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Desert giants area a type of giant native to Athas.

Description[]

Desert Giants are 25 foot-tall humanoids with exaggerated facial features: huge noses, jutting jaws, protruding brows, and so forth. The flesh of a desert giant is usually dark red, though some have skin that's jet black.

Desert giants have Strength scores of 24 (which provides a damage bonus of +8). They speak their own language and sometimes the languages of the human and demihuman communities nearest their islands.

Combat[]

If desert giants have ample warning of an attack (or are waiting in ambush), they first hurl rocks as their targets. Hurled rocks inflict 2d10 points of damage. Sometimes these giants fashion dead trees into huge spears that they hurl for 3d10 points of damage. Both types of hurled weapons can be thrown up to 250 yards. In melee, the desert giants employ huge spiked clubs (inflicting 2d8 points of damage).

Ecology[]

These giants live in clans on the islands of the Sea of Silt that most resemble the sandy wastes of the Tablelands.

They eat almost anything, though they prefer meat over vegetables. They can cross the shallow silt by wading through it. The desert giants often supplement their herding activities by crossing to the mainland to sell ropes made of their hair, or to raid caravans and villages.

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