D&D 5E (2014) Preview: Thri-Kreen

[MarkB]

My suggestion would be to allow the armed Thri-Keen to include its Bite attack in its Multiattack routine, along with the two weapon attacks. I'd also allow it to use any two weapon attacks - either two gythka, two chatkchas, or one of each.

 

[GX.Sigma]

My suggestion would be to allow the armed Thri-Keen to include its Bite attack in its Multiattack routine, along with the two weapon attacks. I'd also allow it to use any two weapon attacks - either two gythka, two chatkchas, or one of each.

That's actually a really elegant solution.

Multiattack: The thri-kreen attacks up to three times: once with its bite, then once with its claws or twice with a gythka or chatkcha.

 

[Uder]

I know it's been a while since they changed them, but I really don't like thri-kreen as bipeds.

 

[DammitVictor]

I know it's been a while since they changed them, but I really don't like thri-kreen as bipeds.

They were always bipeds, just they used to have an extended abdominal section. The quadrupeds were like... the thri-kreen version of semi-sentient apes.

 

[Kensboro]

Is the the official D&D version of an Phraint (from Arduin Grimoire)?

 

[Torg Smith]

Is the the official D&D version of an Phraint (from Arduin Grimoire)?

I think making humanoids out of different types of animals is quite common in a lot of fiction throughout history.

 

[Steely Dan]

Is the the official D&D version of an Phraint (from Arduin Grimoire)?

Best, critical tables, ever: "Buttocks torn of, SHOCK, fall.".

 

[the Jester]

Is the the official D&D version of an Phraint (from Arduin Grimoire)?

Yeah, pretty much. The original 1e version showed the phraint influence the most of any thri-kreen version IIRC.

 

[Savage Wombat]

In my college D&D club there were so many grey elf PCs that the DMs all decided that Thri-Kreen had an abiding racial hatred for them. I saw a grey elf player brutally murdered by the wandering monster table - a thri-kreen just hopped by one day, perforated the character and hopped away.

 

[dream66_]

In my college D&D club there were so many grey elf PCs that the DMs all decided that Thri-Kreen had an abiding racial hatred for them. I saw a grey elf player brutally murdered by the wandering monster table - a thri-kreen just hopped by one day, perforated the character and hopped away.

You're DM may have been exposed to Dark Sun, it's not hatred though...

Elves are delicious.