General Rules: Monsters - Giant, Glutton

Giant, Glutton (from Giant Lore)
Huge Giant

Hit Dice: 16d8+144 (216 hit points)
Initiative: -2
Speed: 30 feet
Armor Class: 20 (-2 size, -3 Dex, +8 natural, +7 armor); touch AC 5, flat-footed AC 20
BAB/Grapple: +12/+25

Attack: Scythe +21 melee (4d6+10, slashing, 20 x4) or rock +9 ranged (2d6+5, bludgeoning, 20 x2, 140 feet x5)

Full Attack: Scythe +21/+14/+8 melee (4d6+10, slashing, 20 x4) or rock +9/+3/-2 ranged (2d6+5, bludgeoning, 20 x2, 140 feet x5)

Space/Reach: 10 feet by 10 feet/10 feet
Special Attacks: Rock throwing

Special Qualities: Low-light vision, consume anything, healing glut, rock catching

Saves: Fortitude +19, Reflex +2, Will +7
Abilities: Str 25, Int 12, Wis 10, Dex 5, Con 28, Cha 6

Skills: Climb +18, Listen +5, Spot +5

Feats: Cleave, Iron Will, Power Attack, Stomp 'em Flat
Environment: Any

Organization: Solitary or band (2 - 6)

Challenge Rating: 10
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: +6

Glutton giants look like nothing less than mountains of fatty flesh. Standing 25 feet tall, their flabby bodies droop over ponderous legs that seem barely able to support the weight above them. They somehow manage to squeeze their five ton bodies into huge stained and soiled half plate armor, which they use just as much to support their bulk as they do for protection. Most have grey, bloodshot eyes and smell faintly of rotting food.

These massive creatures get their common name from their incredible appetites. A single glutton can eat his way through a half ton of food in a single day. If given the opportunity, a band can strip a city of food supplies in a week. They prefer well-prepared food but can and will eat any organic material, including things that other living creatures cannot digest.

No one knows why gluttons need to eat as much as they do, but they cannot force enough food down their gullets in the course of a normal day to satisfy their hunger. The more they eat, the more they need to eat, creating a vicious cycle that breaks only when the glutton finally dies; for most that death comes in their early twenties. A handful survive to see their 30^th birthday.

Combat
Glutton giants typically fight using scythes, which they also use to fell whole stands of trees at once for use as food. Most also carry 2d4 rocks in their giant's bag.

Consume Anything (Su): A glutton giant derives sustenance from any organic matter. The glutton giant is immune to any form of ingested poison or disease-contaminated foods.

Healing Glut (Su): A glutton giant gains one his point for every 250 pounds of organic matter it ingests. This is treated as healing if the giant is damaged, though he may exceed his normal hit point total by double his Hit Dice. Hit points gained in this manner are treated as temporary hit points, and disappear after one day. A glutton giant can consume 250 pounds of organic matter as a standard action or 500 pounds of organic matter each round as a full-round action.

Rock Throwing (Ex): A glutton giant can hurl rocks weighing 40 to 50 pounds up to 5 range increments of 140 feet. Giants receive a +1 racial bonus when throwing rocks.

Rock Catching (Ex): A glutton giant can catch Small, Medium, or Large rocks (or projectiles of similar size). Once per round, a glutton giant that would normally be hit by a rock can make a Reflex save to catch it as a free action. The DC is 15 for Small rocks, 20 for Medium rocks, and 25 for Large rocks. If the projectile has a magical bonus to attack, the DC increases by that amount. The giant must be ready for and aware of the attack.

Glutton Giant Society
Glutton giants are typically encountered either alone or in a small band of two to six other adults. A lone individual spends most of his time eating or searching for something to eat. A band typically seeks to establish some kind of master and servant relationship with other creatures, trading protection for a constant supply of food. If an established band or its charges come under attack, the gluttons will respond with lethal force.

Glutton Giant Characters
Glutton giants' favored class is cleric, though they commonly train as barbarians and fighters as well. In any band, one of the members will be at leasta 3rd-level cleric. Glutton giant clerics almost all follow Bål or Lug.

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