Hey gang, you can check out the DELVE kickstarter right here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobworldbuilder/delve-5e-shadowdark?ref=71d6qy Also, what monster would you like to see show up next time?

guys whatever you do dont shame dungeon dad by mentioning he missed the day for the eclipse for this giant xD

"the seers are all just giant neards" well , technically they are gargantuan neards

The darkest day in the fire giant nation was the day of black sun.

Eclipse Giant + Genius Loci is an absolutely incredible premise for a campaign. Oh. My. GOODNESS.

I like the idea of an eclipse giant wanting to get off the planet/otherwise out of the range of an eclipse because their true self is something that horrifies them.

Dungeon Dad: *releases new Giant* Me: Oh boy, what weird technicality on the Ordening are we going to discuss today!

So, my first thought when I started this video was an eclipse chasing eclipse giant. Fun fact: Eclipses actually happen nearly every single day. It's just that a lot of the time they happen where no one can see them, like over the ocean or something like that. There are people in the world that make a career out of flying all over and watching/taking photographs/video of eclipses as they happen. So, why wouldn't there be at least one eclipse giant doing just that? I imagine these things live super long lives and so, eventually, the eclipse giant might have a full on map of where an eclipse was happening every single day of the year when combined with the complex arithmetic that they go through to predict them under normal circumstance. Just imagine this triathlon athlete of an eclipse giant that's constantly running/swimming/climbing from one location to the next to follow the eclipses as they happen so that they are constantly in touch with their True Selves. Imagine there's at least 2 of them, one for solar eclipses and one for lunar, and they meet up occasionally. Their findings and habits would probably be huge in the eclipse giant world and make them celebrities or folk heroes, and, should something major happen where the eclipse giants have to mobilize in great numbers for this purpose or that, they could defer to these two for precise knowledge of when and where an eclipse will happen so that the maximum number of eclipse giants are in touch with their True Selves as often as possible, making them extremely mobile but also extremely powerful. My second thought when I got about midway into this video when we were talking about chucking rocks at people: Imagine a localized apocalypses caused by eclipse giants who are far, far, far away. Think about it: Some kingdom has some beef with these giants for whatever reason or another, but recently, there's not been a lot of tension. A lull in the fighting. Perhaps the kingdom thinks they've won the conflict. Then, one day, suddenly and out of nowhere, gigantic boulders start raining down on the castle and the capital city surrounding it and no one knows where it's coming from. They're literally flying from over the horizon and landing there, because, hundreds of miles away, the eclipse giants are sitting under an eclipse and throwing these boulders so far away that they might as well be orbitally bombarding you. There's nothing you can do to stop it. All you can do is wait and try to survive, and when it's all over in a couple of hours, there's so little left of the kingdom's capital that it's unrecognizable. An entirely new lost civilization has been made because the inhabitants wanted to screw around and find out with some eclipse giants. I really like this monster, and my players are actually starting to fiddle around with giants in my campaign, so I'll be sure to fit these guys near the top of the Ordining - right under titans, hecatoncheires, and Chronos himself.

Okay, but an Eclipse Giant that gets the powers of Ultimate Kars during an eclipse would be the scariest thing of all time.

I’d like to tell you all a story: One morning, a chipper young man awakens. Today is a big day; his final exam for his degree is Astrophysics. He make sure to arrive early and when he begins his exam, he is shocked to find it a breeze. For the rest of the day, his is an invincible joy, amplified by the discovery that his favourite DND KZfaqr, Dungeon Dad, has made a new video today. As he sits down to enjoy his dinner while watching the video, he learns it’s about a race of giant astrophysicists. Truly, there are no coincidences.

To put their scale into perspective, being 6'2'' makes you a tall human being. Next to an eclipse giant, you would be about as tall as its ankle bone. You are as big to them as a pet rat is to us. They cover a fast humanoid's entire movement speed in a single step.

I can't get over the fact that the art in this video implies that Eclipse Giants are fat normally but get magically thin ones every decate for an evening or so ... that is trully terrifying indeed.

Solar eclipses aren’t terribly rare, they just happen all over the world so we really can’t see all of them, so it might be interesting to see how they would act as a nomadic people, lunar eclipses are more common than solar eclipses, and it would also be interesting to play with the idea of the totality of the eclipse and how much or how little it empowers them, does the eclipse need to be a total solar eclipse, or can it be a partial eclipse to impart upon them a fraction of their true self? How would the nature of eclipses and celestial phenomena impact their culture and politics? Would they wage wars among each other over an area that is somehow more likely to see more eclipses than another? How would a planet with multiple moons or suns play into their existence? Like those are very big questions.

I'd like to imagine a moon giant and a sun giant doing a Dragon Ball-style fusion dance when they come across each other while having the time span of Escanor from Seven Deadly Sins while transformed as an Eclipse Giant.

I’m totally putting a group of these guys in my spelljammer campaign. The twist? The planet they’re on is perpetually locked into an eclipse. They’re always hyper powerful as long as they don’t leave.

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Finally a giant that is actually gargantuan in size.

Eclipse Giant hires the party to planes hop to map out all the eclipse dates in those realms so he or she (giant) can maximize his or her's ability to create legendary items, etc.

5:04 So they have power to surpass a Pie Fiend, permanently "charming" anyone and anything who tastes it and winning the giant a truly loyal ally. What a truly powerful and devious ability, that gets an Eclipse Giant a squad of (Epic) Dragon bodyguards, or the beginnings of a new empire, or maybe even the starting event for peace between Giants and Dragons🧐

Imma gonna use this for a character. I wanna make a guy with some long forgotten ancestry of these guys and something happened the day of his 18th birthday. There was an eclipse and everyone in his town disappeared. He doesn't remember what happened so he's looking for everyone while trying to figure out what happened. I like this because the DM can do a bunch of different stuff with that.

02:37 #freedomunits baby

Yeesh this is a fascinating monster! Loved the plot hooks, and my dude, absolutely wonderful ad read xD and I will cherish that 'good designer' hat forever.

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"In a group of eclipse giants, we have 1 individual who hated that they were so limited to their true potential. So he went on a quest, a quest for having that potential 100% of the time. A total, permanent, eclipse. If this individual, who is shunned by his people for making such a mockery of these cosmic events believing in more the old ways of respecting the natural way of having them, would succeed. Then the eclipse giant race would reach a treat level unheard of to the material plane." Fun campaign idea maybe?

The little monster intro music makes me do a little dance every time. During the duration of the eclipse they should be under the effects of the 9th level Foresight. You know because they should. They spend they time trying to foresee the eclipse, because during the eclipse they can foresee? huh? huh?

How I treat the ordaining is that Anam the all father is a multi sphere deity meaning that he is worshiped on various planets in the universe. The storm to hill ordaining in the one for the giants born to Othea. The sun and moon giants are part of a different sphere( adding eciplse to this list too now) born from a sky deity.

That preview drawing X) Literally ur-skek from "The dark crystal"

I was literally just cruising your older videos today! It's crazy to see how your style has evolved while retaining the best parts Edit: gravitational lensing is an actual distortion of our view of the stars caused by massive objects whose gravitational field is so strong it bends light around it, similar to how black holes are black because no light escapes them. Giant stellar genius loci warlock patron?

I was just literally making a homebrew fae giant for a dnd campaign

I can't help but imagine an Eclipse Giant that is, in some way, like Kenshiro. Like, for example, a giant that, for whatever reason, got marked with the big dipper against their will and then exiled from their community. And maybe their "true self" is simply being a peerless martial artist.

2:22 I seem to recall you having a video about significantly larger then gargantuan living constellations, but I forget the name. Or was that someone else?

That preview... is the request I made literal years ago FINALLY going to get a video! I'm so excited.

I’m just upset that it took me this long to realize I wasn’t already subscribed to dungeon dad 🤦🏾

Dang, between prophecy and eternal eclipse plot, you'rlve already sussed my ideas! Oh well, here goes: 1. Maybe in your world, there is a ritual to make normal giants into celestial giants as a way to overthrow the Ordining entirely (including the most powerful Eclipse giant for the power hungry). 2. Maybe the genus loci communes via an emissary and assassinating them is your mission. 3. You need an eclipse giant to write one of the magic item manuals in time for an event.

I love the idea of the frost giants or someone trying to make an eclipse happen and lock it in place to “make endless cold” only for the eclipse giant to step out of the eclipse as it becomes a portal.

The perfect analogy for this could be Superboy Prime as he joined the Yellow Lantern Corp. Every hero came at him.. but when day broke and sun hit him the fight was instantly GG

As a narrative suggestion, making the ability gained during the eclipse into a trait determined by the giant's family line might make for a very compelling plot thread. Perhaps the elixir of immortality is a secret that only a specific family of eclipse giants can divulge; therefore, that family may be being hunted and the party must protect the youngest member until the time of an eclipse. Lots of potential in a race with a precious surge in potential like this.

Your plot hook idea of them noticing an impending doom among the stars reminded me of your video on the Tzitzimitl, the giant skeletal aztec star gods that want to snuff out the sun. The idea of the eclipse giants noticing the stars going out one at a time over the course of millennia, with the frequency steadily increasing over the years, and fracturing into two sects upon realising these are approaching, one side welcoming it under the premise that the sun disappearing might by technicality count as an eternal eclipse for their purposes, where the other thinks this is a clearly terrible thing regardless of whether or not that technicality would turn out to be true and seeks to warn the other giants of the approaching threats. Given their size and average strength they might not even consider humanoids in general as being worth bringing into the loop aside from maybe a handful of exceptional and famous individuals, and the party only finds out through other weaker types of giant they're already dealing with who decide they were worth recruiting. From what I understand of the Giant-Dragon relationship they probably wouldn't want to let them know purely out of spite, but getting the dragons in on the prep as well could even be one of the objectives the party has to deal with, building just enough of a bridge for them to work together at least a little to keep the world from ending.

How bout this: Eclipse, Sun and Moon Giants were on Toril, but their seers foresaw the King-Killer Star heading towards the planet and had visions of the impending Dracorage. They decided to peace out to another realm for a few millenia and took the other cosmic giants with them. There could be legends among the giants that their cosmic kin would return to advise and settle disputes as they once did, bringing harmony and strength to the Ordening. Maybe your spelljamming adventuring party is sent by a Storm Giant noble to investigate rumors of Eclipse Giants on another plane. Bringing them back to Toril would have a huge impact, and it's likely that dragons in particular would want to stop you. On the other hand, giants would want to help you, and it's possible this could kick off another conflict between dragons and giants...

Dude of the artwork is a beast. Absolutely amazing piece.

i loooooove the new style you have, and the little chia commercial at the end!!

So glad you prevented the eclipse giants from taking over the world by delaying their arrival until after the eclipse was over. You're a genius!

I really appreciate the work you put into the intro and editing in general. Nice work.

"I CAST CRUSHING BOULDER OF FRIENDSHIP" *Human ally, watching his new giant buddy huck a rock the size of a prize-winning pig at him:* "Whu-"

Me who’s BBEG is a moon dragon turned dracolich who lair is a small moon that’s nearly impossible to see: oh I could these!

Imagine there is a pale night cult that goes to a giant thatcan answer all question during the eclipse and the mission is to protect the giant from interacting with the giant and the final battle is a raid against the cult

As one of your french fans, I approve of your sweater, my man.

Oh shit…I’m pretty sure you just gave me the engines running my entire campaign. What an awesomely versatile creature!

The editing on this one was absolutely killer 🎉🎉🎉

0:17 Omg that jumper is _amazing_ ! Ok back to the video now

I was currently in the process of writing a campaign centered around a deity that is trying to cause an eclipse. The campaign is loaded with monsters from this channel such as the mercury dragon, the pink dragon, the faceless stalker, the boneyard, the living wall, the dark sun giants, this one, the spirit warrior, and I just want to say, thank you for everything you've posted its been such great inspiration. Now my eclipse deity is going to have a section of eclipse giant worshipers MWAHHAHAHAHA

Bigby’s book (while mid) introduced some powerful giant variants that master specific runes. The eclipse giant is equivalent in power to a frost giant that has fully mastered the ice rune. A storm giant that has fully mastered the storm rune is cr 20. Just imagine what cr a runemaster eclipse giant might have

this is the best thing ever, i’m literally writing a campaign about people trying to rebuild the sun and this is the best possible thing that could have ever happened to me

Hey, I haven’t seen a ton of templates taken on by you, so it might be that you’re not interested, but the 3.5 MM3’s Void Mind was always one of my favorite bits of terrifyingly creepy. I always did have aspirations of slapping that on a war troll (also MM3) and sending a creature with regeneration that couldn’t be shut off after a party to force them to find some creative solution to the the relentless assailant.

I appreciate all your videos! They always spark ideas for how to bring interesting stuff to my games!

1. Dude, you absolutely killed it with the plot hooks in this episode! Keep it up! 2. I feel like the seers would be insanely powerful simply due to their mathematical skills. Think about it; we use math and statistics in almost everything nowadays to predict the future. Heck, the algorithms that are so omnipresent nowadays are just a form of applied math and stats, YT, Ads, everything. If these guys are capable of mathematical predictions extending out into the century, or even millenia, timespan, then their presence alone, eclipse or no eclipse, could well disrupt society itself, as people race to use their mathematical prowess. 3. Jumping off of that, I think these guys would have interesting interactions with Moigno Maybe Seers are in a symbiotic relationship with Moigno, which feed off their true self's capacity for thought in return for providing them the ability to predict these eclipses? Heck, maybe that's why Eclipse giants' true selves are locked away; outside of eclipses, the Moignos are consuming all the power they generate to help them make these calculations. They could also have interactions with Sibyllic Guardians or Orange Seers, as comrades (or competitors?) in the business of predicting the future. Maybe there's even a whole underground trade for future predictions not based on magic, but on psionics and mathematics, since those are a lot harder to mess with? 4. That Ordning idea is really cool as well; maybe you could even have Eclipse Giants being the children of Sun and Moon Giants, and Seers are the exceptions among them. Maybe they could be like the Precogs in Minority Report, used to pre-emptively track events so that Giant society can counteract or leverage them? You could even have them be like a race of Hari Seldons from Foundation, where groups of them go out into space, or even the multiverse, to prevent massive, civilization-collapsing events from occuring. As a corollary, maybe you could even have them act like the Ancients from Stargate, or the Chozo from Metroid, for all other giants, massive, unknowable beings who wandered the cosmos and seeded knowledge across the universe for Giants to find it. Tying it to another giant you covered, you could even have Eldritch Giants be obsessed with finding magic and secrets because of the power the Eclipse Giants had. 5. What if you had Eclipse Giants who were truly multiplanar? Maybe they could act like wayguides for spelljammers, using their knowledge of multiple planes' crystal spheres and their cosmological cycles to help predict when and where a particular Sphere will be located at a particular time. I feel like you could use this to maybe set them up to have a similar presence in the overall DND universe similar to Dune's Spacer Guild. Or, if you wanted to, maybe they're more like Shai-Hulud, massive, unknowable beings who, when eclipses come, bring down wrath and destruction, and leave behind artifacts that are so powerful as to rival Gods. 6. This is also perfect for a new setting I'm making; It's essentially a colony world from Faerun where Giants, Dragons, Mindflayers, and Gith, along with all their associated vassals, were 'beached' by a Phlogiston storm hundreds of thousands of years ago, and whose collective souls became the new Gods of this uninhabited world. I feel like these guys could work well as a template for an oracle deity, maybe even something like Odin in Norse Mythology.

I love your videos because I've thought for a long time that there's too many monsters available. Too many dragons, giants, or any variation of a particular monster that feels like someone was filling out a checklist that says "hey, we've got to have 40 original ___ monsters by next week," rather than someone having an idea that feels unique and interesting. I'll see a thumbnail, think "oh great, another one of those. What's next, Uranium 238 dragons?" (Although....) But then I watch the video and the idea is usually really cool, and it turns out I'm just feeling unimaginative. Between the explanations, the ideas of how it fits into a campaign or into an encounter, or the brainstorm of awesome plot hooks, these videos give me that creative spark. Your stuff is like an eclipse level of creative inspiration! I'd better write my ideas down before I leave the path of totality.

The anti-phoenix would make an awesome addition to DND 😊

I actually enjoy your ad reads, very high praise comeing from me. Love the content!

Absolutely loved the use of Beserk image at 18:09 💯🤘⚡️💥🫀

I absolutely love the little animation at the start of every video

This fits a series of giant demigods I was putting off fleshing out. You better believe I'm inspired as hell.

Welcome back to Monster of the Week, the only series I keep coming back to every week. Thanks Dad!

Plot idea, eclipse giant wants to use Wish to make an eclipse eternal. time to stop it before the next eclipse grants it access to the spell!

Eclipse Dad Giant breaks leg. His: "Hey son want to play some catch with your old man" Son who got a paper cut. Him: "Sure Dad I would love to play catch with you"

ngl monster of the midroll was a genius integration

Absolutely loving the giant series! I hope you're getting enough rest, though. Your eyes look darker than usual. Love yourself as much as you love making your content. ♥

I love the idea of controlling an eclipse perpetually, whether that was with the genius loci or some other blockage to the sun

I really like the plot hook idea surrounding eclipse giants detecting anomalies in the stars that diviners don't notice. Although one might think that some gods would still notice and notify some people; but maybe even if that was the case they'd try to keep that information secret to a limited set of followers for whatever reason.

Sick. New dungeon dad video

Your videos give me so many ideas. Thank you for all you do.

Giant with a power to wipe out a kingdom during an eclipse because of their power over death goes beyond control and you have to stop it? Imprisonment spell to stop it from harming anyone. If said giant is willing to come back after the eclipse ends, cast Freedom to rescue it. If said giant is causing wanton destruction anyway, no harm in leaving it there If the players aren't leveled enough to use those spells, or don't have them, perhaps the aid of an NPC could be enlisted here

Never caught one so early, always love these!

Steve Lichman is awesome! Love seeing Dracula even if he does turn into a chocolate lab sometimes.

These animations are absolutely crazy. Great work

I just like to imagine a giant attempting to toss a healing stone and the catcher missing and just getting absolutely blasted by accident

Great video as always. Just two thoughts: 1st: Eclipse giants look like a pretty great way to introduce 10th level spells as they would be very limited in when to cast them, so you could have them reside in flying castles chasing the next eclipse 2nd: These guys are made for Spelljammer. Imagine them being able to chase eclipses on any planet or living on a world with 17 moons.

I fucking love this bro, it's going straight into my current DnD world that I'm building. My first thought about such a society of Giants is that they would require an immense amount of resources and I have been thinking about what I could populate a "distant mountain in the east" with... My idea is that as the races of the fertile plains rapidly multiplied and developed shooty things, they increasingly came into conflict with the mountain races, such as those of Dragons and Giants. The mountain races each reacted to this differently, and in this case, the "cosmic giants" come from this far-eastern MASSIVE mountain range that dwarfs the Central-Asian mountains of Earth. On these mountains, the cosmic giants carved out a society for themselves...literally. They shaped the very rocks of the mountains over millenia, carrying dirt up the mountains and planting hardy crops of their own and raising immense herds of goats and other creatures to sate their hunger. They also trade with the lowland races, with each giants capable of casually carrying an immense rock full of precious metals on its shoulders, worth a small herd of cattle.

Fun fact, the speed additional height grants for a walking creature is limited by gravity IRL. At a certain point, the time it takes a foot to "fall" starts to approach the time gained from longer legs. Moving feet down faster with muscles is only possible with bending joints in a way that prevents a walk/run motion and wastes net time. Speed increases as the square root of height rather than linearly. Thus, a creature ~6.5 times taller than a human only moves ~2.5 faster using standard bipedal motion. It's counter-intuitive, but they hang in the air a long ass time with every step, delaying the time until they can use their legs to add more forward force.

An epic level spell to lock a moon into place in front of a star would be really cool. Normally it would have many bad consequences (plants dying, sunlight Underdark races and vampires being unleashed on the surface world) but it would also fully unlock the potential of the eclipse giants. I would have the warriors of their army gain level 20 barbarian rage and the benefits from all the barb subclasses at once. That would be terrifying. XD

I have so many ideas... Squee! Top notch as always, Dad!

Imagining a divination wizard walking up with a "one" after learning about their healing rock

I’m running a dnd campaign for the last week of school next week and I’m so happy I stumbled upon this video this is my new favorite monster now

So this came just in time as I was making an empire centered on the moon with the Moon Dragons from your video leading an armada of soul charged lycans and soldiers sailing to all the worlds they can for conquest. And now you so nicely give me ideas for a God emperor of this moon empire! Thank you!

One other way to make things more complicated in your setting is adding more celestial bodies. If you're playing Spell Jammer, you could encounter an Eclipse Giant on a Plane with two Suns & Four Moons in a "Geocentric" orbit around it. Another example would be Eberon where the various Planes (or gateways to them at least) orbit around the Prime Material plane like Moons.

Hold on I gotta make some notes for a certain space game... Great work as always dude. I really am a fan of these obscure giant types.

i was already thinking about the a pairing with the sun and moon giants and dragons but this... this is just the key. a lintch pin in a huge campaign i've been working on to link everything together... ty for completing this MotW.

One idea I find kinda interesting with the seers is, what if there ISN'T supposed to be an eclipse but one nonetheless happens? Sure, your average eclipse giant might just look at it as a weird blessing, but to something that has spent his whole life researching one thing, seeing that one thing act completely out of left field has got to be... Troubling. Either in a, "all these squares make a circle" kinda way, or a "...Something is w r o n g . " way.

24:33 Bro just gave us the best Super Saiyan plot hook ever. These giants even have the Iconic gravity defying hair already conveniently built into the lore. lmao

I enjoy the idea of some eclipse giants who’ve lost there seers and found a circle of stars druids who filled the role. The almost symbiotic relationship would be interesting to explore

The obvious implication of this monster is to have a BBEG who you need to stop before a specific time. Like it's snuff life will become a global effect under an eclipse. To which I say flip the script, the BBEG is actually trying to kill the giant before or possibly _during_ the eclipse. Now I ask, who can threaten such a great giant, even during the height of it's power?

Point of information: "genius loci" is Latin, therefore hard C (that letter is the Roman equivalent of the Greek letter Kappa, as the letter K wasn't part of the Roman alphabet until centuries after Latin became a dead language).

I don’t know you, but I enjoy your videos periodically, and this one has concerned me enough to say: Please get sleep. The quality of your waking hours will be worth the “loss”. Thanks for everything you’ve added to my life so far!

Phaerimm please my DM loves those awful magic worms and everyone else needs to know their horror

Glad he mentioned the moon rats, I figured as fellow mega-planners they could get along (provided the 40 ft tall giants can even see/communicate with a creature 1.73% it's size at best)

Side tangent, I just had the idea for an entire world that was literally built on a sleeping giant. One that got so big, it grew larger than the planet it was born on, and now holds on to, in the fetal position, sleeping and floating through space

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! This is crazy! I had a dream about a giant like this- cannot believe it's real- and covered by Dungeon Dad of all people 😱 Mah hero!

My world happens to have a moon locked in a Lagrange orbit that keeps it in perpetual lunar eclipse... I think that's a bit dangerous to run this monster. I wonder if i should have them exist on other planets in the solar system and trying to get to the aforementioned planet.

"It just stole your soul and turned you into a sentient canvas. Which is bad" Thank you for that clarification, I wasn't sure how to feel about it

I wanna be an Eclipse Giant when I grow up. Seriously though, I think you just introduced me to my new favorite monster class!