This will go very viral. Loved the Encounter and the Lore. The Giant as big, cattle-like gorilloids... not stupid, but slow, not tame but docile unless provoked... more like bears, not looking for conflict but simply destroying a tent in the process of looking for food... that's a novel take and I really like it.
@@Enkrod I’m glad you think so! We’ve been playing in this world for a little over a year now, and this is some of the most thought and care i’ve put into a custom setting in my near 7 years of GMing, so it’s wonderful to hear others enjoy it. The Hill Giants are definitely cunning and, like any wild animal, shouldn’t be underestimated. Our campaign has heavy undertones of Man vs. Nature and the corruption/degradation of the latter, something which the Campaign’s main villain really embodies. i would love to go more in depth about in another video in the near future! Thank you for enjoying my world so far!
I really like your interpretation of Hill Giants more as smart animals rather than moronic people. I've been thinking about doing something similar for my homebrew setting, and your video has really inspired me to continue with the idea. I really look forward to learning more about your setting, I've always wanted to see some more unique takes on giants and giant-kin for inspiration, and it seems like this setting has exactly what I'm looking for.
Im Really glad to see other DM and worldbuilders for D&D also run with the "Giants where here first, we're just living in what's left" idea! Also always happy to see another super continent enjoyer. Can't wait to see how you do Fire and Frost Giants.
@@dudeslayer4505 It just makes so much sense, both the “giants were here first” and the supercontinent world. It’s establishes world history and makes travel for players a lot simpler. Our current redesign of frost giants is probably my favorite, and Lee’s favorite has gotta be the fire giants, so we’re super stoked to show them off!
I kinda like your take on hill giants. They look silly yet pretty intimidating. The shaggy matted fur is my favourite part, never seen it in another giant design
@@petrschejbal8756 Thanks! That’s pretty much exactly what i wanted the initial feel of seeing a Hill Giant to be like. Just like a bull or an elephant, they can look silly, but sheer size alone would have anyone think twice about engaging with one face to face, even if they’re mostly docile. I’m glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for the comment!
@KrazyKDice also the fact that farmers and peasants build decoy houses to stop giants from associating human settlements with food. I thought that was pretty clever but of lore. It makes your world feel lively
I love this take on Hill Giants! They're still somewhat disgusting, but in a more natural and animalistic way, making it endearing rather than off-putting as opposed to the D&D ones who feel like slob-ish humanoids just asking for an arrow to the face.
I love this homebrew world! I've always been a big fan (no pun intended) of D&D Giants, they have so much rich lore where you can make something amazing and wonderful. If you have a google doc, I would 100% read the lore of your world. But I will say that I like your redesign for Hill Giants. I always saw them as unique because you can do anything with them. They could be more connect with nature, making them into druidic giants, or they could be nomadic people that travel throughout the lands. There is so much you can do with Hill Giants than just the standard stuff. Though I can't wait for the next video and see what you've done with Storm Giants.
@@dominicadorno5917 Thank you so much! In my game specifically, our hill giants function much like sharks do in our ocean’s reefs; An ever present force with no natural predators that prunes the diseased and dying from the ecosystem. I can 100% see them working as druidic guardians of the plains! Unfortunately I don’t use google doc to write down my notes (I use notion.so), but I will be routinely making and uploading videos about this world! I’m also still working on storm giants, but i feel like we’ve had some good ideas for them so far. thank you for commenting!
Pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this gem of a video in my recommendations. Both the design and the artwork expressing it are great; hill giants are actually my favourite iteration of the archetype in base D&D already (I find them much more versatile and compelling than the rest), but I love how you've reconceptualised them to align with the core concepts of your setting. The premise is very tantalising, I must say, so consider me intrigued. I also appreciate the thorough presentation. It's always nice to get a good insight into other people's creative process. I'm not sure if this was your intent or not, but the way your design melds with its environment - the silhouette, the moss-like strands of fur with clods of earth matted in - struck me as almost a more literal interpretation of the name "hill giant", bringing it further in line with the rest of its kin. I love how you've pushed it down this animalistic, ape-like path as well. It seems like it could be an earlier evolutionary divergence, a branch of the family tree that retained many of the primal traits the other giants lost. The chimp to their human, if you like (although from the sounds of it, I don't think the creatures of this world were naturally selected - I'd be curious to know). Anyway, great video, and I look forward to seeing more of Therenor.
@armata_strigoi_0 Thank you for such a wonderfully thought out comment. Hill giants are also my favorite of D&D’s giants, as I feel like the other five are too bound by the niche-ness of how they establish themselves in the Ordning. I’ve removed the Ordning from this world in favor of a system where the giants are simply a much older race of beings infused with primordial spirits who, over the course of thousands of generations, have been drastically and magically changed by their environments. No one giant race is superior to another, and all giants play the unique role of ensuring a healthy and thriving world, whether it’s unintentionally, as is the case of hill giants, or deliberately, as will be with stone giants. I plan on going over them in my next video. Thank you for finding interest in my world. I look forward to writing more about it over the coming days!
It actually makes sense that Hill Giants are gluttons, despite how cliche that is A creature of this size (think bears or mammoths) NEEDS a lot of food to keep itself alive. Most animals do two things in their life; eat or look for food. That is when they're not conserving energy through sleep. It makes sense that to keep up with that size, musclemass and weight, hill giants need to eat at least their body weight, while not being very intelligent because complex thinking also takes up energy
Giants are a folkloric subject that is close to my heart and I love to see different artistic depictions and unique takes on them. Glad to add yours to the list!
I like this style of adapting the D&D monsters to your own world. I’m working on ogres for my homebrew world right now, and will definitely think about this when I get to hill giants. The artistic rendering of the hill giant line by line was really fun to watch. And I would love to hear more about Therenor in future videos.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Lee (@batmiik), the artist for this video and one of the campaign's players, did a wonderful job taking these worldbuilding ideas and really bringing them to life. We can't wait to show off more!
Great twist on the hill boys! The way I handled their basicness was a bit different. Hill giants are known to have the most muscle out of all the giants, but it is hidden behind all that fat. So in my world, the dragons almost won the war against the giants. But they made the fatal mistake of underestimating the hill giants. Taking note of their gluttony and lack of intelligence, they imprisoned them in a mountain range and left them to starve under the watch of one of their greatest warriors. The hill giants went into hibernation, lost all their fat and became hyper muscular roided out giant bodybuilders. Ravenous from hunger, they awoke from their slumber and broke through the mountains, absolutely slaughtering their draconic captors and devouring them. When lean instead of obese, hill giants are at their peak performance, moving at blinding speeds with dexterous and savage movements and using their immense strength, comparable to some of their larger kin thanks to their increased musculature, to terrifying effect.
So large omnivorous herd ape-like animals. Interesting take you have there. Giants aren't something I've spent much time on in my own setting now that I think about it.
I love this take on giants and can't wait to see what you cook up next! Instantly subbed to the channel and I would love to see more of this world! I will ask, are dragons and other fantastical megafauna present in your world? In my world's North there is a region where the giants live a nomadic pastoral lifestyle with their herds of mammoth while keeping any thieving dragons away. The people of this region are sparse but eek out a living trading with the comparatively simpler giants by crafting them metal tools in exchange for some resources and protection against the many threats a smallfolk settlement is unable to fend off. Also, Sawyer Lee's Dragon Slayer Codex has a very interesting take on giants that you might find interesting and perhaps insipirational. They are still on the end of being more primitive and simple than humanity, yet remain distinctly intelligent and function as a somewhat benevolent protector of people in some areas. Love your work and can't wait to see more!
Thank you so much! Dragons and some other homebrewed megafauna are absolutely a presence in this world as well, and they still scuffle with giant kind in some areas. One of our players is a Drakewarden Ranger, so this became an important part of his backstory once he hit level 3. I Love the mutual relationship folks in your world have with giants, it provides them with so much more depth than just another monster to be slain. I definitely want to explore that relationship with some of the rarer giants in my setting. Also, i’ve heard a lot of good things about the dragon slayer’s codex! I’m certainly going to have to check it out. Based off your description alone, it sounds very similar to what i’ve been planning for my stone giants, who watch over the mountains and the animals that thrive there as ancient, druidic stewards. I plan on this being the next video I put out! Thanks for enjoying my ideas, and for sharing yours!
@@RealGuyNiche Hey! Our world, Therenor, is Pangea sized. The vast majority of life resides below the main mountain line, but there’s some very sparse populations of both smallfolk and giants that live within and past the mountain range in the icy north. I’d love to make another video about it when the map is updated some more! Thanks for the comment :)
Really love this concept for a world: unreasonably massive. I'd love to see what religion is like for the people here, and the giant natives. What stories do they tell about themselves? What form does their worship take in a land overshadowed by breathing collosus?
I've put much thought into religion for this setting. I was interested in the idea of developing a religious system which was very Animistic, really trying to hammer home the idea that every living and breathing thing plays it's own part in this world. Giants themselves would hold very primordial spirits within them and would feel much more in tune with their environments. Both smallfolk and giants would worship a small group of ancient spirits which embody different aspects of life, such as interconnectedness, resilience, and rebirth. There would be six primary spirits in total, each one associated with a Giant type, but giants and smallfolk would pay their respects to multiple spirits, if not all of them, when the need arises. It's still a work in process, But I'm excited to elaborate more on it in the future!
@@jamestitus472 In a way! We have one cleric who’s playing with phb domains and worshipping a forgotten realms deity, but i am in the process of assigning the cleric domains to each primary spirit for future clerics to choose from if they wish. A cleric devout in their worship would be able to call upon these spirits and draw power from them. I suppose it would be similar to how a life domain cleric would operate, where their power is connected through their nature and their faith.
Thank you!! I plan on releasing more videos talking about how we are reimagining the other giants soon. Not all of them will be primal, but all of them should have a relatively drastic overhaul. I personally really enjoy how stone and frost giants have been adjusted in our world, and i'm looking forward to going in more detail soon :)
We really need revisions to open the minds of people. Some have only met these monsters and creatures through very narrow passages. Many of these monsters are historic and come from all places of the world and all eras of man Let us not think there is only one type of dragon.
Yes! Currently have some solid ideas locked down for 4/6 of the giants, as well as a some art for a custom playable race for Half-Giants. My next video about redesigning giants will focus on Stone Giants!
This will go very viral. Loved the Encounter and the Lore. The Giant as big, cattle-like gorilloids... not stupid, but slow, not tame but docile unless provoked... more like bears, not looking for conflict but simply destroying a tent in the process of looking for food... that's a novel take and I really like it.
@@Enkrod I’m glad you think so! We’ve been playing in this world for a little over a year now, and this is some of the most thought and care i’ve put into a custom setting in my near 7 years of GMing, so it’s wonderful to hear others enjoy it.
The Hill Giants are definitely cunning and, like any wild animal, shouldn’t be underestimated. Our campaign has heavy undertones of Man vs. Nature and the corruption/degradation of the latter, something which the Campaign’s main villain really embodies. i would love to go more in depth about in another video in the near future!
Thank you for enjoying my world so far!
Couldn't have put it any better myself
I love your writing already.
Enkrod- write more. Put it out. I subscribed to your channel. I will wait.
I really like your interpretation of Hill Giants more as smart animals rather than moronic people. I've been thinking about doing something similar for my homebrew setting, and your video has really inspired me to continue with the idea. I really look forward to learning more about your setting, I've always wanted to see some more unique takes on giants and giant-kin for inspiration, and it seems like this setting has exactly what I'm looking for.
Im Really glad to see other DM and worldbuilders for D&D also run with the "Giants where here first, we're just living in what's left" idea! Also always happy to see another super continent enjoyer. Can't wait to see how you do Fire and Frost Giants.
@@dudeslayer4505 It just makes so much sense, both the “giants were here first” and the supercontinent world. It’s establishes world history and makes travel for players a lot simpler.
Our current redesign of frost giants is probably my favorite, and Lee’s favorite has gotta be the fire giants, so we’re super stoked to show them off!
I really like your take on hill giants. It makes them so much more interesting than "big stupid".
I kinda like your take on hill giants. They look silly yet pretty intimidating. The shaggy matted fur is my favourite part, never seen it in another giant design
@@petrschejbal8756 Thanks! That’s pretty much exactly what i wanted the initial feel of seeing a Hill Giant to be like. Just like a bull or an elephant, they can look silly, but sheer size alone would have anyone think twice about engaging with one face to face, even if they’re mostly docile.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for the comment!
@KrazyKDice also the fact that farmers and peasants build decoy houses to stop giants from associating human settlements with food. I thought that was pretty clever but of lore. It makes your world feel lively
I love how this concept grants hill giants the same kind of natural elements/landforms theming which D&D's other true giants enjoy.
A much cooler way to take hill giants, make them an actual of the landscape. Magnificent
Can’t wait for more from this world
I love this take on Hill Giants! They're still somewhat disgusting, but in a more natural and animalistic way, making it endearing rather than off-putting as opposed to the D&D ones who feel like slob-ish humanoids just asking for an arrow to the face.
I love this homebrew world! I've always been a big fan (no pun intended) of D&D Giants, they have so much rich lore where you can make something amazing and wonderful. If you have a google doc, I would 100% read the lore of your world. But I will say that I like your redesign for Hill Giants. I always saw them as unique because you can do anything with them. They could be more connect with nature, making them into druidic giants, or they could be nomadic people that travel throughout the lands. There is so much you can do with Hill Giants than just the standard stuff. Though I can't wait for the next video and see what you've done with Storm Giants.
@@dominicadorno5917 Thank you so much! In my game specifically, our hill giants function much like sharks do in our ocean’s reefs; An ever present force with no natural predators that prunes the diseased and dying from the ecosystem. I can 100% see them working as druidic guardians of the plains!
Unfortunately I don’t use google doc to write down my notes (I use notion.so), but I will be routinely making and uploading videos about this world! I’m also still working on storm giants, but i feel like we’ve had some good ideas for them so far.
thank you for commenting!
Amazing, could see a whole series of videos revolving around reinventing dnd monster
I love this take. But then again, I’m a sucker for anything that makes monsters more than just monsters.
Pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this gem of a video in my recommendations. Both the design and the artwork expressing it are great; hill giants are actually my favourite iteration of the archetype in base D&D already (I find them much more versatile and compelling than the rest), but I love how you've reconceptualised them to align with the core concepts of your setting. The premise is very tantalising, I must say, so consider me intrigued.
I also appreciate the thorough presentation. It's always nice to get a good insight into other people's creative process.
I'm not sure if this was your intent or not, but the way your design melds with its environment - the silhouette, the moss-like strands of fur with clods of earth matted in - struck me as almost a more literal interpretation of the name "hill giant", bringing it further in line with the rest of its kin. I love how you've pushed it down this animalistic, ape-like path as well. It seems like it could be an earlier evolutionary divergence, a branch of the family tree that retained many of the primal traits the other giants lost. The chimp to their human, if you like (although from the sounds of it, I don't think the creatures of this world were naturally selected - I'd be curious to know).
Anyway, great video, and I look forward to seeing more of Therenor.
@armata_strigoi_0 Thank you for such a wonderfully thought out comment. Hill giants are also my favorite of D&D’s giants, as I feel like the other five are too bound by the niche-ness of how they establish themselves in the Ordning.
I’ve removed the Ordning from this world in favor of a system where the giants are simply a much older race of beings infused with primordial spirits who, over the course of thousands of generations, have been drastically and magically changed by their environments. No one giant race is superior to another, and all giants play the unique role of ensuring a healthy and thriving world, whether it’s unintentionally, as is the case of hill giants, or deliberately, as will be with stone giants. I plan on going over them in my next video.
Thank you for finding interest in my world. I look forward to writing more about it over the coming days!
More!More!! We nead more videos about dnd monsters like this.
this is really freaking cool. VERY excited to see more
Just found your channel, gonna dig through your catalogue! Yay
It actually makes sense that Hill Giants are gluttons, despite how cliche that is
A creature of this size (think bears or mammoths) NEEDS a lot of food to keep itself alive. Most animals do two things in their life; eat or look for food. That is when they're not conserving energy through sleep. It makes sense that to keep up with that size, musclemass and weight, hill giants need to eat at least their body weight, while not being very intelligent because complex thinking also takes up energy
Nice, simple, and incredibly rich in detail. I especially love that it is not edition or version specific. Well done! (from a DM of 40 years)
@@Marcus-ki1en Thank you for the wonderful comment. I’m glad that this redesign resonates with even Veteran dungeon masters! Truly a compliment :)
Giants are a folkloric subject that is close to my heart and I love to see different artistic depictions and unique takes on them. Glad to add yours to the list!
@@that_1_guy975 What a wonderful comment :) I’m glad this redesign resonated with you!!!
This is absolutely incredible. Please i hope you enjoyed doing this and can do more
I like this style of adapting the D&D monsters to your own world. I’m working on ogres for my homebrew world right now, and will definitely think about this when I get to hill giants. The artistic rendering of the hill giant line by line was really fun to watch. And I would love to hear more about Therenor in future videos.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Lee (@batmiik), the artist for this video and one of the campaign's players, did a wonderful job taking these worldbuilding ideas and really bringing them to life. We can't wait to show off more!
I love the world-building and design. Would love to hear more about this setting.
you're gonna hit monstergarden level if you keep this up
@@JacobNorris-s1n What a compliment! Monstergarden’s worldbuilding videos are definitely an inspiration of mine, so thank you!
@@KrazyKDice of course!
Just a few minutes in, but loving it. Pretty sure I've found a new d&d channel to follow!
I hope this blows up, high quality video with a really cool concept
Thank you so much! I’m excited to share more very soon :)
Great twist on the hill boys! The way I handled their basicness was a bit different. Hill giants are known to have the most muscle out of all the giants, but it is hidden behind all that fat. So in my world, the dragons almost won the war against the giants. But they made the fatal mistake of underestimating the hill giants. Taking note of their gluttony and lack of intelligence, they imprisoned them in a mountain range and left them to starve under the watch of one of their greatest warriors. The hill giants went into hibernation, lost all their fat and became hyper muscular roided out giant bodybuilders. Ravenous from hunger, they awoke from their slumber and broke through the mountains, absolutely slaughtering their draconic captors and devouring them. When lean instead of obese, hill giants are at their peak performance, moving at blinding speeds with dexterous and savage movements and using their immense strength, comparable to some of their larger kin thanks to their increased musculature, to terrifying effect.
So large omnivorous herd ape-like animals. Interesting take you have there.
Giants aren't something I've spent much time on in my own setting now that I think about it.
Always happy to find a new world building project to follow best of luck and keep it up
love how well this is done, and the art rlly elevates it
This is so cool! Love videos like these.
I love this take on giants and can't wait to see what you cook up next! Instantly subbed to the channel and I would love to see more of this world!
I will ask, are dragons and other fantastical megafauna present in your world? In my world's North there is a region where the giants live a nomadic pastoral lifestyle with their herds of mammoth while keeping any thieving dragons away. The people of this region are sparse but eek out a living trading with the comparatively simpler giants by crafting them metal tools in exchange for some resources and protection against the many threats a smallfolk settlement is unable to fend off.
Also, Sawyer Lee's Dragon Slayer Codex has a very interesting take on giants that you might find interesting and perhaps insipirational. They are still on the end of being more primitive and simple than humanity, yet remain distinctly intelligent and function as a somewhat benevolent protector of people in some areas. Love your work and can't wait to see more!
Thank you so much! Dragons and some other homebrewed megafauna are absolutely a presence in this world as well, and they still scuffle with giant kind in some areas. One of our players is a Drakewarden Ranger, so this became an important part of his backstory once he hit level 3.
I Love the mutual relationship folks in your world have with giants, it provides them with so much more depth than just another monster to be slain. I definitely want to explore that relationship with some of the rarer giants in my setting.
Also, i’ve heard a lot of good things about the dragon slayer’s codex! I’m certainly going to have to check it out. Based off your description alone, it sounds very similar to what i’ve been planning for my stone giants, who watch over the mountains and the animals that thrive there as ancient, druidic stewards. I plan on this being the next video I put out!
Thanks for enjoying my ideas, and for sharing yours!
Love it!👏👏👏
I hope you draw more hill giants. Maybe 3D print minatures?🤓
Absolutely! We’ve also been working on STLs for some of these designs, and those will be shown off VERY soon!
@KrazyKDice awesome!
Great video
Dope
I would really like to know how big the continent is, like Africa? Pangea, or more like a continent big enough to fit in Jupiter ?
@@RealGuyNiche Hey! Our world, Therenor, is Pangea sized. The vast majority of life resides below the main mountain line, but there’s some very sparse populations of both smallfolk and giants that live within and past the mountain range in the icy north.
I’d love to make another video about it when the map is updated some more! Thanks for the comment :)
Really love this concept for a world: unreasonably massive. I'd love to see what religion is like for the people here, and the giant natives. What stories do they tell about themselves? What form does their worship take in a land overshadowed by breathing collosus?
I've put much thought into religion for this setting. I was interested in the idea of developing a religious system which was very Animistic, really trying to hammer home the idea that every living and breathing thing plays it's own part in this world. Giants themselves would hold very primordial spirits within them and would feel much more in tune with their environments. Both smallfolk and giants would worship a small group of ancient spirits which embody different aspects of life, such as interconnectedness, resilience, and rebirth.
There would be six primary spirits in total, each one associated with a Giant type, but giants and smallfolk would pay their respects to multiple spirits, if not all of them, when the need arises. It's still a work in process, But I'm excited to elaborate more on it in the future!
@@KrazyKDice Do you weave it into the dnd metaphysics wrt clerics etc? Like, do the spirits give divine power to mortals?
@@jamestitus472 In a way! We have one cleric who’s playing with phb domains and worshipping a forgotten realms deity, but i am in the process of assigning the cleric domains to each primary spirit for future clerics to choose from if they wish. A cleric devout in their worship would be able to call upon these spirits and draw power from them. I suppose it would be similar to how a life domain cleric would operate, where their power is connected through their nature and their faith.
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I love it! Really good take on the giants, will the others types also appear? Will they be more 'primal' like this one or more 'refine'?
Thank you!! I plan on releasing more videos talking about how we are reimagining the other giants soon. Not all of them will be primal, but all of them should have a relatively drastic overhaul. I personally really enjoy how stone and frost giants have been adjusted in our world, and i'm looking forward to going in more detail soon :)
We really need revisions to open the minds of people. Some have only met these monsters and creatures through very narrow passages.
Many of these monsters are historic and come from all places of the world and all eras of man
Let us not think there is only one type of dragon.
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Very Bigfoot-esque. It gives them a sense of biological realism. I like it!
Will you be redesigning the other giants and their kin?
Yes! Currently have some solid ideas locked down for 4/6 of the giants, as well as a some art for a custom playable race for Half-Giants. My next video about redesigning giants will focus on Stone Giants!
fantastic design
looks like he smells awful
ah.. I love a good fantasy creature reimaging in the morning, granted your no monstergarden but your good enough in his absence
:D
Nice take on hill giants and their biology. Minor critic, Emu is pronounced eem-you not eem-oo. Common mistake from non-Australians.
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Let's hope some more of the people that saw this subscribe, you deserve it lad ya got a nice story voice.