---
title: "Plague Giant"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.8tgykcOqdDy8Zjyy" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/evil
  - pf2e/creature/type/giant
  - pf2e/creature/type/humanoid
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/14
statblock: inline
name: "Plague Giant"
level: 14
license: OGL
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary 3"
name: "Plague Giant"
level: "Creature 14"

alignment: ""
size: "huge"
trait_01: [[evil]]
trait_02: [[giant]]
trait_03: [[humanoid]]
modifier: 25
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+25; Low-Light Vision"
languages: "Common, Jotun"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Athletics: +30, Intimidation: +24, Religion: +25, Stealth: +26"
abilityMods: [8, 6, 7, 3, 5, 4]
speed: 45 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary 3_"
ac: 35
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "35; __Fort__ +27, __Ref__ +24, __Will__ +23"
hp: 285
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "285; __Immunities__  disease"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Items"
    desc: "[[Equipment/Flail|+1 Striking Flail]], Sack for Holding Rocks, 5x Rock"
abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Catch Rock|Catch Rock]]"
    desc: "`pf2:r`  **Requirements** The monster must have a free hand but can [[Actions/Release|Release]] anything it's holding as part of this reaction.\n\n**Trigger** The monster is targeted with a thrown rock Strike or a rock would fall on the monster.\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The monster gains a +4 circumstance bonus to its AC against the triggering attack or to any defense against the falling rock. If the attack misses or the monster successfully defends against the falling rock, the monster catches the rock, takes no damage, and is now holding the rock."

  - name: "Retaliatory Scratch"
    desc: "`pf2:r`  **Trigger** A creature within 10 feet makes a melee Strike against the plague giant\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The plague giant makes a claw Strike against the triggering creature."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Flail"
    desc: "+31 (disarm, magical, reach 15 feet, sweep, trip)\n__Damage__  2d6 + 14 bludgeoning plus atrophic-plague 3d6 poison plus atrophic-plague"

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Claw"
    desc: "+30 (agile, reach 10 feet)\n__Damage__  3d6 + 14 slashing plus atrophic-plague"

  - name: "**Ranged** `pf2:1` Rock"
    desc: "+28 (brutal, range increment 120 feet)\n__Damage__  3d8 + 14 bludgeoning plus rock"

  - name: "Divine Innate Spells"
    desc: "DC 34, attack +26; __6th __  _[[Spells/Toxic Cloud|Cloudkill]]_, _[[Spells/Death Knell|Death Knell (x3)]]_, _[[Spells/Take its Course|Take its Course]]_"

  - name: "Atrophic Plague"
    desc: " (disease,divine) **Saving Throw** DC 34 Fortitude check\n* * *\n\n**Stage 1** [[Conditions/Enfeebled|Enfeebled 2]] and [[Conditions/Fatigued|Fatigued]] (1 day)\n\n**Stage 2** [[Conditions/Enfeebled|Enfeebled 3]] and fatigued (1 day)\n\n**Stage 3** [[Conditions/Enfeebled|Enfeebled 4]] and fatigued (1 day)\n\n**Stage 4** dead"

  - name: "Hurl Corpse"
    desc: "`pf2:1`  The plague giant picks up a dead or dying creature within reach and flings it at a foe. The giant makes a rock Strike, using the body instead of a rock.\n\nIf the body is a corpse, on a hit it explodes in a cloud of thick gray vapor, exposing all creatures in a 10-foot burst to atrophic plague.\n\nIf the body is a dying creature, on a hit its dying value increases by 1 (or 2 on a critical hit)."

  - name: "Pustulant Flail"
    desc: "  A plague giant's flail is covered in pus, causing it to deal 3d6 additional poison damage."

  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Throw Rock|Throw Rock]]"
    desc: "`pf2:1`  The monster picks up a rock within reach or retrieves a stowed rock and throws it, making a ranged Strike."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Plague Giant
creatures:
  - 1: Plague Giant
```



Plague giants are rasping behemoths, whose weeping sores, fetid breath, and filthy fingernails all bear a terrible wasting disease. Like sewer rats or flies that swarm a fresh battlefield, plague giants bear an inborn pathogen that does little harm to the giants themselves (their wretched physical appearances are purely superficial) but can wreak devastation on afflicted victims.

Whatever their origin, the majority of plague giants are so accustomed to being viewed as monstrosities by other humanoids, giant and otherwise, that they become vehemently xenophobic. Some of their communities do permit other types of shunned humanoids-especially those with leprosy and other stigmatized diseases-to join their fold. Whether because they are expelled to the world's worst badlands or because they purposefully seek out such locales, plague giants often settle amid abandoned battlefields, sewer outlets, and other despoiled places. Their close ties to disease lead many to worship Apollyon, the Horseman of Pestilence, or other deities associated with disease. Plague giants claim that their kind is as death itself, violently rejecting the theory often touted among non-giants that they are an offshoot of some other giant ancestry afflicted with a terrible divine curse. (Most other giants also reject this theory.)

Plague giants measure 24 feet tall and weigh 15,000 pounds.

* * *

Many kinds of giants lurk in the inhospitable corners of the world, making their homes in unlikely locales ranging from fetid sinkholes and ruined battlefields to mass graveyards and barren badlands.
