Against the Giants

Setting: Greyhawk / Sterich and the Underdark Approaches Unlock: Complete Scourge of the Slave Lords Difficulty: 1.35× Part 4 of 5 — The Greyhawk Arc

The giant raids began without warning. Hill giants out of the Crystalmist Mountains, frost giants from the Icy Sea, fire giants from the volcanic regions to the south — coordinated, purposeful, and aimed at settlements that have no obvious strategic value unless someone is mapping routes.

Greyhawk City finally acted when the raids reached Sterich. The party has been asked to find out who is organizing the giants and stop them. The answer, when they find it, is going to be worse than giants.

Unlock Requirement

Complete Scourge of the Slave Lords before attempting this campaign. Use !campaign against-the-giants to begin.

Stages

Five stages move through three layers of giants and into something below them — the hill giant steading, the glacial rift, the fire giant king's hall, a passage that does not appear on any surface map, and a vault that the party was not meant to find from above.

The campaign follows the standard named campaign structure — rest shrines between stages, Brother Yvannis appearing at stage 3, and a party vote at the end to determine the outcome.

The Boss

The giants did not organize themselves. The architect of the raids waits at stage 5 — in a location that explains everything the party has been finding since the steading. She has been expecting something like this since Hommlet. Not this specific encounter. Something like it.

Endings

After the boss is defeated, surviving participants vote on how the campaign ends. There are four possible outcomes. Each carries a persistent consequence that follows players into future campaigns.

Stage Milestone Titles

Reaching each stage earns a permanent title regardless of the final outcome.

Clear Title

All survivors of a full clear earn a unique title for having descended through three layers of giants into what was below them.

Artifact

A unique artifact drops to a random survivor on full clear. It identifies the bearer to anyone in the Underdark who knows what it means.

Continuing the Arc

Completing Against the Giants unlocks Queen of the Spiders — the fifth and final campaign in the Greyhawk Arc. Use !campaign queen-of-the-spiders to begin.

TIP

ℹ️ The giants are not the problem. The giants were never the problem. The problem is what sent them. Keep that in mind when the vote comes.

WARNING

⚠️ This campaign ends in the Underdark. What the party chooses at the end determines whether they follow the thread deeper or bring what they found back to the surface. Both choices have consequences. Neither choice is clean.