Half-Giant

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Half-Giants are a race in the Dungeons & Dragons setting of Dark Sun. They are magical fusions of humans and the now all-but-extinct giants, creating a race that fills the half-orc niche of "Big, Strong, Dumb Bruiser Race" with an even bigger, stronger, and bruisier race.

Half-Giants are remembered fondly for their stupidly high potential Strength and Constitution. They are remembered less fondly for their extremely high supplies requirements, and even less so for their mandated Chaotic Stupid racial fluff. Long story short, half-giants as a species suffer a really bad form of ADHD combined with multiple-alignment disorder, causing them to change minor (but arguably critical) aspects their personalities based on whoever's around them seemingly randomly, possibly each day. In a nutshell, half-giants latch onto and imitate the people around them, attempting to mirror the behaviour of whomever they perceive to be in charge, like some form of idiot-savant moral mimicry.

For anyone familiar with playing with random people, the potential problems with this is obvious, quickly descending into That_Guy territory faster than you can say Tectuktitlay. It is entirely possible that a That Guy-character will wake up one day and start to imitate the Chaotic Evil of the group's captors, simply because the captors are perceived as the norm and the player wants to, or that the half-giant That Guy decides to mimic the Lawful Good player's alignment as an excuse to turn the group's rogue in (which the group's lawful good character might have been ignoring for the sake of amicable play).

This was apparently considered so annoying that WoTC chose to dump it entirely in the 4th edition reimagining of the race, as well as mechanically reducing them to just simple reskins of the Goliaths, who were already designed to be giant-like huge, strong, tough humanoids, but without the simple-minded and degenerate nature of half-giants as originally envisioned in Dark Sun.