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PostPosted: May 06, 2019 5:01 pm 
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Temple of the Frog (D20 Edition) mentions a Swamp Giant on p25. I can't find any stats for this creature except his hit points?

Anyway, have Swamp Giants been mentioned anywhere else? I don't think they are in the SRD.

There are also some interesting references about a time when lesser humanoids worshipped Giants as Gods and erected obelisks to their honor. I wonder if this is something we can tie to the ?

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 Post subject: Re: Swamp Giants
PostPosted: May 07, 2019 8:34 am 
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BTW, I noticed that the same module also references Swamp Trolls, which I presume are just regular D&D trolls that just happen to live in a swamp.

That doesn't tell me what kind of Giants the swamp Giants might be though?

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 Post subject: Re: Swamp Giants
PostPosted: May 07, 2019 1:25 pm 
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Interesting: Maybe the giant derives from a map hidden in Room 4 on the ground floor of the original 1975 TotF. The entry says "Leads to a giant’s den somewhere in the swamp." suppII p37

I've also noted, FWIW that the MMRPG adventure Episode 11 has "swamo trolls" and "marsh Goblins" and Episode 28 has a "marsh ogre"

The stuff is all in 3.5ese gibberish - so I don't know to what extent, if any these monsters differ from their non-swamp versions, but I guess that statistically they are identical. The swamp nature is prolly more about appearance, diet, and maybe one or two abilities. What do you think?

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 Post subject: Re: Swamp Giants
PostPosted: May 29, 2019 12:44 am 
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Probably not canon but:
https://spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Swamp_giant

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit ... e_monster/

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monst ... ant-marsh/

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Marsh_giant

I swore there was a bog giant as well. All the worlds monsters, fiendish codex etc probably has something. I did find the idea of nauseating stench like a stinking cloud, troglodyte, ghast i terestings as well as being venomous/poisonous.


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