D&D 5E Wandering Monsters: Heirs of Gith

[Savage Wombat]

Dak'kon's history may be brought into question - but consider this:

Just because it wasn't true, does that really mean it wasn't true? Sounds pretty githzerai to me.

 

[Ryltar]

I agree with that it does not really matter whether the PI's 'made-up' history was true or not. To consider true the facts believed by most is one of the core Planescape concepts. Also, it would simply be a shame to let such a vast amount of cool lore go to waste .

 

[the Jester]

Huh. This also seems to apply to me. I could revise my post with new monsters though, as there are MANY they have not (and will continue not to have) looked at.

I think they've looked at a fair spread of stuff so far and suspect that they will continue to do so, but of course there will be plenty of things they won't have time to touch on.

There are, after all, literally thousands of monsters in D&D, quite a few of which have only ever appeared once.

I'm still going to say there is no sense to discuss things that have not changed (again, primarily 4e, but also sometimes in 3e). They'll just reprint the same thing that has been in print for the last 30 years and call it a day. Bully.

Seems likely, but you never know; and the suggestion that the Minotaur might be the only one in a given campaign (for instance) is a significant change from the way mythological monsters have always been depicted in D&D.

 

[gyor]

It looks like making Gith into a race won the poll with Githzeri and Githyanki subraces. It had 48 percent support almost half.

 

[jadrax]

default alignment of the githzerai = Lawful Neutral wins with a pretty substantial 67.0%
Restricting Silver Swords to only Githyanki wins with 75.7%.

and 62.5% like apostrophes.

 

[Savage Wombat]

"Well, we could make silver swords - if we wanted to. It's not hard. We just know that no flashy blade is as powerful as mastery over the body itself. That's why. Yeah."

 

[steeldragons]

I guess I missed it in the article...but 'splain for me again why/how it is an entirereproducing race of Lawful Neutral beings not only came to live in, but built an entire civilization and permanent habitations within the roiling plane of ever-changing Chaos? Is that part of the fluff necessary, let alone make sense, for some reason I'm missing...the Astral Plane isn't big enough for both Gith's?

 

[Klaus]

I guess I missed it in the article...but 'splain for me again why/how it is an entirereproducing race of Lawful Neutral beings not only came to live in, but built an entire civilization and permanent habitations within the roiling plane of ever-changing Chaos? Is that part of the fluff necessary, let alone make sense, for some reason I'm missing...the Astral Plane isn't big enough for both Gith's?

Clearly, not big enough for boths Giths.

As for why Limbo: it's similar to a serene master that chooses to meditate underneath a roaring waterfall. If he can meditate there, ignoring the noise and pressure of the water, he can meditate anywhere.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

It seems almost every poll conducted in all of these columns are just reinforcements of what was written in the article before it. Which is why I don't really care for a lot of the results, since the majority tends to blindly follow the written article, or the 3e version over anything else. And while I like 3e over all the other editions, I don't always feel it had the best story on many monsters in many cases. Sometimes it's the 2e or 1e version, where I got my start in the game with 2e. And sometimes I prefer the 4e version, despite I often have a distaste of it needlessly changing things in the past. Which makes me wonder how often do they listen to the disapproval of something, despite it's always a minority that votes against something suggested in the article.

Now while I can live with the LN default alignment despite the fact I think it's wrong and it should be any neutral, I'm disappointed in it. And I seem to remember there were many things in the past Minotaur article that had the majority winning that I didn't like. I really do hope they take into consideration that something that gets 25% or more despite losing should also be given attention.

 

[steeldragons]

Clearly, not big enough for boths Giths.

Becuuuuuuuz?

As for why Limbo: it's similar to a serene master that chooses to meditate underneath a roaring waterfall. If he can meditate there, ignoring the noise and pressure of the water, he can meditate anywhere.

Is there...ya know, ANYthing[?], Claudio, that WotC does that you find "wrong/troubling"?