Cloud giant race

Race cloud giant

• Alignment: any
• Stats: +5 to str, +2 to wis, -6 to dex, +4 to con
• Size: huge
• Classes: any, except vampire
• Resistant: to slash, cold
• Vulnerable: to lightning, mental
• Effects: flying, pass_door

Cloud giants resemble enormous humans, standing roughly three metres tall. Their facial features are quite handsome and sharply defined. The skin of cloud giants ranges in colour from milky white with a bluish tint to the colour of a blue sky. Their hair is often silver-white or bronze, their eyes bright blue.

Cloud giants are wiser and far stronger than humans, but fall well short of other races in agility. They love music, fine clothing, and jewellery. In combat, cloud giants love to swing enormous maces and can find and hurl boulders at their opponents.

Their gaseous nature grants them the ability to fly, lets them slip more easily from nets, and makes them less vulnerable to cutting weapons -- but easily vulnerable to lightning. It is said that great mages of antiquity could muddle the minds of certain cloud giants and bend them to their will, then imprison them in sealed vessels -- copper lamps, for instance...

• Unique abilities: search stones
• Bonus skills: fly, mace, throwing weapon

For details on each parameter, see help race bonuses.