Well, you don't often get to play truely parasitic people.  Even when they 'claim' to be parasites, like the zerg, there is little that really makes me feel that they are.  They have infected people and creatures, but that is about it.  Those creatures seem to be living alright on their own.   The people living in a giant would have to have some reason to want to do it.  Perhaps they use the giant's body heat to keep their nobility warm, or maybe they take some of the nutrients from the creature and bath in its body fluids (which they can only take in the right amounts as to not kill the creature).   It certainly would be an interesting twist from what is normally seen in fantasy games.

H.R. Giger is just as much a fantasy artist as Boris Vallejo, and some days you just want your art to be more creepy and dark than chesty and light. But a mod for The Inhabited Giant might need some kind of Not For Kids rating.

The idea also makes me wonder if there are any giants in the core Elemental canon, and if so, how big are they? D&D giants were puny compared to the ones in some myths. It'd be pretty neat if the sandbox map generator included a feature to lay down a mountain range based on the bones of a long-dead giant. Having your feet in north Georgia and your head in Maine--that's giant.

Damn you.

That brings up the idea of your elemental map being part of a creature. You know instead of the world being a planet, the universe is really a turtle who carries the world on his back. Or it could take place inside a giant worm or something. Map generation would be... interesting to say the least.

Also, none of you got the Enders Game reference? Im shocked

No worries, I got it! I didn't say anything because I was sure someone else would and I didn't really have anything to add...

Ender's Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. I have a mind like a steel sieve, so I totally deserve the scoff for the reference because I still don't know what it was despite remembering that I quite liked the novel when I read it.

??? I thought this was a friendly forum. Most of my reply 53 was self-mockery.

MOVIE?!?! *facepalm*

Speaking of sci fi thought, with a bit of reskinning do you think the elemental game terrain could pass for a field of stars?

Ach, you people suck. Suck, I tell you!

Actually, I disregarded it because it was a dead giant there...

Actually, in the original reference to the giant it was very dead - in the same way even that it died in the book

Oh, d'oh!