Trell Half-Giant (3.5)

   Simple-minded creatures, half-giants are large and powerful, standing nearly twelve feet tall. While legend states that they are the magical combination of giant and human, created by some long-forgotten sorcerer for martial purposes, half-giant can and do breed. Some have even formed communities of their own.

   Personality: Half-giants are notorious imitators and readily copy the customs and actions of those nearby who draw their attention and/or respect. Half-giants are often curious, willing to learn, and unintentionally destructive.  Age is an oddity, giants start out with 2yr +d3  6 being an a mature grown adult.

   Physical Description: Half-giants average about twelve feet in hight and can weigh close to a ton. As a player, never forget how extraordinarily large you are. Companions go into that dungeon? You get to stay outside unless you can tear the roof off the place (not to say you won't try). Everybody go into the alehouse to drink? Unless you tear the wall off, you better hope they're heading to the upstairs balcony if you want to join in. The half-giant's biggest asset is also their biggest weakness, and they can expect (rightly so!) to be the main target of an enemy's aggressions. A half-giant's hair is thick and wiry and often worn in either loose braids (dredlocks) or a single braid down their back.

   Relations: The most powerful warriors on Athas, half-giants seem content to simply live in humanity's shadow. Half-giants tend to be childlike in their moods and behaviors and will often adapt an imitative posture of charismatic or well-liked characters in their party. A half-giant will very, very rarely be the dominant voice in a party.  For reasons unknown many 1/4ling and 1/2giants have become very close friends...

   Alignment: The true nature of a half-giant shines through when they select their alignment. A half-giant needs only to select one axis of their alignment (good, neutral, evil, or lawful, neutral, chaotic). The other half is mutable, to a certain extent. For example, a half-giant who is a simple lawful farmer, may turn chaotic if marauders destroy his farm, leading him to adapt a lifestyle more similar to the marauders.

   Religion: Being so childlike, half-giants as a whole do not favor one element over another.

   Language: Half-giants have no language of their own, taking on the language of the city-state or village they call home. They may also learn or adapt the language of a nearby village or tribe, should it fancy them to do so.

   Names: Normally being denizens of the city-states, and often serving the armies of the sorcerer-kings, half-giants usually have human names, but may be given names of races or individuals favored by their half-giant parents.

   Adventurers: It takes little more than a charismatic companion to convince a half-giant to wander.

Half-Giant Racial Traits

·                         +8 Strength, -2 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, -3 Intelligence, -3 Wisdom, -4 Charisma.

·                         Giant Size: Half giant are of type Giant and start with 2d8 hit points, no matter what their class is. They have a base Attack Bonus of +1, Fort Save +3, and their single starting feat.

·                         Skill points: a half-giant starts with (2+Intelligence Modifier) x 5 skill points instead of their standard class starting skill points.

·                         Base movement of 40.

·                         Half-giants have darkvision out to 60 feet.

·                         Natural Armor: due to their large size and thick skin, half-giants have a +2 to their Armor Class.

·                         Level Adjustment: Due to their heavy strengths, Half-giants have a +1 level adjustment.