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Cloud and storm giants are the most powerful of the standard races of giant in the D&D rules, the two final rungs on the ladder of incre...

The word "giant" entered the English language in the Middle Ages, coming from the Latin and Greek gigas via Norman French. Prior ...

Both frost and fire giants, as portrayed in D&D, are loosely based on the jötunn of Norse myth. In the original myths, this was a rathe...

Giants are a recurring figure in myth and folklore, appearing in the stories of just about every real-world culture. There's something f...

The bulette is a creature original to D&D. Like the owlbear, it's based on a plastic toy from Hong Kong, in its case probably meant ...

The strige is a creature of Roman myth, derived from the earlier Greek strix . It was said to be a nocturnal bird, albeit one that hung ups...

Manticores are creature not of Greek, but of Persian, myth. The name literally means "man-eater", and it's at least possible t...