The latest upcoming Dungeons & Dragons publication, a sourcebook titled Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, follows the pattern of previous DnD 5e expansions such as Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, which focus on the journals of famous DnD characters. Bigby, the wizard who created the iconic Bigby’s Hand evocation spell and was a significant NPC in Gygax’s Greyhawk setting, is now the central character of this new giant-themed DnD sourcebook.
Recent sourcebooks published by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition have heavily featured major NPCs from various DnD campaign settings, such as Tasha, Xanathar, Mordenkainen, and Volo. Except for Xanathar, who runs a Thieves Guild and is a Beholder, these characters are eccentric, wandering wizards who collectively invented many of the spells used by arcane mages in the DnD multiverse. Now, Bigby joins their ranks with his own book, which provides more information about the lore surrounding the NPC and offers new campaign options for DnD players.
According to the Wizards of the Coast DnD website, Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants is a 5th edition sourcebook set to be released on August 15, 2023. Like Volo’s Guide to Monsters, which was presented as an in-universe book written by the wizard Volothamp Geddarm, Glory of the Giants will be flavored as a treatise on giant lore compiled by the wizard known as Bigby the Great and the demigod giantess known as Diancastra. In some ways, this sourcebook will be the spiritual successor to the 2016 DnD adventure book Storm King’s Thunder, where adventurers protected the Sword Coast from giants and mastered runic magic.
Wizards of the Coast have confirmed that there will be a new subclass for barbarians in Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants. It is likely that this barbarian subclass will be an updated version of the “Path of the Giant” Unearthed Arcana D&D subclass on the Dungeons & Dragons website. Although the original UA seems to have been taken down, the original text for the write-up is still available on certain wiki pages. Core features of this subclass, such as “Giant’s Havoc,” upgraded the utility of a Barbarian’s Rage power, allowing them to grow in size, improve their reach, and mimic DnD giant characteristics such as hurling boulders or elemental energies. Glory of the Giants will likely update this UA class to be less overpowered but more versatile.
The Storm Giant’s Thunder sourcebook introduced eight magic items that were explicitly empowered by one of the Giant Runes, each possessing a feature allowing players to extract the rune’s power and infuse it into another object or place. Many of these runes possessed Old English/Germanic titles and represented metaphysical concepts such as:
2023-06-07 22:00:05
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