Golian

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Overview

• Golian Visual Guide: Longstrider, Broadback, Roundback
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Physical Description

Golians highly resemble humans of exaggerated proportions and size. From the improbably tall to the enormously wide, Golians appear to have strong somatypical bias, enough to separate Golians into multiple castes. Longstriders and Broadstriders use their tall and athletic forms to maximize agility while making use of their great size and weight. Broadbacks and Roundbacks have enormous thick frames and heavy limbs to become walking tanks at the cost of reduced mobility.

Culture & Social

Golian culture can be described as ‘highly impressionable’, they often adopt the useful customs and traditions of other races and make it their own, they adapt well with others whether it is for their benefit or their own. Golians employ the use of costumes and mask-wearing as a way to express themselves in a way they want others to see them and exchanging gifts that correspond to a Golian’s sense of self helps form even stronger bonds between them.

Race Meta

• Height/Size: 24-36ft / 30ft (Huge, Size: 4)
• Type: Humanoid, Giant
• Rarity: Common in Saffron, Uncommon in Cerulean and Viridian.
• Faction(s): Saffron

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Racial Adjustments & Archetypes

Golian

Golians have a wide variety of sizes and shapes, but what can be considered true in all their forms is that they’re stronger and tougher than most and highly adaptable according their chosen path. In their purest form, Golians appear to be amicable amongst most races.

♦ Golians gain a +1 attribute bonus to Strength and Endurance, they also gain +2 attribute points they can distribute to any stat they desired. (This stacks with the 1 attribute point granted at creation).
♦ Golians also gain a bonus Skill-Focus to any skill group they desire. (This stacks with the 1 Skill-Focus granted at creation).
♦ Golians are considered Huge-sized: they have a size-rating of 4.

Warrior

Golians Warriors love playing with weapons and wearing armour, they practice against each other and against monsters, finding combat fun in all but the most dire scenarios.

♦ This Golian gain a +1 attribute bonus to Strength and Perception.
♦ This Golian also gains a Skill-Focus in one [Combat] skill group and all Defense skills.

Traits

Passive: Golian-Type

The player must decide which type of giant their Golian character will possess, this choice is permanent and cannot be easily changed, choose one sub-trait to overwrite Golian-Type:

Longstrider
♦ This Golian gains a +1 attribute bonus to Perception and Agility.
♦ They also gain a Skill-Focus in all Athletics and Defense skills.
♦ Longstriders are considered to be one size smaller for the purpose of Stealth checks.

Broadback
♦ This Golian gains a +1 attribute bonus to Strength and Endurance.
♦ They also gain a Skill-Focus in one [Combat]-oriented skill group and all Defence skills.
♦ Broadback Golians are considered to be one size larger for the purposes of resisting Movement and Knockback effects.

Roundback
♦ This Golian gains a +1 attribute bonus to Strength and +2 bonus to Endurance.
♦ They also gain a Skill-Focus in all Defence skills.
♦ They suffer a -2 attribute penalty to Agility.
♦ Roundback Golians suffer a 50% movement speed penalty, they cannot squeeze into a space narrower their their own space and considered to be in squeezing-status when entering and moving through enclosed areas equal to their own space.
♦ Roundback Golians prevent any unit, friendly or hostile, from moving through their space and they are treated as being one size larger for the purposes of resisting movement effects and knockback.