Anyone ever play a Githyanki or a Quickling?

[Sejs]

Gith - yep.

Quickling - dear sweet jesus, no. I can't think of a DM I've ever met that would let someone play one of those, and rightly so.


No, there is no love for Quicklings. Just hatred. Long-burning, ages old hatred. Down with quicklings, I say.

 

[jmucchiello]

Our main game has a githzerai.

In 2e I once played a Brownie with a girdle of Storm Giant strength. Oh, the joys of busting open doors from 2 feet off the ground. The half-ogre fighter was always confused as to how the little guy did it.

 

[rounser]

Quickling - dear sweet jesus, no. I can't think of a DM I've ever met that would let someone play one of those, and rightly so.

Permanent invisibility, permanent haste, 240 ft. movement rate, 27 dexterity...wonder what the level adjustment would be on that?

Would make one nifty little monk, though (well, a nifty little anything really, but martial arts at breakneck speed seems most appealing)...speedy gonzalezing around the battlefield, kicking in shins and breaking ankles...

 

[Tuzenbach]

Permanent invisibility, permanent haste, 240 ft. movement rate, 27 dexterity...wonder what the level adjustment would be on that?

Would make one nifty little monk, though (well, a nifty little anything really, but martial arts at breakneck speed seems most appealing)...speedy gonzalezing around the battlefield, kicking in shins and breaking ankles...

Ah, but there's a downside to their speed. They'd probably be the first ones to set off traps simply by standing next to them! Plus, they only live to the age of 12 or so.

In truth, I didn't know they had permanent invisibility and thought their speed was a mere 96"! You see, I'm still going off of 1E stats. Which 3E book do they appear in?

 

[Sejs]

thought their speed was a mere 96"! You see, I'm still going off of 1E stats.

*nod* got to remember, that base speed of 96" was back in the day when the human base speed was 12", though. 96/12=8, 8*30=240 base.

 

[Wombat]

I have two quicklings in my current campaign...

...but they are faen

 

[Dragon-Slayer]

Githyanki yes, they have been PCs in campaigns I have run since the Fiend Folio. Dark Horse ( a miniatures company in southern Idaho) made a line of figures back then called unholy warriors that looked just like the githyanki that were excellent for using as a PC figure back then. They are still prevalent in my homebrew and an optional race. The Incursion campaign in the Dragon/Dungeon issues was a godsend. Amazing material and history for a unique race.

 

[Krieg]

Permanent invisibility, permanent haste, 240 ft. movement rate, 27 dexterity...wonder what the level adjustment would be on that?

Would make one nifty little monk, though (well, a nifty little anything really, but martial arts at breakneck speed seems most appealing)...speedy gonzalezing around the battlefield, kicking in shins and breaking ankles...

Don't let George Lucas hear this...he's likely to get unwholesome ideas for Yoda.

Oh wait...

 

[Vocenoctum]

I had a quickling rogue in a 1-2e game, it was quite fun. No one realized he was a quickling for a little while, figured he was a halfling rogue (our "Scout"). It came out when we came to a line of arrow-slits and decided we'd run past them.
"Okay, I'm moving... 36" woohoo!"
"Okay, I'm moving... 890.. I think"

He wasn't a very good scout, since he was too light and too short to set off most of the traps, and couldn't be bothered to actually look for them.

I've also had a githzerai or three sometime through the years. Always prefered them over Githyanki (though a buddy of mine always prefered the Githyanki). They don't really stand out as much as the quickling did though, they're just too "normal".

I don't remember the Quicklings having invisibility though, when were they brought into 3e?

 

[Vocenoctum]

Permanent invisibility, permanent haste, 240 ft. movement rate, 27 dexterity...wonder what the level adjustment would be on that?

They were originally triple hasted. (double double double for X8 speed, 1/8 lifespan.)