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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', titans are [[Humongous Mecha]] that vary in size; the Warhound class is the smallest, and is about the size of a large house, and the titans increase in magnitude until you get to the Emperor class, which can have a full-sized cathedral built upon its shoulders and carries [[BFG|guns you could drive a tank into]]. A lot of them are also millennia old.
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', [http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Titan titans] are a race of [[Our Spirits Are Different|outsiders]] (creatures native to the outer planes) who happen to be about 25 feet tall, so they're not only ''celestial'' giants, they are taller than the tallest "normal" giants. Every aspect of them is [[Perfect Life Form|perfect]]. In addition, they can cast powerful spells and speak several languages as standard abilities for the race. At a starting CR of 21, a titan with no other skills is equal to an epic-level [[Player Character]] in battle. In contrast to their usual portrayals, they're also (slightly) weaker than the gods and act as their servants. They are traditionally [[Chaotic Good]] and live on the plane of Arborea (also known as Olympus), though the Greek titans (Cronus, et al, referred to as Greater Titans) are actual deities (mostly of Intermediate rank, except Cronus and Rhea, who are Greater rank) and wit the exception of Rhea, imprisoned in Carceri (Tartarus).
** The Primordials (also known as Dawn Titans) of the 4th Edition are a mix of this trope and [[Elemental Embodiment]]. The class of creatures known as titans are the Primordials' first creations, who sided with their parents in the war against the gods and in turn created the various races of giants.
** One source mentions the Primals, entities worshipped by Druids and similar nature-oriented classes. Enemies of the Primordials out of necessity, they seem to be isolationists otherwise.
** In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', titans were the first creations of the gods, and half of them rebelled against their creators in the equivalent of the Titanomachy. The giants are their degenerate descendants. The titans who fought against the gods were imprisoned in the Abyss, while those who remained loyal live in Elysium.
* In ''[[Scion]]'', Titans are [[Eldritch Abomination]]s who are free of human shaping, hard to comprehend and [[Reality Warping|shape reality]] simply by existing. One of them is Hun Dun, who is [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Chaos itself]] and cannot be defined at all, even by itself.
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