I don't quite like Giants in D&D, the vast mythology built up around what, at least in fairy tales, are stupid and hulking beasts who stomp on villagers and eat them. Sky Giant? Fire? Storm? They seem removed from what giants are, just a larger type of human.
You don't always want your characters to interact with other humans, because although elves have the nature love and the dwarves have the mining schtick (as neutral stereotypes go) giants really are nothing more than large, imperious humans with a bizarre family tree. It isn't that exciting.
Giants, at least in Tiroeth (tuh-row-eth) are the more low-fantasy type giant in the vein of Game of Thrones or the Biblical Goliath. Huge, angry, almost beast like creatures who live in a stone age reality and generally hate humans.
So, while reading about giants I started building in my mind a type of giant who would basically fling pieces of flint at the party. Not a huge monster, but big, who live in caves in the hills and tend Dire Goats, hairy horses or somesuch.
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