Obyrith are actually the oldest. They’re literally from the universe before the Forgotten Realms. Then and the Great Old Ones, who I’m pretty sure are also from that same previous universe.
I had a game where cloud giants flew by and dropped boulders killing 3/4 of the city and party and they just considered it the same as "egging" someone's house.
They DO mention their superior tactics in the MM I Think they mean like large scale logistics and risk evaluation, the know your enemy type things, while fire giants just know optimal stabbing conditions
I think the difference would be Tactician and Generals. While in our societyy both are merged, the first is good a organising a campaign, prepare new strategy for the army and dispatch ressources accordingly while the other is good at comanding the troops on the batlefield, reading ennemy movements and strategies, keeping men in control and seize opportunity.
Also among giant kin are the Goliaths. They're mini giants that exist so people can have giants as player characters. Also, they have natural full body tribal tattoos.
"If you go far enough north in any world, you're either Saxton Hale or you're dead." Sounds accurate, someone's gotta get those Yetis in Yeti Park after all.
Honestly, for lore, I prefer to watch mrrhexx, who I have no idea if anyone watches but I like his voice and he goes really in depth on the lore of DnD.
Giants are really old. They have treasure hoards! 25 sessions later and *lots* of dead giants. Welp, I guess they're going to need to make some less-old giants soon or they're going to be forgotten as well as broke.
Only problem: Probably no wizards or artificers, less combat manuvers for fighters, less oral history for bards, fewer playable artificers, less centuries of culture for monks. No rougues becuase no major human cities Really society has no time to develop and thus cannot exist The Only class to really benefit whould be maybe druids
@@defensivekobra3873 rogues can be anyone sneaky, are you telling me people don't use scouts and assassins during war? The apparent missing centuries of monk monasteries doesn't matter since monks aren't even that reliant on them flavour wise and you can just say ancient ones exist. Why would Fighters have less maneuvers?
Just imagine that picture of a hill giant is wearing a bikini. If you did... Congratulations you will now need mind bleach to scrub that picture out of your head.
Does anybody find it strange that the cloud giant picture gives the giant vampire fangs? That’s bugged me ever sense I first saw it in the monster manual.
@@FerokNuva yeah, when I blew it up on my computer and increased the resolution it makes it look like lip rings. The bottoms look like they curl under the lip and the tops come out at an angle that doesn't really make sense for teeth (expecially vampiric fangs)
Bluecho4 I researched a bit and I think you’re right. It seems like a weird distinction though, even then. I also figured out they might be lip rings, and I can maybe see that if you look at them just right, but they just protrude so much.
8:13 Damn now i have a scene in my head of a proud dwarfen smith showing off his master piece in his dying breath only to see a giant starting to explode in booming laughter and just one up this dying dude xD
Leafseason Magbag Or you could follow the semi-trend in Roman mythology: “Before the founding of Rome...” This is how time was generally given as their system of timekeeping did not allow for dating anything that happened before 753 BC.
The "Giant Soul" sorcerer is what initially clued me into giants... They are fascinating...and having a character with a distant lineage to them offers interesting character traits....this video has given me numerous ideas! I "wish" the djinn races had such a subclass...
@@coyraig8332 the moral choice for final boss fight was left up to them. Fight the toddler giant or fight the lich grandpa while siding with the other choice. They liked lich grandpa
Jodamanify very much depends on which dragon and which giant. Also, there are a lot more giants than there are dragons. You won’t be finding a cave filled with a mini society of dragons anytime soon, but you could find a few dozen stone or fire giants.
"they're like absol, as seeing one always means good luck" Y'know if you see an absol that generally means your entire town is about to be destroyed by an earthquake or something
If you don't have correctly sized tokens, a soda can works perfectly. And the looks on your players faces will be wonderful as it looms over their characters.
i remember the one time i used giants, i had two cloud giants fighting over a bag of beans (yes it was jack's), one of the giant lord had stolen it from the other and there skirmishes between the two factions threatened to destroy a city, since the bodies of slayed giants would fall from the sky.
"Big daddy vietnam is comming home" that line cracks me up every time. that and the one thing he said with the Copper dragon Which if its fine i would totally use that for one of my games. Fricken Sean connery durgan ^_^
Man, you're one of my new favorite D&D TH-camrs. I'm really loving the 'Basically' series. Looking forward to much more in the future and keep up the good work!
My husband and I want to play Dungeons and dragons but we have no friends really (cause we are 37 and 36 and everyone we know has kids while we are still working to make them after 4 year lol) and we have never played before cause... well... I wasn't even cool enough for the nerds to want let me play with them when I was in school... and well my husband kinda just I dont know didn't 😂🤣😂 but we very much appreciate and enjoy your videos lol so thank you for posting them dude! And keep up the good works!
Check some local hobby shops. Some places run game nights and are really open to teaching new players. Of course there are some that are tight groups but I know some people are super open.
@@Ingothrial wow really! Totally gonna have to check them out! Didn't think of that for whatever reason lol seems pretty obvious now that I think about it lol thank you so much! You are wonderful!
One of the things I've wanted to do was to create Humanoid settlement that is literally just the dwelling of a Giant that once lived their. (What may have been a simple manor for a Giant would be an entire city for humans.) I just need to find a was to represent that architecture.
Fun additional scary facts about giants. Storm giants: whenever they are nearing the end of their life and don't wanna die, they go full druid and become an immortal living storm, surround whatever place they do this shit in for the rest of time until they are slain. How do you kill a literal living storm? No idea. Hill giants: oh yea if one of them gets so sick that they keep throwing up, they actually lock the giant away and starve them until he gets better. This leads to most the time rampage as remember food is a hill giants religion literally. Frost giants: Ever wonder what some storm giants do to bulk up and become chieftain? Well one forbidden and taboo way is to go abandon Thyrm as your lord and savior, worship troll god, go out and slay a troll, then consume its carcass to gain its regenerative powers. The fucked thing here is that they may develop vestigial body parts such as extra heads, a tail, arms, legs, nipples, etc etc due to frost giants biology not suppose to be like a troll. When they are finally figure out they are thrown out the clan because weakness reasons and they just wander around fucking up everything in pure rage. Stone giants: my favorite fucking thing about stone giants is canonically they are overpowered as fuck. You know how they call the world outside their cave "Land of dreams" and shit? Well stone giants are lucid dreamers. Translation: they literally start to bend reality, the laws of nature, gravity, etc etc if they spend long enough outside their underground cave home. To them the world is literally a dream, meaning to them that they can do whatever they want so normally its common to see a chaotic fuck off stone giant turning a boat into a war ship and chucking that bitch at an adventuring group for the lolz.
Stuff stuff seems like something Stefon on SNL would talk about. “It’s when you take a bunch of midgets-” *covers mouth to keep from laughing* “and see how many you can fit in your mouth without swallowing them”
I’ve only played a couple sessions of dnd but I’ve been watching your vids for like a year bc of how much I enjoy listening to you explain such an interesting lore in such a comedic way.
1:18 And yet all of these coexist in spell-jammer. It’s ambitious, but in my campaign setting I’m attempting to reconcile all of these histories and lores.
My first campaign was also my DMs first time playing D&D on either side of the board and he deadass made my Dwarf Barbarian and a Blind Monk fist fight a frost giant.
Thank you for uploading! I'm planning a campaign based on a Fomorian being born without the fey curse, and reforming the giant kingdom of old, and this will help greatly!
Imagine being some elf arcane fighter, then the fire giant scores a crit and yells DORIYAH. Then you're an Orc Barbarian who just joined a group of adventurers after their elf got obliterated by a giant
When he covered rock throwing, am I the only one who pictured the beast titan from Attack on Titan in that scene where he crushes a boulder and baseball pitches a shotgun blast of pebbles?
Wait. So when giants ruled there were just them and dragons. But there was noone else around that they could compare their size to other then dragons. So, is a giant even a giant when all they have besides them are dragons?
Harshnag the Grim is a pretty interesting frost giant NPC; and can provide great insight into giant culture (if you’re running a Forgotten Realms campaign). He was basically a social outcast among frost giants…he had empathy for the intelligent “small folk”; which went against his clans beliefs that the weak don’t matter; and only the strong should rule. This led Harshnag to venture south on his own, where he became a folk hero of sorts…initially frightening to the people; Harshnag became a savior when he went out of his way to fight other monsters in order to protect the “little people”. Harshnag then became a member of the Gray Hands; basically a superhero of Waterdeep. Now he treats the city as his home; and it’s people as his new family. When I use him, he speaks highly of Storm Giants (“strong like the frost giants; but with enviable wisdom”), warily of Cloud Giants (“I can never tell what those lot are thinking”), and a bitter rivalry with Fire Giants (ruthless bastards that remind me ‘o my kin…‘cept they have better weapons”). Harshnag thinks Stone Giants are weird (“Too much time underground”), and sort of pities the Hill Giants (“they drew the short end ‘o the Ordning…if even one ‘o them had their wits about ‘em…they could be great”). He also (in my campaign) has an awkward fondness for the royal princess of the Storm Giants, Serissa; as they both enjoy the small folk. (my table joked that the two of them are just “nerds” who treat the small races like a hobby; and that people are just like “minis” to them…got very meta).
Holy shit! The royalty free music you used starting from 0:50 nearly gave me a heart attack, I thought one of my hentai games was open on another computer.
Just saw this pop back in my feed. A while ago I watched this video and it inspire a concept for a 5e campaign. It's been going on since, and it's one of my proudest works in terms of story telling, world building, and overall fun at the table. So ya, thanks :)
Ok. I am so happy that i rewatched this video, i have had Morose idiots stuck in my head for two weeks and i had no idea where i heard it. Thank you Runesmith
Love how I came back to this video, purposefully and undoubtably read the title, but then immediately watched the sponsorship and expected the video to be over. Concluding, "Yes, that's definitely the video I was looking at this is fine, very entertaining Mr. Smith of Runes you've made another banger once again- nevermind it was 3 years ago- wait what-"
my add to the cloud giants, they are basically "Clout Giants"
That’s fucking hilarious
Do you climb up beanstalks very often?
What am I saying, of course you don't.
Sassasssssssssasssssssss u
Sassasssssssssassssssssss u
The universe came together to allow you to make this joke
Oh, yea, "Jackson and the weird plant that grew maybe just a little too big", my favorite
Retcon whatever makes you feel safe. Aboleth will always remember. Aboleth are always the beginning.
I'd like, but you already have 43. You have diesel speed record.
And Mind Flayers the end.
And dragons remember longer
Obyrith are actually the oldest. They’re literally from the universe before the Forgotten Realms. Then and the Great Old Ones, who I’m pretty sure are also from that same previous universe.
@@NathanTAK And the beginning
imagine a campaign where giants like to steal entire houses just for prank
That's the most stupid thing I heard this month
...that's basically Cloud giants
...so every campain with giant has that. Except for those without houses
I had a game where cloud giants flew by and dropped boulders killing 3/4 of the city and party and they just considered it the same as "egging" someone's house.
Mauricio Schug I’m going to do that
Sounds like a hill giant tbh
Man imagine being a dragon worrying about this new Giant threat then a tree starts yelling in Giant
dragons when the flying boulder starts yelling giant
I dunno why, this made me fucking laugh like a maniac
Fortunate sons intensifies
You do realize the Giants were the losers in the last one right that’s why they’re so salty and all hate dragons
@@charlottewalnut3118 they didn't lose, they just didn't win. And since the dragons didn't win, it's a draw
The history of famorians in 3 sentences
Fey “you’re ugly on the inside”
Fomorians “so are you though”
Fey “but now you’re ugly on the outside”
Got em
Fomorians: Hey, that ain’t fair.
Fey: Well, neither is your face. Heyo!
"They are the blacksmiths and generals" "To win wars you need generals... Which they are not"
lol, basically
hmmmmmmmmmm
They DO mention their superior tactics in the MM
I Think they mean like large scale logistics and risk evaluation, the know your enemy type things, while fire giants just know optimal stabbing conditions
I think the difference would be Tactician and Generals. While in our societyy both are merged, the first is good a organising a campaign, prepare new strategy for the army and dispatch ressources accordingly while the other is good at comanding the troops on the batlefield, reading ennemy movements and strategies, keeping men in control and seize opportunity.
@@shorebreakers96 i tried to say the exact same thing but you explained it WAY better and used the correct terminology, so Good job
Also among giant kin are the Goliaths. They're mini giants that exist so people can have giants as player characters. Also, they have natural full body tribal tattoos.
"If you go far enough north in any world, you're either Saxton Hale or you're dead."
Sounds accurate, someone's gotta get those Yetis in Yeti Park after all.
I love how instead of comparing Stronmaus to Zeus you call him "Storm Jesus".
7:26
Ah yes I remembered Ganondorf the Fire Giant as well as his thirst for small elven punani and their triangles of power.
Fun fact: "Ordning" is Swedish for order. As in, not chaos.
The more you know! ツ
Same for the other nordic languages
Ordnung in German. Yeah surprise they're all cognate :)
Fun fact: ツ romanized is tsu. :)
@@GoneZombie same proto language.
Known as old germanic.
If you ever visit Denmark you can read abiit half of stuff there.
Ordning och reda :)
Good shit as always. Probably the best simplified D&D lore channel out there right now.
Jaden M. I guess you can say this video was pretty MAUT....eh?
Honestly, for lore, I prefer to watch mrrhexx, who I have no idea if anyone watches but I like his voice and he goes really in depth on the lore of DnD.
MrRhex is also excellent. You need to check his channel out if you like this one. All of the "what they don't tell you about xyz" videos are great.
@@peepock7796 Yes I love this guy, but I watch Runesmith when I need to laugh
@@pixelcat5725
Same reason I’m here. Mrrhexx is enjoyable but I’ll be damned if runesmith isn’t funny.
"If you go north in any world, you're either Saxton Hale, or your dead."
XD GOD. That like got me rollin'.
SAXTON HALE!!!!!!!
Oh mate, thats Australium right there.
My dead what?
"Hi, I'm thirty feet tall, and my dad's vietnam!"
- some random giant
Y-You mean Vietnamese?
*No*
*fortunate sun intensifies*
Giants are really old. They have treasure hoards!
25 sessions later and *lots* of dead giants.
Welp, I guess they're going to need to make some less-old giants soon or they're going to be forgotten as well as broke.
Wtf is your party
@@defensivekobra3873 *Cyric, Midnight, and Kelemvor*
If your party is doing that your DMing it wrong.
@@kosm999 you cannot dm wrong tho..
@@defensivekobra3873 Someone needs to Google "Craig the DM"
>forget aboleth are old
>giants and dragons are the oldest
you mean the creatures that came from before the primordials?
2:21 "Do you get to the Cloud District very often?"
i laughed harder than i should have. thanks anon
“Fire giants are the blacksmiths and generals of giant kind”
-5 seconds later-
*Great soldiers: aren’t generals*
I came here to say this
I guess they have generals the same way Orcs have generals. They're generals because they're better at fighting, not because they're smart 🙃
I KNOW RIGHT
There's a reason their empire crumbled.
Hey, we’ve got PLENTY of politicians that aren’t particularly good politicians.
Holy shit, I never knew how badly I wanted to run a campaign set during the war between the giants and the dragons
go for it
That’d be maat
Only problem:
Probably no wizards or artificers, less combat manuvers for fighters, less oral history for bards, fewer playable artificers, less centuries of culture for monks.
No rougues becuase no major human cities
Really society has no time to develop and thus cannot exist
The Only class to really benefit whould be maybe druids
@@defensivekobra3873 rogues can be anyone sneaky, are you telling me people don't use scouts and assassins during war?
The apparent missing centuries of monk monasteries doesn't matter since monks aren't even that reliant on them flavour wise and you can just say ancient ones exist.
Why would Fighters have less maneuvers?
Storm kings thunder would be good for that
"As i try to make ripple effect happen"
Are you going to start breathing exercise?
Golly gee. Is that a Jayjay's wacky quest allusion?
no first they have to meet a mugger and then a guy with a really cool hat
“It’s like if Australia was covered in snow”
PLEASE NO! IT’S ALREADY COLD ENOUGH!
KOALAS ARE DYING TO FIRE.
*COLD,* YOU SAY?
@Alexander Evans I know, right?
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
Yeah, cold. It’ll need to be a lot hotter to rid the world of those blighters, mate.
Feed me with your D&D entertainment.
Hi ASpec
I'm slightly disappointed we didn't get a picture of a thicc giantess
Its just metrona from sds
Same. I was hoping for Canyon from adventure time
@@Runesmith hold up here buckaroo....
"Oh thank god! We were almost crushed, by her giant Va..."
"DUDE! What does your internet history look like?"
Just imagine that picture of a hill giant is wearing a bikini.
If you did... Congratulations you will now need mind bleach to scrub that picture out of your head.
Firbolg- "am i a joke to you?"
Yes
Actually yes.
Jack Walls and goliaths
So is Hartkiller, I will always remember you even Jesusier giant Jesus
Fuck giant kin, stupid bastards
Does anybody find it strange that the cloud giant picture gives the giant vampire fangs? That’s bugged me ever sense I first saw it in the monster manual.
I thought the same thing at first but I think they might actually be large lip rings due to the clout giants love of jewelry and all that
@@FerokNuva yeah, when I blew it up on my computer and increased the resolution it makes it look like lip rings. The bottoms look like they curl under the lip and the tops come out at an angle that doesn't really make sense for teeth (expecially vampiric fangs)
Pretty sure they ARE fangs, and that this is apparently a holdover from earlier editions. Don't quote me on this.
@@Bluecho4 the first 3 editions cloud giants teeth do match the angle of the ones in that picture. Those are some odd teeth 😅
Bluecho4 I researched a bit and I think you’re right. It seems like a weird distinction though, even then. I also figured out they might be lip rings, and I can maybe see that if you look at them just right, but they just protrude so much.
8:13
Damn now i have a scene in my head of a proud dwarfen smith showing off his master piece in his dying breath only to see a giant starting to explode in booming laughter and just one up this dying dude xD
All stories featuring ancient mythology should start with "In the Relative Beginning..."
Leafseason Magbag Or you could follow the semi-trend in Roman mythology: “Before the founding of Rome...” This is how time was generally given as their system of timekeeping did not allow for dating anything that happened before 753 BC.
@@evannibbe9375
That, or “it is known...” Lol.
I can now imagine a frost giant and saxton hale fighting and in the distance you hear the occasional SAXTON HAAAALLLLEE
"You're either Saxton Hale, or you're dead."
Love it.
I'm surprised there wasn't a single reference to the Skyrim Space Program
The "Giant Soul" sorcerer is what initially clued me into giants...
They are fascinating...and having a character with a distant lineage to them offers interesting character traits....this video has given me numerous ideas!
I "wish" the djinn races had such a subclass...
Giants, Being quite the tall boy I sympathize with them, though I'm totally just a smart orc.
Etinns are adorable
Legend says there is a storm giant living in the original club penguin
Runesmith: Mentions Saxton Hale
My brain: *PROPERTY DAMAGE*
SAXTON HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALE!
"big Daddy Vietnam is coming home"
Nice
I can't stop replaying the "Their big ass footsteps with the Fes and the FiFoFums meant that they owned the place"
Runesmith claims he only ever left the house 6 days ago for coffee
That explains his insane upload rate... God save his soul
I appreciate the variation from small fellas to large lads.
Final boss was a storm giant.
I made him a literal toddler throwing a giant sized tantrum.
Did you give him a rattle?
@@coyraig8332 thunder maul
@@AmigoRoberto so basically yes
@@coyraig8332 the moral choice for final boss fight was left up to them. Fight the toddler giant or fight the lich grandpa while siding with the other choice. They liked lich grandpa
@@AmigoRoberto you are an evil dm
I'm starting a political campaign against wizards of the coast.
"MAKE GIANTS SCARY AGAIN!!!"
dude....when have giants not been scary?
I think you mean active?
If you look at the stat blocks, they aren't that hard to fight. If you were to 1v1 a giant vs a dragon, dragons come out on top 7/10 times.
@@Jodamanify Dragons can not run an economy the giants also have hands and wizards.
Jodamanify very much depends on which dragon and which giant. Also, there are a lot more giants than there are dragons. You won’t be finding a cave filled with a mini society of dragons anytime soon, but you could find a few dozen stone or fire giants.
"they're like absol, as seeing one always means good luck"
Y'know if you see an absol that generally means your entire town is about to be destroyed by an earthquake or something
In fairness if you see an absol before the disaster it's an omen of, you still have time to escape or warn others. That's pretty good luck to me.
If you don't have correctly sized tokens, a soda can works perfectly. And the looks on your players faces will be wonderful as it looms over their characters.
Dude giants are my favorite so glad you made this. Great Npc interactions, a giant king was a fan favorite in my public games.
"And that's Basically Giants"
You're welcome
“Raiding a bestbuy during a blackout.”
2020:😬😬
i remember the one time i used giants, i had two cloud giants fighting over a bag of beans (yes it was jack's), one of the giant lord had stolen it from the other and there skirmishes between the two factions threatened to destroy a city, since the bodies of slayed giants would fall from the sky.
Thumbnail looks like "BASKALLY GIANTS"
Great video as always.
"Nothing cool or interesting is happening recently."
Me in 2020 and 2021: *laughs nervously*
Your humor is so awesome. I can see the constant improvement each new video. You seem to be more yourself.
Logan describing Hill Giants was so unexpectedly beautiful
I thought this was going to be a review of jack and the beanstalk
One of my fav d&d moments was when me and my party met an entire town of giants on a mountain top, super fun!
"Big daddy vietnam is comming home"
that line cracks me up every time. that and the one thing he said with the Copper dragon Which if its fine i would totally use that for one of my games. Fricken Sean connery durgan ^_^
9:51
Dude I LOVE the dnd quick guide. Your art is just as good as any pizzcatzo as far as I’m concerned. Love yourself.
"Dnd lacks a true sense of scale" truuuuuue
Man, you're one of my new favorite D&D TH-camrs. I'm really loving the 'Basically' series. Looking forward to much more in the future and keep up the good work!
They had barely any lore in the books so I thank you immensely for sharing with us the actual lore... well approximate lore... according to them.
the storm giants go where no one will ever go, like in a deep trench, a high mountain, mysapce or bing... oof, shots fired
My husband and I want to play Dungeons and dragons but we have no friends really (cause we are 37 and 36 and everyone we know has kids while we are still working to make them after 4 year lol) and we have never played before cause... well... I wasn't even cool enough for the nerds to want let me play with them when I was in school... and well my husband kinda just I dont know didn't 😂🤣😂 but we very much appreciate and enjoy your videos lol so thank you for posting them dude! And keep up the good works!
Check some local hobby shops. Some places run game nights and are really open to teaching new players. Of course there are some that are tight groups but I know some people are super open.
@@Ingothrial wow really! Totally gonna have to check them out! Didn't think of that for whatever reason lol seems pretty obvious now that I think about it lol thank you so much! You are wonderful!
One of the things I've wanted to do was to create Humanoid settlement that is literally just the dwelling of a Giant that once lived their. (What may have been a simple manor for a Giant would be an entire city for humans.) I just need to find a was to represent that architecture.
1:03 love the whistle
Fun additional scary facts about giants.
Storm giants: whenever they are nearing the end of their life and don't wanna die, they go full druid and become an immortal living storm, surround whatever place they do this shit in for the rest of time until they are slain. How do you kill a literal living storm? No idea.
Hill giants: oh yea if one of them gets so sick that they keep throwing up, they actually lock the giant away and starve them until he gets better. This leads to most the time rampage as remember food is a hill giants religion literally.
Frost giants: Ever wonder what some storm giants do to bulk up and become chieftain? Well one forbidden and taboo way is to go abandon Thyrm as your lord and savior, worship troll god, go out and slay a troll, then consume its carcass to gain its regenerative powers. The fucked thing here is that they may develop vestigial body parts such as extra heads, a tail, arms, legs, nipples, etc etc due to frost giants biology not suppose to be like a troll. When they are finally figure out they are thrown out the clan because weakness reasons and they just wander around fucking up everything in pure rage.
Stone giants: my favorite fucking thing about stone giants is canonically they are overpowered as fuck. You know how they call the world outside their cave "Land of dreams" and shit? Well stone giants are lucid dreamers. Translation: they literally start to bend reality, the laws of nature, gravity, etc etc if they spend long enough outside their underground cave home. To them the world is literally a dream, meaning to them that they can do whatever they want so normally its common to see a chaotic fuck off stone giant turning a boat into a war ship and chucking that bitch at an adventuring group for the lolz.
I would comment about my plans involving giants in my campaign but I know a bunch of my players watch this channel too.
Risk it
Stuff stuff seems like something Stefon on SNL would talk about.
“It’s when you take a bunch of midgets-” *covers mouth to keep from laughing* “and see how many you can fit in your mouth without swallowing them”
Never clicked on a video so hard since I'm running storm kings
Hill giants: hungering behemoths
Fire giants: warrior smiths
Stone giants: dreaming destroyers
Snow giants: destructive raiders
Storm giants: watching sentinels
Cloud giants: GAMBLE
7:30, Fire Giants: Blacksmiths and Generals. 7:48, Fire Giants: Aren't Generals
I’ve only played a couple sessions of dnd but I’ve been watching your vids for like a year bc of how much I enjoy listening to you explain such an interesting lore in such a comedic way.
Really dig your video, surprised though that there was no menchon of Firbolgs.
1:18 And yet all of these coexist in spell-jammer. It’s ambitious, but in my campaign setting I’m attempting to reconcile all of these histories and lores.
Runesmith: "On the top of the pantheon is Stronmaus, who's like storm Jesus."
Me: "So... Zues... you're trying to say he's like Zues..."
Well that depends how much he fucks around.
Jesus-not much.
Zeus- fucked EVERYTHING that moved.
My first campaign was also my DMs first time playing D&D on either side of the board and he deadass made my Dwarf Barbarian and a Blind Monk fist fight a frost giant.
1:17 im pretty sure you meant Dark Sun
Thank you for uploading! I'm planning a campaign based on a Fomorian being born without the fey curse, and reforming the giant kingdom of old, and this will help greatly!
13:24 Still waiting for the final "And that's basically Giants"
Dude your weft and weave of the lore proper is amazing, it inspires me every time to new desires of "epic".
Had a good laugh from this. Great "cameo" from Oney. Anyone else preorder the Freddy Freaker plushie?
This is probably my favorite video of yours. I just love giants. Idk why.
This was a very good video and very informative but it is a shame you forgot about the other Giant-kin the Firbolgs which are the best.
I'm making a homebrew campaign all about giants, so this video was perfectly timed and very helpful!
Ettins are actual giants, the first was just a runt and thus wasn't accepted by their brethren.
Now I can't shake the image of Saxton punching a guiralon into a fine red mist.
7:26 You can't fool me. That's just Ganondorf.
holy shit
Imagine being some elf arcane fighter, then the fire giant scores a crit and yells DORIYAH. Then you're an Orc Barbarian who just joined a group of adventurers after their elf got obliterated by a giant
And the cloud giant is Hannibal Lector.
When he covered rock throwing, am I the only one who pictured the beast titan from Attack on Titan in that scene where he crushes a boulder and baseball pitches a shotgun blast of pebbles?
Wait. So when giants ruled there were just them and dragons. But there was noone else around that they could compare their size to other then dragons. So, is a giant even a giant when all they have besides them are dragons?
They aren't giants we're minis!
Harshnag the Grim is a pretty interesting frost giant NPC; and can provide great insight into giant culture (if you’re running a Forgotten Realms campaign).
He was basically a social outcast among frost giants…he had empathy for the intelligent “small folk”; which went against his clans beliefs that the weak don’t matter; and only the strong should rule.
This led Harshnag to venture south on his own, where he became a folk hero of sorts…initially frightening to the people; Harshnag became a savior when he went out of his way to fight other monsters in order to protect the “little people”.
Harshnag then became a member of the Gray Hands; basically a superhero of Waterdeep. Now he treats the city as his home; and it’s people as his new family.
When I use him, he speaks highly of Storm Giants (“strong like the frost giants; but with enviable wisdom”), warily of Cloud Giants (“I can never tell what those lot are thinking”), and a bitter rivalry with Fire Giants (ruthless bastards that remind me ‘o my kin…‘cept they have better weapons”).
Harshnag thinks Stone Giants are weird (“Too much time underground”), and sort of pities the Hill Giants (“they drew the short end ‘o the Ordning…if even one ‘o them had their wits about ‘em…they could be great”).
He also (in my campaign) has an awkward fondness for the royal princess of the Storm Giants, Serissa; as they both enjoy the small folk.
(my table joked that the two of them are just “nerds” who treat the small races like a hobby; and that people are just like “minis” to them…got very meta).
Holy shit! The royalty free music you used starting from 0:50 nearly gave me a heart attack, I thought one of my hentai games was open on another computer.
Just saw this pop back in my feed. A while ago I watched this video and it inspire a concept for a 5e campaign. It's been going on since, and it's one of my proudest works in terms of story telling, world building, and overall fun at the table. So ya, thanks :)
I love how you included Tal'Dorei in your list of different histories for the world of D&D
Thank you for this! Just about to run SKT for my party and will be watching this on repeat.
Another video? SO SOON?
This upload schedule really is inconsistent.
got-em
Ok. I am so happy that i rewatched this video, i have had Morose idiots stuck in my head for two weeks and i had no idea where i heard it. Thank you Runesmith
I love you, Logan. Keep that amazing content coming please UwU
Thank you once again for uploading these kinds of videos! I really enjoy them!!!
Their social status depends on their wealth, More like *clout* giants, amiright?
11:30 Oneys also talk to themselves like Ettins
Who would win? Ancient and powerful dragons that breathe fire or one Goliath rocky boi?
Love how I came back to this video, purposefully and undoubtably read the title, but then immediately watched the sponsorship and expected the video to be over. Concluding, "Yes, that's definitely the video I was looking at this is fine, very entertaining Mr. Smith of Runes you've made another banger once again- nevermind it was 3 years ago- wait what-"
that only sponsorship that was funny and i don't play d&d