Do Githzerai lay eggs?

[John Cooper]

I'll point out that pegasi and hippogriffs lay eggs, too, while the part of them that bears young and give birth is completely equine.

Likewise with owlbears laying eggs. The "egg-laying" end of an owlbear is the "bear" end.

 

[diaglo]

why not egg-laying human-like people?

they do.

kobolds.

or aarackora

 

[Garnfellow]

Not in my campaign. Neither do githyanki. They are a species arisen from humans, per the 1e FF.

Mine too. Where the heck did this idea come from?

 

[diaglo]

Mine too. Where the heck did this idea come from?

the smoke that someone was blowing up their own butt.


during the 2ed planescape era iirc

 

[kilamanjaro]

If you're willing to accept that illithids could modify humans into egg layers, and if you play D&D you should be able to accept this, it makes some sense that they would. I imagine pregnant slaves would be less productive, especially if the 'yanki were a warrior slave caste.

 

[WizarDru]

We had to tackle this for "Incursion" a few years back. Apparently, githyanki _are_ egg layers, but I can't vouch for the pedigree of the original source. All I know is that I can't ever imagine introducing githyanki eggs in any of my campaigns. Sometimes, a new spin on a monster doesn't "take" for me, and this would be one such case.

Well, I didn't introduce the idea into my game until I used the Incursion Event (still a high point in the game, btw, thanks for that). My general feeling is that the Gith DO have eggs, but they are not eggs in the true biological sense, but are actually just incubators...external wombs, essentially, in which the placentas are implanted. Put another way, since the Githyanki spend most of their time on the Astral and are a warrior race who can't spare breeding females, the entire race is (or rather was until Vlaakith was slain) a race of test-tube babies. The test-tubes just happened to be enchanted eggs kept in secret creches about the Prime. The reason for them being eggs? They learned the technique (and possibly acquired some of the resources) from the red dragons.

Of course, since my party slew the Lich-Queen in "Lich Queen's Beloved", things have spiraled out of control for the Githyanki in my game. But that's another story.

 

[Gez]

they do.

kobolds.

or aarackora

Birds and lizards are not primates.

Dwarves, elves, gnomes, halflings, even orcs and goblins, are human-like.

Kobolds and aaracokra aren't.

 

[diaglo]

Birds and lizards are not primates.

oh, you meant primate like.

i thought you meant intelligent bipeds.

i think White Dwarf had a platypus man.

 

[Voadam]

i think White Dwarf had a platypus man.

Sounds like a super hero from the Tick universe.

 

[Darkness]

Many of those exist for metagame reasons, to aid the DM in screwing over her players.

Fixed for greater precision.

Exactly - that's why I don't like them. It'd feel heavy-handed to me if I used them, so they're just a waste of space for me. YMMV.