Dragonborn vs. Githzerai: RM:UT Round 1

[I'm A Banana]

Really, all you need to know about this is the Rule of Horrible Portmanteau. "Born from a Dragon." Let that mental image sink in for a bit. Perhaps while watching David Attenborough talk about the miracle of sea turtle egg laying. CLOACA EVERYWHERE!

Dragonbored.

Dragonboned.

Dragonbewbs.

Githzerai are psychic rebels with a philosophical justification to run all over the planes and kick your face in. They live in a plane of chaos and just think it into submission. The own you entirely with bare fleshy fists, they don't need the claws or spikes or teeth or tentacle-hair or random piercings or mock-savagery that Dragonbutts have. They don't need to act all cool. They are badass like Jesus. Tripping in the desert to kick the butt of Satan. In comparison, the dragingballs are basically televangelists, handing out $1.75 miracles.

"Uuuuur, I'm a dragonbuddy, I am tuff and I will beat ur butts rawr lol!"

Githzerai doesn't need a come back for that. Githzerai just looks at the spikey bad-breath man, and maybe it strikes them how much less ridiculous a Slaad is by comparison, and they feel a little sorry for it. It's gotta be rough being around essentially because a marketing team decided people should be able to play dragons instead of kill them and take their stuff. You don't fit in. You nick your (horrible) name from some unrelated earlier edition critter (couldn't choose a better one, eh?), you yoink your fluff from every "retainer to a fallen empire" cliche that's come before, and you present yourself like you're something new.

You're nothing but a thirteen year old boy's muscle power fantasy.

Now the 'zerai, suave, stoic, with the grace and the moves and the knowledge to brush past you gently and leave you writhing on the floor in agony....that is power you don't have to scream about from a TV screen. That is power you don't need to show off. That's the only real power there is.

Super Mario Dragonbros can't even keep an empire together. The Githzerai were a step ahead of them in that, too. See, they took down an empire. Of Mind Flayers. Let that sink in. Try not to void your cloaca when you think about the kind of cojones it takes to look at something that eats your brains in the face and punch it to death.

Dragonborkborkbork. Pheh. I'd rather play a kobold.

 

[Piratecat]

CLOACA EVERYWHERE!

"Cloaca of protection" is an awesome, awesome pun. Can you make that with a githzerai? No, you can not.

Go Team Dragonborn!

 

[ProfessorCirno]

*Know* that a mind divided divides the man. The will and the hand must be as one. In *knowing* the self, one becomes strong.

*Know* that if you *know* a course of action to be true in your heart, do not betray it because the path leads to hardship. *Know* that without suffering, the Rising would have never been, and the People would never have come to *know* themselves.

*Know* that there is nothing in all the Worlds that can stand against unity. When all *know* a single purpose, when all hands are guided by one will, and all act with the same intent, the Planes themselves may be moved.

A divided mind is one that does not *know* itself. When it is divided, it cleaves the body in two. When one has a single purpose, the body is strengthened. In *knowing* the self, grow strong.





You're pretty much the most terrible person ever if you think Dragonborn should win this

 

[I'm A Banana]

"Cloaca of protection" is an awesome, awesome pun. Can you make that with a githzerai? No, you can not.

There are some puns we were not meant to make!

Every time I hear the word "dragonborn," I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAiTOuSyJsQ

And now you will too.

Besides, you can quote kung fu movies with the githzerai. With the dragonborn, I get more of a "LEEROY JENKINS!!!" kind of feel.

 

[Wormwood]

The Fiend Folio grognard in me would normally vote Gith* . . .

BUT, watching the Dragonborn Paladin in my group for the last year has made me *really* love that race.

The next time I make a new character, a Dragonborn is at the top of my list. Given the plethora of 4e race choices, that says a lot.

 

[Wormwood]

With the dragonborn, I get more of a "LEEROY JENKINS!!!" kind of feel.

Okay, that's hilarious.

The aforementioned Dragonborn paladin in my group has a habit of screaming his name during combat. No session is complete without the player yelling "TAAAAARN!"

(it's much more fun than it sounds)

 

[Mercule]

Okay, that's hilarious.

The aforementioned Dragonborn paladin in my group has a habit of screaming his name during combat. No session is complete without the player yelling "TAAAAARN!"

(it's much more fun than it sounds)

My wife's dragonborn is "Daar". I can't help myself. Whenever I call her name for a combat round, etc., I have to say it like Goofy saying, "dur".

 

[Relique du Madde]

Every time I hear the word "dragonborn," I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAiTOuSyJsQ

WARNING: Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Now I must scrub eyes with bleach...

Spoiler

Stupid chickens must die a horrible death. Must use a ritual to summon Colonel Sanders

 

[Lanefan]

This is a vote for the best PC race, and the choice is monster vs. monster? Yuck.

So I'll vote for the Gith just to try and help get rid of these ridiculous Dragonborn thingies, and then hope the Gith get squashed in round 2.

Lan-"I'm really enjoying El Mahdi's little play-by-plays in these polls"-efan

 

[TerraDave]

After saying it in some other threads... THIS is a close one.

And while I also have dragonborn paladin in the group...I remain indifferent about the result.