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Revision as of 16:09, 10 December 2013

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stone giant CStone giant.png
HP 67-109
HD 16
XP 1422
Speed 10
AC 12
EV 2
Will 85
Attack1 45 (hit: plain)


Resistances rDrown
Vulnerabilities None
Habitat Land
Intelligence Normal
Uses Starting equipment
Open doors
Holiness Natural
Size Giant
Type giant, stone giant
Flags Speaks
Warm-blooded
A gigantic humanoid with grey skin almost as hard as rock. It carries several boulders, and is perfectly capable of flinging them a great distance.

“I really believe what you say, answered the knight; for, I have been engaged with the giant, in the most obstinate and outrageous combat that I believe I shall ever fight in all the days of my life: with one backstroke, slam went his head to the ground; and discharged such a quantity of blood, that it ran like rills of water, along the field.”
-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, _The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La
Mancha_, IV, 10. 1605.
trans. Carlos Fuentes, 1997

For a list of all giants, see list of giants.


Useful Info

Stone giants are quite common in the later parts of the Dungeon, where they can be quite dangerous, particularly to squishy casters. They hit hard in melee and can throw their large rocks further than you would believe possible. Fortunately, they have no particular resistances and have low EV.

Tips & Tricks

  • Mephitic Cloud is unlikely to affect them, given their high HD.
  • If you can't handle them in melee and don't want to be crushed beneath a flurry of boulders, try fighting them at range while invisible. It doesn't guarantee you won't still take a face full of rock, but it greatly reduces the odds of that happening.