race features:
Appearance
Goliaths vary in appearance depending on their ancestry. A Fire Goliath will have charcoal skin and hair of smoking flames. A Stone Goliath will be bald with grey skin that’s covered in tattoos. A Cloud Goliath will be tall and lanky, with soft light grey skin and eyes the color of milk.
Jötunn’s Might
You have proficiency in the Athletics skill, and you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Blood of Titans
Your Giant-kin heritage allows you to connect more easily to creatures that share your Giantish nature. Whenever you make a Charisma check when interacting with Giants, your proficiency bonus is doubled if it applies to the check.
Subraces
Goliaths are half giants, as such there are many different types of Goliaths hailing from different kinds of giants, choose your ancestry here:
Stone Ancestry
Your blood traces back to stone giants, their toughness is in your skin and blood.
Ability Score Increas
Your Constitution score increases by 1.
Stone’s Endurance
You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce it by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t ise it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Born Of Stone
You have advantage on saving throws to resist being petrified.
Frost Ancestry
Your blood traces back to the reaving frost giants, their hardiness in the cold is your power. You descend from frost giants, hardy creatures who live in incredibly harsh conditions, amongst snow capped mountains and frigid, icy wastelands. Their skin appears in many different shades of blue, striking against their white hair. Many frost goliaths sport beards and long hair, much like their giant ancestors.
Ability Score Increase
Your Strength score increases by 1
Frigid Soul
Your frost giant heritage gives you resistance to cold damage. Additionally, you can tolerate temperatures as low as −50 degrees Celsius without any additional protection.
Frost Breath
As an action, you can breathe frost over a creature within 5 feet of you. If the creature is Large or smaller, they must make a Strength saving throw or be flash frozen in place, the creature is petrified for 1 minute. If the creature takes fire damage, takes more than 20 damage in a round, or another creature uses it’s action to free them, the creature is no longer petrified.
The DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.
After you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.
Fire Ancestry
Your blood traces back to rumbling volcanos and devastating forest fires. The military lifestyle of the fire giants grants you an aura of respect and command.
Ability Score Improvement
Your Charisma score increases by 1.
Volcanic Flesh
You are resistant to fire damage.
Military Training
You are proficient in longswords, battleaxes, greataxes, and greatswords.
Hill Ancestry
Your blood traces back to the dimwitted cannibal hill giants, and while you may be slow in the head, you make up for it by being a true survivor.
Ability Score Increase
Your Intelligence score decreases by 2 and your Constitution and Strength scores increase by 1.
It’s Good Eatin’
You can eat raw or spoiled food and gain nourishment from it, you can also consume and digest any organic material that would normally cause sickness or death.
Cannibalize
As an action, you can eat a part of a corpse within 5 feet of you, when you do this, you gain temporary hitpoints equal to 1d12 + your Constitution modifier.
You can use this ability a number pf times equal to your Constitution modifier, afterwhich you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.
Cloud Ancestry
Your blood traces back to the oppulance of the cloud giants. Near the top of the hierarchy of giant ancestrys, cloud giants mainly care about gifting to others of their kind, and having a rich culture and economy so they can sneer at those less privileged than then.
Ability Score Increase
Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Blessing of Sky
You are resistant to thunder damage.
Persuasive Intellect
When you make a Persuasion, Intimidation, Deception check you can choose to use your Intelligence instead of your Charisma for the roll.
Storm Ancestry
Your blood traces back to the overpowering strength of the lawful storm giants, you command some semblance of their control of the storm.
Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom Score increases by 1.
Lightning Rod
You are resistant to Lightning damage.
Stormbolt
You hurl a lightning bolt at a point within 150 feet of you, all creatures within 5 feet of the point you choose must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 4d6 lightning damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 7d6 at 6th level, 10d6 at 11th level, and 13d6 at 16th level.
The DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.
After you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.
Halvbrud Ancestry (Half-Goliath)
Half-goliaths have some innate sence of adaptibility and versatility, thanks to their human parentage. Since that initial contact, the Half-Goliaths (also known as halfbloods) have traveled across the globe. Sometimes they pass as taller humans, sometimes as shoeter goliaths. Half-goliaths retain the features of its smaller parent, its goliath ancestry only apparent through a greater proportion of rippling muscle and itimidating appearance.
Ability Score Increase
One ability scores of your choice increase by 1.
Mixed blood
You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice, fluency in one language of your choice and one artisan's tool of your choice.
Shrug It Off
You have advantage on saving throws against being stunned and paralyzed.
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