Larian stated they're supposed Githyanki is the least popular race.

[Dokuujin]

How is Githyanki being the least popular race surprising? The fact that they are even playable is kind of a sore spot for me.

They are the ONLY race not from the PHB, and while I get that they are integral to the story, there are TONS of races that would have been much more appreciated. I will probably never play a Gith (aside of Lae'Zel) out of sheer SPITE.

Gith is probably among the 5 least popular races in all of D&D, so them being the only extra race to make it REALLY bothers me.

No Warforged makes sense; they're pretty specific setting wise. But not a SINGLE one of the giant descendant races made it? Firbolg has been around since 1e. And Goliath is my most played race.

Lack of Genasi severely limits customization.

Not one single beast race ostracizes an entire community.

Goblins and Bugbears are straight up in the game, but not playable.

Half orcs are playable, but as far as I know full blooded orcs don't even exist.

I'm not upset that Githyanki are playable, and I welcome any options we can have... But saying it's surprising that they are the least popular race WOULD straight up make me wonder if Larian even did any kind of research in the D&D community, if it werent for the fact that the game is so damn good.

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Keep up the good work but for the love of God give us races better than effing Gith.

Edit: Man this thread went from a joke (Gith really aren't THAT bad, man) to a lot of angy people REAL fast.

[Eckoh]

Gith make great skill monkeys witht hat racial that gives you bonuses to everything on that stat...

[Stygian Ikazuchi]

I've got some good news for you, OP. https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/215 this is supposed to update sometime today.

[Snefru]

I choose my race by which one looks the cutest as a short chubby woman. That race wasn’t the winner.

[Dokuujin]

Originally posted by Stygian Ikazuchi:

I've got some good news for you, OP. https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/215 this is supposed to update sometime today.

Bet.

Now if I can just get this clothing mod to work I can die happy.

[Adam__86]

Goblins would have been more interesting

[deadsanta]

Originally posted by Dokuujin:

Not one single beast race ostracizes an entire community.

Furries are not a community, they are a freaking *affliction*.

[nilus]

To each their own I guess. Personally I’m old school D&D and I don’t like any races that aren’t in the PHB and kinda hate that 4e and 5e have added races to the base game. Tieflings make sense in Planescape but not elsewhere imho. Robot people and dragon people just don’t do it for me either.

I’m fine with weird new races for new settings but the fact that they have just been like “♥♥♥♥ it, they are all in the Forgotten Realms now” rubs me the wrong way.

But whatever. Games great so I don’t care.

[MjKorz]

Githyanki being playable makes perfect sense since they are heavily tied into the storyline and the overall theme of the game. What I'd like to have in addition to that is Githzerai
being playable as well (at worst unique to player character) and have unique interactions with the Githyanki and Lae'zel.

[RhodosGuard]

They are there so your MC can be more integral to Lae'Zels storyline.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by ACS36:

It's obvious the dev's don't really play or know D&D that well. They might be good at making video games, but they don't really have a passion for D&D. They've even stated the game likely won't have future content because it's 'too hard' to make games using the D&D rules.

This right here. After three years of EA, I've realized that Larian/Sven hate D&D.

[That Casul Guy]

It is a real surprise to me that the first Gith you meet is an arse hole, and later when you meet more they are arse holes too and the numbers show they aren't popular. In other surprises, water is wet.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Mods will add more racial choices eventually.

[zombygunner]

yeah shes a jerk to everyone i bet you could play a bad guy and shed love it.

[Draffut]

They only had the development time to add one extra race, with all the design and dialog options that comes with it. So they picked the one most integral to the story. Goblin is literally the only other race I would have expected.

[Drimon]

The only problem i have with them is that the whole Race are NeoNazi.
I dont want to play a NeoNazi... Laezel is hot but does not make her less of a NeoNazi.