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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4469104" data-attributes="member: 3087"><p>Gith are interesting. </p><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They are flavorful and interesting; they have a lot of what WotC calls "traction"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They generally fit... poorly in game settings.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can't play them in FR, in a way that really connects well with the setting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They work good in PS (but so does everything)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They were extensively reworked in Spelljammer and DS.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arguably the Kalashar in Eberron are actually restructured Gith except they're not ugly (racial war, human projenitors, escaping to another plane to live a monastic lifestyle oriented around psionic development).<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Naturally this precludes gith really working well. (I had a whole sub plot planned for s@s eberron game where my dwarf thought that our gith was actually a "<span style="color: DarkOrange">really ugly human</span>" and tried to get the clerics to "<span style="color: DarkOrange">cure whatever curse the lad's under</span>")</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul><p>Also, in 3.x they were LA+ so.... Anyway it was usually messy. Githzerzai +6 to dex was usually were leveraged to compensate producing some nasty characters (i.e. weapon finesse + dex + magic items to push up dex to the mid-high 20s... I don't want to call it cheesy but it's very focused and your class choices are limited too.)</p><p></p><p>So it's a great race that people couldn't usually play.</p><p></p><p>Our setting is unusual in that it has Gith in a way that is more pure than most settings but has them fairly tightly integrated (Dunamin did a great job threading the needle on this if I do say so myself).</p><p></p><p>It seems natural to me OOC.</p><p></p><p>IC.... Given that they're raiders and warriors and engaged in a holy crusade (in one way or another) it would be easy to say "some sort of Gith holy grail has been sighted near Daunton" and/or "The prophesy suggests that there is some secret hidden in the Great Library that could tip the conflict".</p><p></p><p>Stuff like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graf, post: 4469104, member: 3087"] Gith are interesting. [LIST] [*]They are flavorful and interesting; they have a lot of what WotC calls "traction" [*]They generally fit... poorly in game settings. [LIST] [*]You can't play them in FR, in a way that really connects well with the setting. [*]They work good in PS (but so does everything) [*]They were extensively reworked in Spelljammer and DS. [*]Arguably the Kalashar in Eberron are actually restructured Gith except they're not ugly (racial war, human projenitors, escaping to another plane to live a monastic lifestyle oriented around psionic development). [LIST] [*]Naturally this precludes gith really working well. (I had a whole sub plot planned for s@s eberron game where my dwarf thought that our gith was actually a "[COLOR=DarkOrange]really ugly human[/COLOR]" and tried to get the clerics to "[COLOR=DarkOrange]cure whatever curse the lad's under[/COLOR]") [/LIST] [/LIST] [/LIST] Also, in 3.x they were LA+ so.... Anyway it was usually messy. Githzerzai +6 to dex was usually were leveraged to compensate producing some nasty characters (i.e. weapon finesse + dex + magic items to push up dex to the mid-high 20s... I don't want to call it cheesy but it's very focused and your class choices are limited too.) So it's a great race that people couldn't usually play. Our setting is unusual in that it has Gith in a way that is more pure than most settings but has them fairly tightly integrated (Dunamin did a great job threading the needle on this if I do say so myself). It seems natural to me OOC. IC.... Given that they're raiders and warriors and engaged in a holy crusade (in one way or another) it would be easy to say "some sort of Gith holy grail has been sighted near Daunton" and/or "The prophesy suggests that there is some secret hidden in the Great Library that could tip the conflict". Stuff like that. [/QUOTE]
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