Giant, Plains

''Plains Giant With long, delicate features and darkly tanned skin, this giant appears as some breed of enormous elf. Its limbs are long, its hair is fair and its eyes are a pale grey in color.''

Tactics
Plains giants prefer to attack their enemies by hurling rocks. If forced into melee combat they will fight using stone clubs.

Description
Plains giants appear to be huge versions of elves. Their 25 to 30 feet of height is mostly in their legs and they have distinctly elven facial features. Their skin is usually a dark red or brown. Plains giants have fair hair and light blue or gray eyes.

Society
Plains giant clans inhabit the less rugged, brush-covered islands of the Silt Sea. They produce food by gathering vegetation and by herding kanks, erdlus, and erdlands. Plains giants maintain more contact with other races than most giants. They have been known to act as mercenaries for villages, merchant houses and city-states.

Plains Giants as Characters
A plains giant's favored class is fighter. Most clans include clerics that serve Air.

Plains giant characters possess the following racial traits.
 * +24 Str, +2 Dex, +12 Con, -4 Int, +2 Wis, +2 Cha
 * Huge. As Huge sized creatures, plains giants receive a – 2 penalty to Armor Class, -2 penalty on attack rolls, -8 penalty on Hide checks, +8 bonus on grapple checks and have lifting and carrying limits quadruple those of Medium characters
 * Space/Reach: 15 ft./15 ft.
 * A plains giant's base land speed is 40 feet.
 * Low-light vision.
 * Racial Hit Dice: A plains giant begins with 16 levels of giant, which provide 16d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +12, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +10, Ref +5 and Will +5.
 * Racial Skills: A plains giant's giant levels give it skill
 * points equal to 19 x (2 + Int modifier). Its class skills are Climb, Jump, Listen, Spot and Survival.
 * A plains giant's giant levels give it 6 feats.
 * Weapon Proficiency: A plains giant is proficient with all simple and martial weapons.
 * +12 natural armor bonus.
 * Special Attacks (see above): Rock throwing, PR 15.
 * Special Qualities (see above): Rock catching.
 * Automatic Languages: Giant (plains dialect). Bonus
 * Languages: Common.
 * Favored Class: Fighter.
 * Level Adjustment: +4.