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Giant, Cloud

CR 11.00 Humanoid NG or NE Huge HD 16
This towering giant has finely chiseled features. Her skin is pale and smooth, and her long wispy hair flutters as if in a breeze.

Cloud giants' skin ranges in color from milky white to powder blue. Adult males are about 18 feet tall and weigh around 5,000 pounds. Females are slightly shorter and lighter. Cloud giants can live to be 400 years old, and dress in the finest clothing and jewelry available. To many, appearance indicates station. The better the clothes and the finer the jewelry, the more important the wearer. They also appreciate music, and most can play one or more instruments (the harp is a favorite).

Cloud giants have an unusually wide alignment spread—approximately half are good and half are evil. Good cloud giants build roads from their settlements to connect with other humanoid roads in order to foster trade. It's not uncommon to see a good cloud giant walking among humans, for example, in a human city near a tall mountain range. Evil cloud giants tend not to bother with permanent settlements and instead live on high peaks in crude shelters, only coming down to raid villages for whatever they might need. These two philosophies often see violent and long-lasting wars erupt between neighboring tribes.

Legends abound of magical cloud giant cities nestled in the very clouds themselves that float with the winds and circumnavigate the world. While most cloud giants recognize this as a fantasy, there are some who not only claim to have seen them but have dedicated the entirety of their long lives to finding them again.

HP
168 (16d8+96)
AC
25, touch 9, flat-footed 24 (+4 armor, +1 Dex, +12 natural, -2 size)
Init
+1
Speed
50 ft.
Fort
+16
Ref
+6
Will
+10
BAB
+12
CMB
+26
CMD
37
Melee
morningstar +22/+17/+12 (4d6+18) or 2 slams +22 (2d6+12)
Ranged
rock +12 (2d6+18)
Space
15 ft.
Reach
15 ft.
Defensive Abilities
rock catching
str
35
+12
dex
13
+1
con
23
+6
int
12
+1
wis
16
+3
cha
12
+1

Weapons: Simple

rock throwing (140 ft.)

Oversized Weapon — A cloud giant can wield Gargantuan weapons without penalty. Most favor the use of immense morningstars.

Universal Monster Rules

Rock Catching Ex from Universal Monster Rule
The creature (which must be of at least Large size) can catch Small, Medium, or Large rocks (or projectiles of similar shape). Once per round, a creature 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 a Small rock, 20 for a Medium one, and 25 for a Large one. (If the projectile provides a magical bonus on attack rolls, the DC increases by that amount.) The creature must be aware of the attack in order to make a rock catching attempt.
Rock Throwing (140 ft.) Ex from Universal Monster Rule
This creature is an accomplished rock thrower and has a +1 racial bonus on attack rolls with thrown rocks. The creature can hurl rocks up to two categories smaller than its size; for example, a Large hill giant can hurl Small rocks. A “rock” is any large, bulky, and relatively regularly shaped object made of any material with a hardness of at least 5. The creature can hurl the rock up to five range increments. The size of the range increment varies with the creature. Damage from a thrown rock is generally twice the creature's base slam damage plus 1-1/2 times its Strength bonus.

Special Abilities

Oversized Weapon from text
A cloud giant can wield Gargantuan weapons without penalty. Most favor the use of immense morningstars.

Feats, Traits & Items

Awesome Blow from Feat

As a standard action, the creature may perform an awesome blow combat maneuver. If the creature's maneuver succeeds against a corporeal opponent smaller than itself, its opponent takes damage (typically slam damage plus Strength bonus) and is knocked flying 10 feet in a direction of the attacking creature's choice and falls prone. The attacking creature can only push the opponent in a straight line, and the opponent can't move closer to the attacking creature than the square it started in. If an obstacle prevents the completion of the opponent's move, the opponent and the obstacle each take 1d6 points of damage, and the opponent is knocked prone in the space adjacent to the obstacle.

Cleave from Feat

As a standard action, you can make a single attack at your full base attack bonus against a foe within reach. If you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an additional attack (using your full base attack bonus) against a foe that is adjacent to the first and also within reach. You can only make one additional attack per round with this feat. When you use this feat, you take a –2 penalty to your Armor Class until your next turn.

Great Cleave from Feat

As a standard action, you can make a single attack at your full base attack bonus against a foe within reach. If you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an additional attack (using your full base attack bonus) against a foe that is adjacent to the previous foe and also within reach. If you hit, you can continue to make attacks against foes adjacent to the previous foe, so long as they are within your reach. You cannot attack an individual foe more than once during this attack action. When you use this feat, you take a –2 penalty to your Armor Class until your next turn.

Improved Bull Rush from Feat

You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a bull rush combat maneuver. In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on checks made to bull rush a foe. You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an opponent tries to bull rush you.

Calculated: +2 Maneuver Check Bonus
Improved Overrun from Feat

You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when performing an overrun combat maneuver. In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on checks made to overrun a foe. You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an opponent tries to overrun you. Targets of your overrun attempt may not chose to avoid you.

Calculated: +2 Maneuver Check Bonus

Add your Strength modifier to Intimidate skill checks in addition to your Charisma modifier.

Iron Will from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on all Will saving throws.

Calculated: +2 Will
Power Attack from Feat

You can choose to take a –1 penalty on all melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +2 bonus on all melee damage rolls. This bonus to damage is increased by half (+50%) if you are making an attack with a two-handed weapon, a one handed weapon using two hands, or a primary natural weapon that adds 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier on damage rolls. This bonus to damage is halved (–50%) if you are making an attack with an off-hand weapon or secondary natural weapon. When your base attack bonus reaches +4, and every 4 points thereafter, the penalty increases by –1 and the bonus to damage increases by +2. You must choose to use this feat before making an attack roll, and its effects last until your next turn. The bonus damage does not apply to touch attacks or effects that do not deal hit point damage.

Climb +19, Craft (any one) +10, Diplomacy +9, Intimidate +26, Perception +17, Perform (string instruments) +8

spell-like abilities:
At will—Levitate, At will—Obscuring Mist, 1/day—Fog Cloud
Details
Type
Humanoid
Alignment
NG or NE
Size
Huge
Environment
temperate mountains
Organization
solitary, gang (2-5), family (2-5 plus 35% noncombatants plus 1 sorcerer or cleric of 4th-7th level and 2-5 griffons), or tribe (6-20 plus 1 sorcerer or cleric oracle of 7th-12th level and 2-5 griffons)
Treasure
standard (chain shirt, morningstar, other treasure)
Senses
low-light vision, scent; Perception +17
Languages
Common, Giant
Source
Bestiary
Source

Bestiary

Attribution

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Sources Used in This Record
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  • Uses feat: Awesome Blow (Feat) — cites Paizo Inc.
  • Uses feat: Cleave (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Great Cleave (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Improved Bull Rush (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Improved Overrun (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Intimidating Prowess (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Iron Will (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Power Attack (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Levitate (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Obscuring Mist (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Fog Cloud (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
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