Giant

A giant is a humanoid-shaped creature, usually of great strength and size. All giants have low-light vision. As a group, they have no other special abilities or immunities.

Dwarves as a race are experienced at fighting giants, so they are more adept in combat with them.

True Giants
There are six types of classic "true giant" races:
 * Cloud Giant : A giant race that believes itself superior to all other giants (save for storm giants).
 * Fire giant : A militaristic giant that looks somewhat like a huge dwarf.
 * Frost giant : A giant who lives in areas frozen year-round and participates in raids.
 * Hill giant : A selfish giant inhabiting hilly regions.
 * Stone giant : A shy giant that is nevertheless dangerous when aroused to anger.
 * Storm giant : A gentle giant that lives mainly on cloud islands.

Further Giant Species
These are otehr giant subraces found throughout Faerûn. When turned to life as incarnate constructs, large-sized or larger artificial humanoids, such as golems, are also defined as giants.


 * Craa'Ghoran Giant : Rare stone giant offshoots created when earth elemental energy warped and twisted their ancestors. They can glide and walk right through stone like earth elementals and raise walls of stone from the ground with their supernatural powers. They resemble tanned, bestial and deformed versions of stone giants.
 * Desert giant
 * Death giant
 * Eldritch giant : Powerful scions of arcane lore, these ancient giants spend their years seeking out fragments of knowledge. Though selfish and cruel, they are smart enought to bargain fairly when they must and perceptive enough to know that open conflict distracts them from their studies. They hate storm giants, though they are too involved with their pursuit of magical power to bother fighting other creatures. Eldritch giants resemble burly but serious and wise-looking storm giants. They have purple skin, covered with tattoos and runes. Unlike most giants, they are quite good and capable of casting spells and other magic.
 * Fog giant
 * Forest giant : An elven giant that is amongst the tallest species of giant.
 * Jungle giant
 * Mountain giant : A brute that is amongst the largest species of giant, and loves to squash people under boulders.
 * Ocean giant : A merfolk-like giant that can assume a more humanoid form to walk on land.
 * Reef giant
 * Sand giant
 * Sun giant : A grim, nomadic desert-dwelling giant that survives by raising livestock.

Notable Giantkin

 * Cyclops
 * Ettin
 * Firbolg
 * Fomorian
 * Ogre
 * Troll