Bigby Presents: Glory of Giants (Dungeons & Dragons Expansion Book)

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And if you want to run something giant-focused and more in-depth than Against the Giants, you’re probably going to want that bit more.

It’s a fun book with a lot of cool lore and some exciting new character options, so we started by digging into the new backgrounds and feats. The new DnD subclass added in Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants is designed for barbarians who want to tap into primal power. The selection of possibilities connects to various types of giant, with cloud, fire, frost, hill, stone, and storm strikes available. Here Bigby and the demigod Diancastra, child of the giants' All-Father, Annam, unveil the secrets of Annam's mighty descendants. Strike of the Giants comes in a number of types, allowing players to inflict damage correlating with their chosen variety once per turn when hitting a target with a weapon attack.

It’s the sort of small things that almost any DM can do, and that can really make an encounter more memorable. Dungeon Masters will gain inspiration for bringing giants to life, from maps of giant-built sites and big new monsters to tremendous treasures and intriguing trinkets in a giant’s bag! Depending on the player and dungeon master, a barbarian transformed through rage can either maintain their fundamental appearance at a larger scale or change into a giant-like or even Elemental form. In total, the new material in Glory of the Giants that directly contributes to choices for character building amounts to one subclass, two backgrounds, and eight feats. No matter what strikes the fancy of players or dungeon masters among the subclass, background, and feat options in Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, the new sourcebook offers plenty of new ways to bring variety to the game table.

With a new subclass as well as several new backgrounds and feats, Glory of the Giants makes it easy to build characters that are larger-than-life in memorability even if not in stature.Adds giant-themed player character options where adventurers can evoke the glory of giants with 1 new barbarian subclass, explore the vast world of giants with 2 new backgrounds, and unlock 8 new feats to unleash runic magic and wield elemental power. Following in footsteps of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons is Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants, although I suppose that given their ancient rivalry the giants might prefer to think of themselves as making even bigger footsteps over the footsteps of the dragons.

Perhaps the most fun feature that Path of the Giant barbarians can employ on the battlefield is Mighty Impel, which allows them to hurl smaller creatures to other spaces within range.Discerning players can gain a lot from balancing the expenditure of spell slots and these invocations as long as they properly understand the risk of cutting off access to any specific spell. Also, for reasons unclear to me, there’s a Cheshire cat (don’t get me wrong, it’s neat, I’m just not sure why this is the book it showed up in). Characters with the Rune Carver background or a Spellcasting Feature have access to the Rune Shaper feat instead, which becomes more versatile as proficiency bonus increases. All updates are being done with care to make sure anything from fifth edition will continue to be fully playable.