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Giant Campaign/Adventure

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#1
finalaxiom
Aug 27, 2008 20:13:22 Greetings, I am fairly new to DnD and the newer 4e supplements out there seem to be heavy on the cultish and sacrificial antagonists which I am trying to avoid mostly because the parents of my potential PCs are very iffy about letting them play in the first place (I say potential because we are still in the process of trying to convince them to allow us to play ; any comments on this are welcome as well.) But alas, I am going to attempt to write my own campaign or at least the first couple adventures and I am really liking the idea of giants. Fire, Ice, Mountain, you know those ones. I'm not at all familiar with the levels you can find these guys or much about them at all but I am looking for an adventure or campaign that deals with them or could give me ideas about cooking up my own adventure because it is proving personally difficult at this point to do this from scratch... So yes if anybody knows any let me know.
#2
strand0
Aug 27, 2008 21:22:57 Giants are high power bad guys. I usually start with ogres that work for giants. Then hill giants and work up from there... but that was with 3.5.
Not sure if that works with 4.0. ;)
#3
catzo
Aug 28, 2008 0:09:40 Where does the logic comes from, that tells parents that becasue you play a hero that kill evil demon-worshippers, you are going to turn into a demon-worshipper yourself? IT doesn't make any sense.

Well on to the Giant-part.

You could have a group of giants start invading the area the PC's live in, but the giants are the "kings" of the army. They use orcs, goblins and ogres as their main army.
Maybe by their logic size = rank. Which neatly fits D&D encoutner levels as well.

So at first the players will run into goblin raid groups, scouting the area. Then wil lcome the real army consisting of mainly hobgoblins and maybe orcs, with a fwe ogres inbetween, and finally (once they gained enough levels) they will ahve to take on the Giant lord of the army.
#4
strand0
Aug 28, 2008 3:29:26 off topic... nevermind.
#5
finalaxiom
Aug 28, 2008 15:51:55 Well catzo, my logic in not including these types of things is to avoid a situation where a parent walks in while I am describing the blood of recently sacrificed victims pouring onto a demon alter or something... So yeah most stuff is fine just not too much to that extreme.

And thanks I hadn't thought of the idea of just using minions at first. I kind of want to create a scenario in which the PCs are traveling to the enormous fortresses of each of the sub-leaders (giants) of this organization with a epic giant battle at the end of each. It will be good to eventually lead them to believe the giants are the bad guys and have that many levels until they can actually fight them to gain malice towards them.
#6
jdudley1121
Aug 29, 2008 18:38:32 I don't have much to say about your campaign, except I like it. I'm doing a similar thing right now with dragons and the campaign's been great. I do want to say right on! I had a player in the same situation in high school and they even burned several of my groups books at one point. It's people like that who would have killed the DND game long ago if we allowed them to. I think it's part of our jobs as gamers to fight for everyones' right to game without discrimination. Keep it up, man.
#7
krichaiushii
Aug 30, 2008 14:45:48 The Giant strongholds... if feeling froggy, perhaps acquiring copies of the old G1-G2-G3 Against the Giants and/or the 2d edition Against the Giants: the Liberation of Geoff could provide some ideas.

You would need to do some heavy converting to make them 4th edition capable, but you can steal the fluff without too much problem.

If it gets to high enough levels, allies among the Storm Giants and perhaps a Titan could be interesting.

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#1 finalaxiom Aug 27, 2008 20:13:22	Greetings, I am fairly new to DnD and the newer 4e supplements out there seem to be heavy on the cultish and sacrificial antagonists which I am trying to avoid mostly because the parents of my potential PCs are very iffy about letting them play in the first place (I say potential because we are still in the process of trying to convince them to allow us to play ; any comments on this are welcome as well.) But alas, I am going to attempt to write my own campaign or at least the first couple adventures and I am really liking the idea of giants. Fire, Ice, Mountain, you know those ones. I'm not at all familiar with the levels you can find these guys or much about them at all but I am looking for an adventure or campaign that deals with them or could give me ideas about cooking up my own adventure because it is proving personally difficult at this point to do this from scratch... So yes if anybody knows any let me know.
#2 strand0 Aug 27, 2008 21:22:57	Giants are high power bad guys. I usually start with ogres that work for giants. Then hill giants and work up from there... but that was with 3.5. Not sure if that works with 4.0. ;)
#3 catzo Aug 28, 2008 0:09:40	Where does the logic comes from, that tells parents that becasue you play a hero that kill evil demon-worshippers, you are going to turn into a demon-worshipper yourself? IT doesn't make any sense. Well on to the Giant-part. You could have a group of giants start invading the area the PC's live in, but the giants are the "kings" of the army. They use orcs, goblins and ogres as their main army. Maybe by their logic size = rank. Which neatly fits D&D encoutner levels as well. So at first the players will run into goblin raid groups, scouting the area. Then wil lcome the real army consisting of mainly hobgoblins and maybe orcs, with a fwe ogres inbetween, and finally (once they gained enough levels) they will ahve to take on the Giant lord of the army.
#4 strand0 Aug 28, 2008 3:29:26	off topic... nevermind.
#5 finalaxiom Aug 28, 2008 15:51:55	Well catzo, my logic in not including these types of things is to avoid a situation where a parent walks in while I am describing the blood of recently sacrificed victims pouring onto a demon alter or something... So yeah most stuff is fine just not too much to that extreme. And thanks I hadn't thought of the idea of just using minions at first. I kind of want to create a scenario in which the PCs are traveling to the enormous fortresses of each of the sub-leaders (giants) of this organization with a epic giant battle at the end of each. It will be good to eventually lead them to believe the giants are the bad guys and have that many levels until they can actually fight them to gain malice towards them.
#6 jdudley1121 Aug 29, 2008 18:38:32	I don't have much to say about your campaign, except I like it. I'm doing a similar thing right now with dragons and the campaign's been great. I do want to say right on! I had a player in the same situation in high school and they even burned several of my groups books at one point. It's people like that who would have killed the DND game long ago if we allowed them to. I think it's part of our jobs as gamers to fight for everyones' right to game without discrimination. Keep it up, man.
#7 krichaiushii Aug 30, 2008 14:45:48	The Giant strongholds... if feeling froggy, perhaps acquiring copies of the old G1-G2-G3 Against the Giants and/or the 2d edition Against the Giants: the Liberation of Geoff could provide some ideas. You would need to do some heavy converting to make them 4th edition capable, but you can steal the fluff without too much problem. If it gets to high enough levels, allies among the Storm Giants and perhaps a Titan could be interesting.