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[heirodule]

I want my githyanki to have BURSITIS, dangit.

disturbing picture of bursitis:
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[Goobermunch]

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

There you go, bringing facts into a discussion.

My point is that within the context of D&D, Rakshasas traditionally have been depicted as orange and black tiger men with reversed hands. The MM3 was, afaik, the first time they were depicted in an official D&D source as being other than orange and black tiger men. That said, I'm totally using that picture in my next Eberron game as the image for a Rakshasa Raja.

--G

 

[A'koss]

You mean more like this?

I rather keep the Komarck Gith!

Bah. They're too "pretty" now IMO. I'd prefer they were something closer to the original gaunt, fang-toothed originals. And as it was rightly pointed out, I also think they're now too close now to the Githzerai.

 

[hong]

There you go, bringing facts into a discussion.

My point is that within the context of D&D, Rakshasas traditionally have been depicted as orange and black tiger men with reversed hands. The MM3 was, afaik, the first time they were depicted in an official D&D source as being other

I say, the fewer 25-year-old D&D anachronisms that make no sense to anyone who hasn't been playing for at least that long, the better.

 

[med stud]

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

In the 2nd edition MM, rakshasas were described as people with backward hands and animal heads, most often ape- or tigerheads.

 

[Klaus]

Hang on a tick.

Doesn't the Githzerai on the left:

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look almost identical to the Githyanki on the right?

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Same beard, same features, just a bit different tatoos.

Look again. Bald-zerai has a two-pointed goatee and a soul patch. Bald-yanki has a four-pointed goatee.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

The new art for the githyanki is excellent. I think I prefer them with the bestial, ape-like features from past editions though. These... well, they look like elves.

 

[frankthedm]

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!

Agreed. Sadly many artists trap themselves into only drawing a few different faces.

I do like the Githyankee's armor. Got that swirling astral sea feeling to it.

I want my githyanki to have BURSITIS, dangit.

Ah, thats what those hanging flesh sacks on them were called.

 

[xechnao]

They all still look like the photos of hot trendy apparel advertisements.

 

[Lackhand]

1) our notions of trendy diverge

2) Actually, trendy advertisements look like these. No, seriously! Dramatic lighting, dramatic posing, a sense of purpose... which deserves that more, the scions of Gith or the clothes-horses of high street?