Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3

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Are Githyanki players Happy with Vlaakith's representation or displeased?
Asking the DnD players and Forgotten Realms adventurers
whats your opinion on Vlaakith?
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Messaggio originale di Reconciler:
I played a gith lore bard and loved the interactions with Vlaakith. Especially when I questioned why a god would need the help of a mortal and she used Wish to end me.
This was such a great moment. I just sassed a god and got insta wiped for it I loved it lol
oh yeah, also the parasite
it literally doesnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matter. you can eat every parasite you come across and the exact same thing will happen. they cut the entire system that was supposed to punish you for it
I don't play table top, so a decent amount of this is kinda new to me, outside of the videos I've watched to catch up on things.
As for Vlaakith, I guess I imagined she'd have a unique model that looked far more necromancer undead sort of look given that's kind of how she's described. As it is, she largely just looks like a unique Githyanki model.
That doesn't bother me THAT much since I don't really care for Vlaak, but I feel it was a bit of a miss.
Messaggio originale di Targaryen22:
Messaggio originale di Reconciler:
I played a gith lore bard and loved the interactions with Vlaakith. Especially when I questioned why a god would need the help of a mortal and she used Wish to end me.
This was such a great moment. I just sassed a god and got insta wiped for it I loved it lol
I mean you get that no matter who you are, don't have to be Gith, bard, or lore. I pushed my luck just to see what would happen, was both surprised and not disappointed.
Messaggio originale di PocketYoda:
I didn't even know Githyanki existed before BG3.. I came from 2nd Edition where now of this modern stuff was made then.

They've existed since 1st edition. They're also in Baldur's Gate 2, and as others mentioned Neverwinter Nights 2.
Messaggio originale di PocketYoda:
Messaggio originale di GrandMajora:

Githyanki have been present in D&D since 1979, in an issue of White Dwarf.
Not in the main rules, unless they were just an enemy in the monster manual.. Our DM forbid us from reading that.

Gith, being githyankis or githzerai (which are the "good" giths and are kind of a copy paste of jedis), are usually not a playable race outside of planescape (pretty much anything is fair game in planescape) and spelljammer.

Fun fact, githyankis are portrayed as enemies and npcs in baldur's gate 2 in chapter 5 (you can even get one of their silverblades). And there is a githzerai companion in planescape torment.
Messaggio originale di PocketYoda:
I didn't even know Githyanki existed before BG3.. I came from 2nd Edition where now of this modern stuff was made then.

Modern stuff? Githyanki are in 1e. You sure you play d&d?
Messaggio originale di Drake:

Gith, being githyankis or githzerai (which are the "good" giths and are kind of a copy paste of jedis), are usually not a playable race outside of planescape (pretty much anything is fair game in planescape) and spelljammer.

Fun fact, githyankis are portrayed as enemies and npcs in baldur's gate 2 in chapter 5 (you can even get one of their silverblades). And there is a githzerai companion in planescape torment.

Another fun fact: the Githzerai decided to make their home on the plane of Limbo, where they used their psychic powers to create and maintain fortresses built from adamantine.

Limbo is the plane of Chaotic Neutral, where reality is constantly shifting and never remains consistent for very long. That is, unless you have an immensely strong willpower, in which case you can force your environment to bend to your will.

The Githzerai have a strong enough willpower to establish semi-permanent fortresses amidst a swirling void of unfettered chaos!
Messaggio originale di naughtywookie:

Modern stuff? Githyanki are in 1e. You sure you play d&d?

They're not from the Gygaxian era, you can't say that smh.
Messaggio originale di Dr. Sinclair:
oh yeah, also the parasite
it literally doesnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matter. you can eat every parasite you come across and the exact same thing will happen. they cut the entire system that was supposed to punish you for it

kinda reminds me of the No Man Sky thing
where they did launch the game with rotating planets so when you fly back to a planet, everything is shifted because of the rotation
but players keep reporting it as an ingame bug and they had to remove the feature.
so i assume the ticking clock feature was widely disliked by some ppl so they removed it.


also like that one dude who got so miffed over Tracer's butt in Overwatch 1 that he caused a big fuss about it for a while until Blizzard nerfed her butt to be more... flat.
Messaggio originale di Daryl:
Messaggio originale di Dr. Sinclair:
oh yeah, also the parasite
it literally doesnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matter. you can eat every parasite you come across and the exact same thing will happen. they cut the entire system that was supposed to punish you for it

kinda reminds me of the No Man Sky thing
where they did launch the game with rotating planets so when you fly back to a planet, everything is shifted because of the rotation
but players keep reporting it as an ingame bug and they had to remove the feature.
so i assume the ticking clock feature was widely disliked by some ppl so they removed it.


also like that one dude who got so miffed over Tracer's butt in Overwatch 1 that he caused a big fuss about it for a while until Blizzard nerfed her butt to be more... flat.
it wasnt supposed to be a ticking clock feature
it was merely supposed to punish you the more you relied on the powers given to you
apparently Githyanki players are super rare no one likes Githyanki.
everyone is stuck as white humans lol why would you play that in rpg...
Ultima modifica da dolby; 14 ago 2023, ore 23:17
Messaggio originale di dolby:
apparently Githyanki players are super rare no one likes Githyanki.
everyone is stuck as white humans lol why would you play that in rpg...

cos alot of ppl want to emulate themselves in their video games
its kinda why in all rpg games i play
i always have my main character as a human
xD then make different races.

heck even in Dragonball Xenoverse 1 and 2, my first character and main is Human.
Messaggio originale di Daryl:
Messaggio originale di dolby:
apparently Githyanki players are super rare no one likes Githyanki.
everyone is stuck as white humans lol why would you play that in rpg...

cos alot of ppl want to emulate themselves in their video games
its kinda why in all rpg games i play
i always have my main character as a human
xD then make different races.

heck even in Dragonball Xenoverse 1 and 2, my first character and main is Human.


Well, i can play any races and defined that character as myself...cos it's about personality and actions i take that's besed on that personality they both defined each other. But hey that's me and how i roleplay.
Do wish we had more body type though just for more cool visuals choices..


i don't see a race to be something that should define me as such... At least not as much as some of you let it.

Especially something so superficial as color of the skin or the shape or your ears ect...
My main concern is that wish doesn't kill.

It can mimic spells that harm people, but wish itself cannot be used to just kill someone. The fact she casts wish on you to kill you for questioning her is silly.

She's not a god, she's not even actually there, she's just a powerful lich that's convinced her species to sustain her through guile and lies, good for her I suppose.

Orpheus is far more interesting. And I really wish I could have interacted with him far more in the game than just at the bare end of a buggy 3rd act.

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Wish#content

For reference, this is what Wish does in D&D 5e.

This entire interaction is awful, and It gives Vlakkath more power than she actually has. She's a deadly lich, sure. But the only spell that can just outright kill is Powerword: Kill, which doesn't work on any targets over 100 hp. (And seems to only be a power Bhaal Lord of Murder can provide in this specific setting)

Again, Vlakkath is NOT a god, it's not some divine enhanced wish, she's just a powerful lich, that's out in the Astral Sea, she's not even on the prime plane. It's just her projection.

Having all the Githyanki Attack me for mocking their supposed god? Sure, 100% makes sense. Fine. That makes sense, but her being entire planes of existence away and casting wish through a projection to just instant kill an adventurer that sassed her? That makes no sense at all, and is narratively and mechanically stupid.
Ultima modifica da Nyaria; 15 ago 2023, ore 0:08
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Data di pubblicazione: 14 ago 2023, ore 19:58
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