The Children of Gith

[Erekose]

Thanks, Erekose!

No problem!

 

[Erekose]

You might also want to look at the old 2nd ed series of modules "the mind flayer adventure trilogy: A Darkness Gathering, Masters of Eternal Night, and Dawn of the Overmind". The last one in that involves the PCs travelling to Penumbra where the forerunners of the Gith race still live. There's not a lot of info on the Gith races but some.

I would also suggest the planewalker website and particulalry their section on githyanki, githzerai, etc
http://www.planewalker.com/rrakkma/index.php

Planewalker has a subsection called Rrakkmaa: Legacy of Zerthimon.

Here's the forum that goes with it.

Very helpful links - thank you!

 

[xnosipjpqmhd]

Hey, Erekose! Nice thread. I'm interested in this topic as well, since one of the PCs in my last campaign was a half-gith though he didn't discover this until halfway through the campaign.

It's too long of a story to recount here, but here's the short version if you're interested. A great half-gith leader from long ago (which happened to be Kelanen) slew the illithid starking and freed the githzerai. A great deal of the starking's power came from a very potent silver sword. The gith couldn't destroy it, so they hid it in a tower on Oerth, and only half-gith could successfully retrieve it. To that end, the "visitors" (the illithid) had instituted a covert breeding program. They would implant psionic worms in the half-gith childrens' heads, astrally abduct them from their homes on a regular basis, and leave them with recurring dreams of the silver sword. The PCs met other half-gith who were either driven mad by this treatment or refused to recover the sword for the visitors and were subsequently punished. Eventually the PC retrieved the sword for the visitors, which will have grave repercussions for his mother's people in the next campaign...

 

[Voadam]

Original info is 1e Fiend Folio.

I would expect the 2e Planescape Astral book to have some info on them. Gith showed up as a race in Dark Sun, Pirates of Gith are a race in Spelljammer (they can make elven living ships go extraplanar). and so 2e Monstrous compendiums should have some stuff on them as well.

 

[Voadam]

I think there is a little info in the 1e Manual of Planes as well.

 

[johnnype]

the only other source of information that you might be interested in is the recently published Complete Psionics from WotC. It doesn't really have any background information but it does provide additional rules to make githyanki and githzerai characters using racial levels instead of level adjustments.

 

[Erekose]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

the only other source of information that you might be interested in is the recently published Complete Psionics from WotC. It doesn't really have any background information but it does provide additional rules to make githyanki and githzerai characters using racial levels instead of level adjustments.

This is really interesting - once the Gith have been introduced in the adventures (as mentioned in my first post) I have thouight about making the Githzerai a race available for players (and in fact the only race where psionic ability for player characters will be allowed - the Gith in my campaign will have no access to arcane magic as a trade-off). The problem I was facing was making the race playable with a LA+2. If Complete Psionics solves this problem with racial levels then that's great!