealous envy of those richer than themselves, they forget the poorer ones who look at them in disgust how they don't appreciate what they have...
@@TarsonTalon So why dont the poor just eat the fucking rich? You point out a legitimate problem but the issue here is that rather than poor focusing on the fact that the top 10 percent own over half of the wealth of this fucking country, with one percent owning the vast majority of that, everyone fights each other and doesnt focus on the people that are keeping them poor. And guess what? that aint the college kids.
Remember don't eat the rich, human flesh has very little nutritional value, instead compost the rich.
@@an8strengthkobold360 "Compost the rich" I love that lol
Teddy, stop. The ones saying that are college kids with over prized gadgets who just want free stuff for nothing. Meanwhile they look down on blue collar workers, and even call them “the rich” once they have more than average.
Love that picture of Gotrek that snuck in once you started talking about dwarves
this is very interesting and helpful, in my current game there is a thieves guild run by a hill giant that had a circlet of intelligence stuck to there scalp ( part of a PCs backstory ) so now this'll give me a great starting point to flesh out that guy
Hill giants: little green dragons are delicious.
Me: (remembering my party got a green dragon egg and raised her as family) ALL HILL GAINTS MUST DIE!
Edited: Spelling.
iv'e ended up playing a caster druid in my D&D group and these videos are more than perfect for my character, to have the druid randomly spout some wisdom on he mannerisms of specific monsters on first encounter really has added that old wise druid persona to my character.
"They're fat! And clumsy!"
It almost sounds like you have a vendetta against them.
F It seams he really love female hill giants...
Could you start putting your sources in the description.
Edit: spelling.
Brooks Faucette Could you start spelling “Description” correctly?
@@gabriellowe9929
So you have a problem with "discription," but not "scources?"
Faustian Luminary Got me there bud.
I have only just discovered your channel, and I love what you do. Taking a race, and explaining not only their origin and attributes, but culture and interactions in the world. I look forward to your future videos, and looking at your uploads, over the past 2-5 years. I know I have a lot of entertaining trivia and playthroughs to look forward to.
I imagine you plan on finishing giantkin, and I read someone else suggesting goblinkin (a few months of material there). Personally I have always been more fascinated by the shapeshifters of D&D. I loved your video on the mimics, and I hope you one day will brush past changelings and "regular" shifters.
You bring out a forgotten depth to the world, that was lost over time. It inspire and enrichen stories yet untold. I know I will always bring a bottle of strong alcohol if I visit a dungeon. Maybe I can trade it for a magic item.
I don’t know if you’ve done these so far, but I couldn’t find anything. Could you do hobgoblin and/or bugbear. Heck goblinkind in general.
probably will do it eventually, but if you want one that cover it now ruclips.net/video/lh_WBI9ICrs/видео.html Aj Pickett does a retty good reading of them, but will still watch Rhexx when and if he makes a video about them.
They must be pretty smart if they can make alcohol....
I do not know of any cows, let alone most people that know how to make booze from scratch.
Just saying!
Elephants do, btw.
Alcohol can be made by accident. Even apes can get drunk by eating fruit from the ground that's starting to spoil. That's how our ancestors thousands of years ago discovered alcohol. The next step was just to crush the fruit, add some water and it's ready within a few weeks.
klaiken989 x to be fair, cows don't have thumbs, nor are they willing to eat fruit that rotten LOL
Stealing... nuff’ said
They just steal the booze from small settlements
Guess I'm on the giants side now . Stunty is on the menu tonight boys !
"we have had nothing but maggoty goblins For THREE STINKIN DAAAYS!"
Always happy to see Warhammer players interested with D&D!
what would the Emperor think about this?
impressive amount of information as always, sir. keep up the great work! and hopefully, i will see you in Warcraft soon ;)
They're 3 times your size! Uh... That picture showed a giant at least 15 times the size of an average human.
*sees hill giant with long-sword for a nose piercing* Uh, we might need some different weapons to kill this thing./
Long bows with mercury paste. Enough of it will poison them, just like hollow point bullets .
Get into her nose, take the sword in the way, hack your way out of her brain
She is from a Pathfinder mod I have her mini she is insane munching on a red dragon leg
So touch kill is tag combined with red light green light
Sounds kind of red redrover to a degree too... also instead of tagging you're hitting them with something deadly lol
also a bit of death
My brain said to itself as you mentioned “the females make the shoes” my brain yelled “COBBLED, THEY COBBLED THE SHOES” if they sewn the clothing then they cobbled the shoes right? Let me know if that’s even right.
yeah
I mean, if it's a sandal or a moccasin then they could sew it.
A cobbler repairs shoes a shoemaker makes them
my wizard dwarf: chuckles; *im in danger*
This is my favorite episode of yours so far. Fascinating! PS you're also my favorite DnD youtuber. Keep up the good work!
I like how you make Hill Giants appear like really nice and freindly folk. Almost like hobbits.
Really looking forward to “What They Don’t Tell You About Storm Giants”.
These are fun. Remind me of the old "ecology of.." series from the old Dragon magazine..
40 giants show up down river
Me- *calls Walmart to see if they have any medium artillery in stock*
This, in combination with the increasing popularity of subverting racial stereotypes in dnd, just gave me a fantastic idea for a Hill Giant and goblinoid community that has the thriving society across a series of villages along the base of a mountain range where the hills meet the peaks. The party can be hired by a dwarvish clan who wants them to "eradicate the monstrous beasts". But the "monsters" are going to be prosperous miners, farmers and shepards, and the dwarves jealous of all the riches that the community is finding in the mountains but not letting the dwarves in to dwarf.
But them gem and shadow dragons though?! Ples
I wish we could get a video on the gem dragons, but they're not in 5e yet
@@TotallyanNPC I doubt they will add them with how watered down 5e is 😿
@@HelloisthisErbaDa Let's hope we see a new release of the Draconomicon!
already in 5th Dnd .. so he could do gem dragons too
www.dmsguild.com/product/180402/Gem-Dragons-of-Faerun
@@mythicalsimorgh3307 not official though. When we say isnt on 5e we mean that we dont have official things about them
I like that they consider dwarven flesh a delicacy, also the game where a dwarf plays the role of a ball sounds fun.
But eating green dragon hatchlings? Not cool, definitely NOT cool :((
Emerald Dragons are unrelated to Green Dragons.
I find it a bit contradictory at times that they are both supper jacker and ripped with a lot of muscle mass but also fat and wide and stout. Which one is it? Or are they like sumo-fighters, having a lot of muscle under all the fat?
Great video really but that one point annoys me slightly :/
Did you watch the video?
@@ToBeSchooled Yes, but the point still evades me. Can you please explain or point me to the segment where it's explained?
Are they like shave bears ?
Guerilla ?
@@takafumiarisawa70 I understand, I see how it's supposed to work now.
I'd love to see more Giant Videos, and it was interesting to see how these dumb brutes are still complicated on a society level.
Just finished catching up on you D&D lore, can't wait to see what you do next. Great work and keep up the good videos
I can't get enough of these lore videos :)
I always wanted to know where can you learn about dnd because 5th edition Monster and Volo's aren't much . Previous Books or smthg else ?
Just google it. Youll find plenty of material.
Old editions books
Convince a hill giant that you are actually bigger, just far away.
A hill giant settlement where for one reason or another* a female ends up being the largest, even if not the tallest. She is already much smarter than the males that were in power before, and she already has some girls chosen and a powerful coven. Instead of just being the leader from the shadows, this female giant goes front and center. If the females start leading raids I could see them being a force to be reckoned with.
*(continued attacks on males from nearby humans, leaving some females to eat more?)
"... Hill Giants love Dwarf flesh... "
*Shows Gotek Gurnnissson*
Oh, I detect a serious case of indigestion coming...
Can you do centaurs next? I’m playing one in my next campaign and I wanna know the lore
Pikasayan well in greek mythos they’re super rapey
Half furrys.
asdfg2560 basically emobiments of barbarism
What about magic dwarfs? Do they still eat them or kill them another way?
If you're a dwarf mage, you can either be killed ritually, or used as sportsball being thrown around until you hit a rock headfirst. I don't know about you, but I'd be casting the most obvious spells I could muster.
Unless you heard that the local giants slow cook spellcasters in high flames. " put them into the fire, pull them out. Back and forth. Burn them with hot sticks." I would rather be a two leg running foot ball.
Just wanted to quickly say that i really ****ing love your stuff and to thank you for making this awesome content.
I liked in the 3.5 monster manual where all the monsters came with flavour text.
Your channel is a blessing, man
Thanks for all your work!
Question, what about Grolentor?
From what I know, the Hill Giants patron deity was a huge evil prick who most often then not fought with most of his brother gods and often lost. How does he connect to the Dwarf King story?
Touch Kill is kinda more like a game called British Bulldog. Basically, one guy stands in the middle of a field, and a bunch of people try to run from one side to the other. I think the first person that the guy in the middle catches is the new guy in the middle.
Loving the videos about giants!
From one of your follows from Brazil
Wow. A series on giants, after the series on dragons, right before my SKT/OotA campaign. Thank you Rhexx for reading my mind. Next one just needs to be the Abyss/Nine Hells one =P
Interesting question: If status among hill giants is so closely predicated on physical size/bulk, does that mean that a female giant’s status among her fellow females would increase proportionately over the course of a pregnancy? The further along in gestation, the bigger her belly grows, after all. If so, what would this mean for the political dynamics of female “covens”? Who’s in control among hill giant women may shift radically depending on who’s expecting, particularly if pregnancy among giants - as with large-bodied mammals in real life - takes multiple years, allowing time for a mother-to-be to greatly advance her personal agenda over those of her political rivals. Would ambitious she-giants strive extra-hard to get pregnant, or seek out quack remedies and shamans’ blessings to increase their own fertility? Might a big female who’s carrying twins (or triplets!) grow large enough to gain temporary authority even over males? What happens to a female's authority after she's given birth: would she immediately be demoted, or would her infant be counted toward her "bulk" until such time as it can walk rather than be carried in her arms? Lots of story opportunities, there.
Me having my dwarf lady interacting and befriending a (half) hill giant and having no idea of 11:26 (Don't know if DM was also aware of his fact).
His world his lore
Hm... There were more abundant descriptors in the various supplementary volumes of 2nd/3rd edition I think. One thing I think you missed is that they like to toss boulders/stones in battle and will therefore usually carry a 'marble bag' to have a few on hand. In terms of meals, they are credulous enough to accept a captive tiny person's plea to cook delicious (if drugged/poisoned) soup rather than be eaten. And from what I recall, they sleep all together in the main building of their steading during winter at least.
This was really good. I never even knew there was so much about them and their culture.
I'm on team "Sewn rhymes with Phone" but I have been wrong about these things in the past.
Really want to play start a intricate hill-giant campaign now. Thanks for a great video.
This is actually really interesting and really helpful because I am starting a campaign where one of the characters that'll be joining the players party is going to be a hill Giant one that is particularly stupid but kind-hearted not nearly as big or as strong as any of the other Giants definitely weak by the average standard of a hill giant but he'll still be just strong enough that combined with the intelligence of the players and other NPCs that they'll have on their team he'll be a valuable member
(Also especially now that I know that Giants and dwarves have beef with each other it's going to be a pretty interesting story plot point whenever my hell giant NPC meets either of the two dwarven NPCs that I have one of which is called Thorne a slightly taller than usual dwarf that long ago was unintentionally pushed from dwarven society and became a dwarf in pirate before settling down somewhere and having his life pulled apart when he was cursed with the physical form of a regular honey badger and pseudo immortality which is only helped along with a special necklace that makes him immune to all non-magical attacks below a certain threshold because of my world if an attack is strong enough it automatically counts as a magic attack is that it will produce magical energy but it takes a whole lot of power before it does that)
However due to the hell Giant having also been unintentionally pushed out of his own society as well as a few other things that happened in his life there will be enough common ground between four and this unnamed Hill Giant that eventually no form one of the most unlikely friendships
It's not the only character plot point that there's going to be in the campaign so I'm not sure how much of the campaign will be devoted to this they'll be a big enough portion that will leave a small impact in the series at the very least
Why did I laugh so much in this video? Especially at the prospect of a dwarf being used as a ball
Can you do fire giants next?
I find them to be the most interesting currently, and im creating a location which involves them.
i am sorry but thinking of giants tossing a dwarf around is freaking funny
I would guess that male Hill Giants help make baby giants as well as eat, drink and goof around.
Very cool might be your best video yet.
1:12 I am frustrated with this as well, that people often have a static image of the monster. I fell in this trap in the beginning of playing this game until I see all kinds of crazy art. I also blame playing online where you are fighting multiple of a monster so the same token is used and it makes it feel very video-gamey. I don’t blame the dm, I do this too out of convenience, but I also try to give them each unique features too. On that note I am also peeved when no variation on equipment is given either. Had a dm who never put loot on enemies other than quest material or the weapons from their actions; like all goblins had a scimitar and a short bow, none of them have random junk befitting of gobbos.
Are you planning on making videos for other giants?
If people went a bit more retro (in a good way) and gamed more physically (i.e. tabletops and with MODELS) they'd SEE the differing variety in the opponents they're used to. Not that every model gets it right of course, and some throw the wind in so the wrong direction that, if really good (and a fair number are) you can use them, not for they were originally meant, but as something else entirely.
I get so excited every time one of your videos comes up!
11:28 Gotrek would change their taste.
Very interesting. Lots of lore is given here that truly opened so many possibilities and ideas for gaming. Excellent work done, I'd say. :)
Hill Giants have always been my favorite of the giant kin. Well them and Ogres
What is it about Hill Giants that makes them a solid monster choice? I feel the same way, but for seemingly no (obvious) reason.
Wow, there were a lot more to Hill Giants then I thought, thanks for making this. One error I would point out though is that "cave men" were never simian, that just never was a thing.
So are you saying we should make encounters where the party are the balls in living rugby?
Drop kick a hafling, they go farther than a dwarf does.
Been in a few AD&D games where one player group had a hill giant with then.
The hill giant throws a hafling up to the top of a forty foot castle wall to drop a rope down.
If you want to wreak a group of adventures give hill giants average int and mighty bows +5 str dmg, and have them use spears and huge slings.
Honestly the vikings did kill off half of Scotland and a third of Irland before they were stop in England. So how long ago do you think giants were kill off ?
Interesting idea for a quest now... A Hill giant king and his queen a Hill giant Shaman, would make for a decent mid level quest I think.
So I've been going to aj picket for years and will continue to do. But you actually cover stuff he doesnt sometimes so I'm very thankful for your unique videos
Me: About to talk to a hill giant so he wont eat my halfling friend.
My friend: Ya cant reason with them their half-wits!
If you get a brass key then you can get into the shed southwest of the Grand Exchange in Varrock to fight hill giants. Wait wrong game 🤔
Hill Giant mother, Dwarf slave father, cannibal Dwarf Hill Giant.
It's Tolkien's fault that hill giants like dwarf so much
Ooh I wonder if there as been any D&D campaigns where a female character stumbles into an opportunity to teach a coven of hill giant puppet masters some knowledge.
I was so happy when Gotrik came up at 11:30 XD
Story about evil dwarves is breathtaking
Big fan of WH so them being fat and lazy sounds like heresy.
Human: I have one question.
Dwarf: Yes Lad?
Human: Is it true that your kind turned the hill giants into savages thousands of years ago?
Dwarf: ...WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THIS IN MORADIN'S TEMPLE! *picks up hammer and starts running towards him* YAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!
Human: Oh crap *starts running*.
Pikmin Master21 Tiefling: and people say we’re bad
Thanks for the one shot campaign ideas of a town trading/ bribing with a pile of hill giants.
Lol the bull rush game reminds of the simpson men gathering
You gotta watch for ninja hill giants in the trees. (yes, that was a thing in a light hearted campaign I ran once)
I think you forgot about a game hill giants played called stuff stuff(I think). Where hill giants would stuff there faces with so many smaller races commonly dwarfs or halflings as they could. Kind of like chubby bunny but with short people. The one who could have the most people in its mouth would win
Do you think you will ever get around to making the elder brain video? The mind flayers section was probably my favorite part of this whole series!
Perfect timing, I am running Steading of the Hill Giant Chief this weekend :)
Hey Rhexx! You should really do one on Phoenixes. There's hardly any lore to them and basically a stat block.
As a 15th level Wizard with Giant Issues. The Hill Giants are among the few giants I actively go out of my way to go and hunt them.
I'm rather curious where you get your information. When I ran a campaign for 4e I had to draw on a lot of stuff from 3 and 3.5 because the information wasn't there. If the information isn't found in the guides where do you get it? (got lots of mine from magazines)
Most times i get my information from sourcebooks or articles dedicated to the topic; for giants for example there is an entire book called Giantcraft. It was released for Dungeons and Dragons i believe during 2nd edition. I dragon magazine articles are also very informative.
@@MrRhexx thanks. I do that also but just not nearly as thorough as you.
So basically if you see a hill giant wearing sewn clothing you know he is married .
Its nice to see feminist wokiness is alive in well in D&D much has changed in this beloved game since the 70's. All praise Gary Gygax.
About 2 years ago two of my friends had a incredibly violent argument about anything in this video being true. Because one of my friends played as a lawful good and as a race known for never caring about money. He then went on to immediately skin a dwarf to sell to hill giants. My other friend says this is not even real knowlodge from any book. But i know better than to side with ethier of them. But even thought they are not friends to this day they would love closure on wether this is true. And i mean the book this is from. I just ask for the sources
was waiting for the lore master , MrRhexx to put something out again
Dude, you're being really unfair to the cow.
What D&D book set was that at around 0:42 ?
It's the alternate cover set for the 2014 core rule books. You may have learned that in the 5 years since you left this comment 😅