Spelljammer Meet The Giff--Spelljammer's Space Pirate Hippos!

The Giff, a race of "gunslinging hippo-like pirates" will be appearing in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, and D&D Beyond has a sneak preview of them.

Sneak Peek: Meet the Giff, a Race of Gunslinging Hippo-Like Pirates

What do you get when you cross a hippo with a space pirate? The giff! The playable race comes to us from Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. Here's a prev...

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[Weiley31]

I'm glad the Giff kept their Hippo Strength AND even got something for love of firearms.

 

[CleverNickName]

apart from the one that doesn't exist, yes.

It's on pages 9-23 of "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything." The Artillerist subclass or the Battle Master subclass are both very much the "gun artificers" that you mentioned. For a little extra ballistic goodness, there's a few good feats in there that you can choose as well (I recommend the Gunner feat and/or the Piercer feat, both on page 80).

 

[Vaalingrade]

My god yes.

I have waited twenty years for this after just having missed Spelljammer in my gaming career.

 

[WarDriveWorley]

as an aside, we now know the spelljammer book is 100% gonna have guns. WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE FOR NOT HAVING A GUN ARTIFICER NOW, WIZARDS?

Now they need to introduce a gunslinging artificer with spelljammer flavor

 

[W'rkncacnter]

It's on pages 9-23 of "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything." The Artillerist subclass or the Battle Master subclass are both very much the "gun artificers" that you mentioned. For a little extra ballistic goodness, there's a few good feats in there that you can choose as well (I recommend the Gunner feat and/or the Piercer feat, both on page 80).

artillerist and battle *smith are very much not gun artificers, ESPECIALLY with spelljammer getting straight up guns. the artillerist is a wandslinger with portable not-quite-siege-until-level-15 weapons and the battle smith is a pet subclass. you can fit guns INTO them (well, the battle smith anyway - ironically enough i don't think they'd work very well with the artillerist since it's very eldritch cannon/spell heavy), but they are not themselves gun artificers.
edit: an example of a gun artificer would be the gunsmith from this unearthed arcana. it is a subclass about gun. gun artificer.

Now they need to introduce a gunslinging artificer with spelljammer flavor

everybody gangster til the artificer swings around the ship using its gravity plane and blasts your cap off with extra attack

 

[J.Quondam]

Is Giff pronounced like "gif" or "gif"?

 

[CleverNickName]

artillerist and battle *smith are very much not gun artificers. the artillerist is a wandslinger with portable not-quite-siege weapons and the battle smith is a pet subclass. you can fit guns INTO them (well, the battle smith anyway - ironically enough i don't think they'd work very well with the artillerist since it's very eldritch cannon/spell heavy), but they are not themselves gun artificers.

Well it sounds like your mind is made up. I'll stop trying to help.

 

[Weiley31]

Is Giff pronounced like "gif" or "gif"?

THEM'S A FIGHTIN WORDS!

Assumes Fighting Irish Stance

 

[Jer]

Is Giff pronounced like "gif" or "gif"?

I watched the D&D Giff video last night and they discussed whether it was pronounced with a soft or hard g and I've got to be honest - never in my life did I look at the word Giff and think it was pronounced like the peanut butter. But apparently people do!

 

[Scribe]

What's with 5e's obsession with God's and deities being the alpha and omega of everything?

Considering how little relevance they have, its kind of weird at this stage of the edition...