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<blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 2471168" data-attributes="member: 9249">Base rules for the race state they can't use non-implanted weapons because their bottom hands are essentially scalpel-like manipulators-- like some Star Wars droids. That's as of Complete Spacefarer's Handbook; I don't think the Ecology article mentioned any use of hands.&nbsp;Eventually. I'm going to pattern them off the Graft Flesh feat, with a list of Xixchil Grafts. May put together a Xixchil PrC that allows them to use other kinds of grafts, including race-exclusive grafts, and gives them Artificer-like bonuses to Graft Flesh and Scribe Tattoo.&nbsp;It's too bad Xixchil aren't considered attached to Planesape, or I'd use them for Galactic Planescape; they'd really shine with access to bioengineering and cybernetics.&nbsp;&nbsp;I might include that as one of their grafts.&nbsp;Yeah, I've been wrestling with that one-- I just wasn't sure whether to allow Dwarves and Gnomes to get their giant-fighting bonuses against them. In the end, since I compared Giff to d20 Future's Weren, I went with Giant.&nbsp;Now that you mention it, though... both species would probably be better off as Monstrous Humanoids.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viktyr Gehrig, post: 2471168, member: 9249"] Base rules for the race state they can't use non-implanted weapons because their bottom hands are essentially scalpel-like manipulators-- like some [i]Star Wars[i] droids. That's as of [i]Complete Spacefarer's Handbook[/i]; I don't think the Ecology article mentioned any use of hands. Eventually. I'm going to pattern them off the Graft Flesh feat, with a list of Xixchil Grafts. May put together a Xixchil PrC that allows them to use other kinds of grafts, including race-exclusive grafts, and gives them Artificer-like bonuses to Graft Flesh and Scribe Tattoo. It's too bad Xixchil aren't considered attached to [i]Planesape[/i], or I'd use them for [i]Galactic Planescape[/i]; they'd really shine with access to bioengineering and cybernetics. I might include that as one of their grafts. Yeah, I've been wrestling with that one-- I just wasn't sure whether to allow Dwarves and Gnomes to get their giant-fighting bonuses against them. In the end, since I compared Giff to [i]d20 Future[/i]'s Weren, I went with Giant. Now that you mention it, though... both species would probably be better off as Monstrous Humanoids.[/i][/i] [/QUOTE]

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