Giant (CTD)

Giant (CTD)
Gender	Can be both Male or Female
Species	Chimera
Style	Animate Chimera
Type	Dreamed Chimera

Giant Chimera are a type of creature of the Dreaming.

Overview

Considering the number of dreams and stories about giants and giant creatures, it's amazing that the Dreaming does not have more such denizens. Around the turn of the century, when skyscrapers began to appear in mundane cities, giants began appearing less in the Dreaming. Perhaps the Dreamers, surrounded by looming, cavernous buildings, needed fewer gigantic residents within their imagination, or perhaps the sterile environments of the office buildings drove the giants deeper into the Dreaming. Who can say?

However, there are still a lot of giant humanoids and giant animals of all kinds in the Dreaming. Attempting to classify them all would take an encyclopedia. Suffice to say that giant animals possess the same attributes as their normal-sized counterparts. Giant humanoids, on the other hand, are either very strong and very stupid or cunning and possess redes (some can hurl lightning or cause storms, while the giant Utgardaloki was proficient at illusions and befuddlement). Some humanoids have a type of deformity (the cyclops' one eye, etc.), while others are perfectly proportioned, even attractive, creatures. The Dream Realm of Brobdingnag is populated by otherwise normal giants who are so large that no traveler to the Realm has yet caught their attention: visitors are ignored or inadvertently squashed. On the other hand, the 12-foot tall, brightly-painted Baseball Furies are constantly on the lookout for new balls (skulls) to use in their next game. If you aren't polite enough to give them your skull, they practice their line-drive on your cranium anyway.

Giant Animals

Giant, non-sentient animals mostly view normal-sized fae in one way: as food. Intelligent giant-sized chimera vary in temperament and motivations. The giant talking rats of Kovallabar lend assistance to anyone in their realm who can tell a good tale about the strange, shapeshifting rat-humans, or to anybody who has a tasty morsel of food. Giant seals tolerate travelers, unless such visitors stray onto the creatures' mating grounds.

Size

Giants come in three height categories: big (7-12 feet tall), humongous (12-20 feet tall), and titanic (20 feet or taller). Many trolls have allies among humanoid giants (+1 with Social rolls for some giants), while other giants attack trolls on site. Giant cultures range from prehistoric (rock brothers) to the Age of Reason (Brobdingnag).

Character Sheet

Giant (CTD)
Style	Animate Chimera
Type	Dreamed Chimera
Physical	Attributes: It is not possible to categorize all giant statistics. Let your imagination be your guide. To give you a start, here are some modifiers for giants based on size. Big: Strength +2, Stamina +2 Humongous: Strength +3, Stamina +4 Titanic: Strength +5, Stamina +5
Talents	Mostly Alertness, Brawl, Dodge and Melee, depending upon the level of culture (the higher their technology, the more Skills and Knowledges the humanoid giants possess).
Health Levels	Big: OK (x2), -1 (x3), -2 (x3), -5 (x2) Humongous: OK (x2), -1 (x4), -2 (x3), -5 (x3) Titanic: OK (x3), -1 (x4), -2 (x4), -5 (x3)
Attacks	By weapon, claw, tooth or fang.

Gallery

Art by Steve Prescott from The Bygone Bestiary.

References

• CTD: Dreams and Nightmares, p. 117-118