Daily Art Preview

[MortalPlague]

I absolutely love the style of the githzerai and githyanki pictures. I have to side with Kamikaze Midget in that they wouldn't be that different physically after a mere thousand years of seperation or so. The differences would mainly be cultural.

Also, I love the way the pictures seem to be two halves of the same confrontation. This kind of art makes me want to bring githyanki and githzerai into my upcoming game.

 

[Snarls-at-Fleas]

It started with Eberron, where they added a few new types of Rakshasas. In the ECS, they added the Zakya Rakshasa. Then, in the MM3, they added the Ak'Chazar and the Naztharune (White Tiger and Black Panther, respectively).

--G

It really started with Hindu fairy tales where rakshasas could have any kind of animal heads. Or even look like this

It is Ravana, King of the Rakshsas

 

[Cirex]

I like the Githyanki picture but...each time we see a female Githyanki, it's the same Githgirl.

Maybe they just cloned her.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I like the Githyanki picture but...each time we see a female Githyanki, it's the same Githgirl.

Maybe they just cloned her.

It's like with the Smurfs. There is only one female each generation or so.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Hmm... I wish they had gone with a more exotic style of garb for the Githyanki to really emphasize their alien/planar nature. And further, each new edition seems to want to make them more and more human.

You mean more like this?

I rather keep the Komarck Gith!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Plane Sailing]

You mean more like this?

I rather keep the Komarck Gith!

Cheers, LT.

Me too, every time.

Cheers

 

[OakwoodDM]

I'd rather Komarck had used different models for the Githzerai and Githyanki. As it is, it looks like it's the same three people in 2 different poss, and one set has an Astral tan. I have nothing against artists using models, but when it's 2 similar races, please, use different models!

 

[Leatherhead]

I wonder why they kept the gith races separate in 4th edition, everyone I know constantly confuses the two.

 

[Shroomy]

I like the fact that while the githzerai and githyanki are nearly identical in appearance, the githyanki feature a very haughty sneer while the githzerai look so serious.

 

[Wormwood]

Well got to say if they keep up this level of art, the MM is going to be really, really pretty to look at.

Exactly. The art is head and shoulders above the 3e MM (so far)