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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8607266" data-attributes="member: 20323">Thanks [USER=2629]@jgsugden[/USER] ! It's great to hear your experience using githyanki, as this will be my first time using them in anything more than a cameo role.Sounds like you kept var'ith'n as more of a &quot;behind the scenes&quot; type, rather than an active adversary the PCs would engage with? That was my initial instinct, but maybe I was trying to artificially make them a &quot;threat&quot; in a stat block sense when that's not really their intended role.[USER=7024098]@Redwizard007[/USER] Here's that senja'si (seer) stat block I put together. I wanted these guys to feel like a spooky oracle that can use fear as a weapon &amp; even bring their victims to the Astral / dreamscape (as a counterpoint to the githzerai who bring a portion of Limbo with them in their adamantine citadels). Imagining githyanki society as being rife with astrology/fortune-telling since the Astral is this timeless space, with the senja'si being something like an elite caste, something like the Bene Gesserit of Dune. I got some great feedback on the DM Academy Discord, so it's gone through a couple design passes, but no playtesting yet. [MEDIA=imgur]8wdJ5OW[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 8607266, member: 20323"] Thanks [USER=2629]@jgsugden[/USER] ! It's great to hear your experience using githyanki, as this will be my first time using them in anything more than a cameo role. Sounds like you kept var'ith'n as more of a "behind the scenes" type, rather than an active adversary the PCs would engage with? That was my initial instinct, but maybe I was trying to artificially make them a "threat" in a stat block sense when that's not really their intended role. [USER=7024098]@Redwizard007[/USER] Here's that senja'si (seer) stat block I put together. I wanted these guys to feel like a spooky oracle that can use fear as a weapon & even bring their victims to the Astral / dreamscape (as a counterpoint to the githzerai who bring a portion of Limbo with them in their adamantine citadels). Imagining githyanki society as being rife with astrology/fortune-telling since the Astral is this timeless space, with the senja'si being something like an elite caste, something like the Bene Gesserit of [I]Dune. [/I]I got some great feedback on the DM Academy Discord, so it's gone through a couple design passes, but no playtesting yet. [MEDIA=imgur]8wdJ5OW[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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