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Ww would use D&D 3rd ed. I have core books, Psionics Handbook, and Lords of Madness. I've been a fan of Planescape since the 2nd ed. box set, and a fan of the Githyanki since 1st ed. Fiend Folio!

Yes, Play-by-post. I can post a couple times per week. I'm thinking an ECL of 8-9. Focus will be on githyanki after the Lich Queen's fall, but playing other gith races caught up in the action is OK too. Post Faction War Sigil, in the "Githyanki Ghetto" of Git'raban. As for which power blocs (a better term, maybe, so as not to confuse them with the planar factions) the characters support, that's entirely up to the players. Alignment is up to players too, except for one stipulation - No Good Guys. Alignments may be neutral or evil (NE is best!), and except for githzerai should shy away from chaotic.

Cool!

PM me characters, I will look them over, tweek if neccissary. ECL 9 (or so, I'm flexible if you want to do something cool, like a half-dragon)

Gear will be as such:
--Each Githyanki starts off with ornate magical +3 splint mail and a magical blade (or blades) not to exceed +3 total enchantments. Additional gear; fighters and Psi-Warriors get another +1 enchantment on a secondary blade, Sorcerers, Rogues, and Psions get one miscellaneous magic item. Multi-class characters get one or the other. This is in addition to basic gear and wealth not to exceed 10,000 gold. I know this is low for a 9th level PC, but you have magic weapons already taken care of, and nobody's going to need a warhorse. I figure the rest of the characters' wealth is tied up in their apartment in Git'raban.
--Githzerai start with a blade or blades of up to +3 total as well, and two misc. magic items.
--Gith pirates or Athasian gith start off with a single +1 blade and 3 magic items.

Also, one thing that always nagged me, and a solution. One of the most comman magic items in Sigil has to be an amulet with a permanant TOUNGES spell. That way, language is not a barrier. Assume every character has one, whether she wears it or not (which she might not, if carrying other magic).

Like you gave me before is fine, never heard of Myth Weavers, actually.

Occult slayer? Uh, sure I guess. I don't have Complete Warrior, you'll have to give me the run-down on occult slayers. Prestige classes are fine, so long as they make sense in context. For instance: A githyanki knight would be multi-classed warrior or even Psi-warrior with blackguard levels. A Gish would be muticlassed warrior & sorcerer. Githyanki don't have monks like githzerai do, and neither race traditionaly has priests.

Az, I'm sorry but I'll have to say no to a half-fiend, but a resounding yes to a half-(red) dragon. A half-dragon can even have priest (of Tiamat) levels, or remain a warrior or Psi-warrior.

Oh, and Weishan, a silver sword is a +3 weapon.

I don't think that's too sneaky, Wei. Consider making him a gith from Athas (are you familiar with Dark Sun?), or if githyanki pehaps an infiltrator. Some githyanki could pass for githzerai to act as spies, and vice-versa.

Az, your ideas for modifying a 'Yanki samurai sound great to me.

Wei, substitutions are fine, and magic is so comman in Sigil, I really can't keep you from buying magic items, which is why the 10K gp limit (while normally lvl 9 wealth is 30K +) . I'll have final say, of course, but I'm open to anything reasonable and in-character. Playing a githzerai in a githyanki party might really prove to be interesting. I figure the 'zerai population in Git'raban are fairly reviled by their fellows, as well as by most githyanki. Even so, githyanki residing there are mostly outcasts too, so the 'zerai are tolerated, even relied upon for certain things. There is probably a large and active cadre' of The Reconciliation in Git'raban, having been an outcast group for a long time.

Just a run-down on Dark Sun (my second-favorite setting). Athas is a desert world, where reckless use of magic has turned large tracts of the planet into wastelands. Athasan gith are perhaps the decendants of the survivors of a failed incursion. They lead a barbaric life, gathering in tribes and hordes to raid other tribes and settlements. They remain psionic, and since psionics are comman on Athas, are often as powerful and well trained mind-warriors as any other gith race (if not more so, for Athas hardens and tempers those who survive the harsh environment). In Git'raban there are many Athasan gith who taken over in an area now known as "The Tribes". They are mostly street-thugs and portal-raiders, but a few who have been born and raised in Sigil are a bit more civilized than their clan-mates.

A few more background notes.

Githyanki Warrior Mindset.

The githyanki live under martial law. Each githyanki warrior sees herself as permanantly on campaign. Their leaders are military leaders. Their homes are fortresses. Their leaders don't have thrones or offices, they have swords.

To a githyanki, another thinking being is either an ally or an enemy. Githyanki don't take prisoners for the same reason they don't take slaves. Every thinking being has one basic right, to choose ones enemies. One who offers alliance to a swinging blade is all the sooner slain, so the only way to have any surity in the multiverse is to attack, to choose to be an enemy to whomwver you are facing. This is just one of the pillars of githyanki racial agression.

Githyanki divide 'allies' and 'enemies' into three categories each.

The highest form of alliance is found among "Battle-Brothers". A githyanki forms the closest bond with her clutch-mates. They represent a cohort in a single warband who train and fight together their entire lives. A single githyanki may have dozens of battle brothers, while other githyanki might never have any friends this close. The second level of alliance are "Fellow Warriors". This consists of githyanki from other warbands and close allies like dragons. Rarely, a githyanki may have such respect for a member of another race as to consider them a "Fellow Warrior" but that kind of thinking is highly discouraged by the dogmas of the Queen. The third level of ally are "Potential Enemies". These are allies that one watches, like the human nation that you conquored and are now fighting for the gith. Githzerai on an active Rrakkma are afforded this status temporarily.

Similarly, there are three levels of enemies. First are "Potential Allies". Non-alligned gith races fall into this category, as do humanoid races that are being fought to conquor and subborn them to the githyanki agenda (and turn them from potential allies to potential enemies, which even many githyanki admit is a marginally better state of affairs). Interestingly, Githyanki outcasts, called Emissaries, fall into this category as well. It is the resposibility of the warband to which a traitor belonged to train assassins to eliminate her, but other warbands usually ignore Emissaries. The second level of enemy are "Blood Foes". Enemies that deserve naught but death, like the githzerai, fall into this category (as do 90% of the rest of the multiverse in many githyankis' minds.) The last category is reserved for "The Great Enemy" i.e. the illithid, their creations, and their thralls. Sometimes a particularly reviled trator, like someone who killed githyanki allying with a Blood Enemy, can fall into this category and be hunted by all githyanki.

Just give me the low-down on PRC. Frankly, I was used to 2nd ed. Taking a straight fighter and choosing gear and style ( more the way you play than stats ) can yield a wide variety.

Um, no on materials, at least for primary "free" weapons. They are made from astral god-steel. Period. Secondary/additional weapons are OK for any material you want and can afford. One of the reasons so much of your wealth is tied up, is the apartments of Git'riban are like mini-fortreses, with crossbows watching stairways, floorplans altered periodicaly, secret escape routes, etc.

Now a few more Meta-game rules. There is a potential for inter-party conflict, which will (hopefully) make it interesting. When we start, I will have to describe what each person sees of the others. WE know that one of the characters is really githzerai, but the characters don't, and they should never find out.

THe question about Incursion came up. Now the incurion campaign was based on the premise of "Githyanki invade YOUR game world." So, what in fact happened for our purposes here, is that the Lich Queen ordered the invasion of several prime worlds at once. Now, I played out incursion (sort of) from the githyanki point of view as a mental exercise. I had them invade the Forgotten Realms. I could enlighten you all as to how I saw it playing out, as certain of the characters may have taken part in the great incursion.

Once We Have fleshed out the gith and their backgrounds, we will start the game with a "prequal" post describing the set-up.

The half-dagons (I use this term instead of duthka'gith because i can remember how to spell "half-dragon" with consistancy) were Vlaakith's champions and special strike forces during incursion. They tended to be too proud, too chaotic, and too different to work well integrated with regular githyanki, so they tended to form their own units. Even so, they were highly loyal to the Queen, especially in her role of keeper of the Dragon Pact. With Vlaakith's demise, they mostly signed up with the Cult of Tiamat, but others remain more loyal to their warbands (or themselves).

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