Some races got shafted

[meowbeast]

Gold dwarves are a better pick for fighters than shield dwarves. I feel like shield dwarves should be the ones to get the bonus hitpoints and gold dwarves should get something else.

[LordAnubis]

Gold dwarves are a solid pick for literally any class in the game. Everyone benefits from more hit points.

[Estevan Valladares]

Not knowing how to play a class or race is not a sign of it being bad.
But I dont expect that to be understood, as people dont get it in almost any game.
Meta mentality is getting the better of gamers these days.

But a hint: HP is not all that there is to "survivability". If you have 1000 hitpoints and most attacks land full damange, it might even be worse than having 100 hitpoints and attacks miss most of the time, and/or do less damage. Age old not well understood differences between endurance, resilience, mitigation and avoidance.

[Miqi]

If you aren't playing a Gith then you're missing out.
Free medium armor prof and tons of items with stats that only works for Gith.
And free spells as you level up.

easist choice of my life.
Although using a helmet to cover their ugly faces is recommended.

[Glyph]

I'm still mildly annoyed that dragonborn breath weapon 1. Doesn't scale and 2. is usable only once per long rest (instead of shorts rests)

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by Miqi:

If you aren't playing a Gith then you're missing out.
Free medium armor prof and tons of items with stats that only works for Gith.
And free spells as you level up.

easist choice of my life.
Although using a helmet to cover their ugly faces is recommended.

Do Gith get a decent amount of special story stuff? I heard one review mention they get some race specific content, but didn't want to look too deeply and have anything spoiled, just a yes or no or about how much would be good.

[Shinkiro]

Originally posted by Miqi:

If you aren't playing a Gith then you're missing out.
Free medium armor prof and tons of items with stats that only works for Gith.
And free spells as you level up.

easist choice of my life.
Although using a helmet to cover their ugly faces is recommended.

Dont forget all the free proficiency in one stat per long rest! Githyanki are a very versatile race. Astral Knowledge is amazing, everything else is also great from the racial spells to weapon and armour proficiency. The race is amazing.

Female githyanki are really great, males are weird but theres atleast one decent face to make them look passable.

[Shinkiro]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Do Gith get a decent amount of special story stuff? I heard one review mention they get some race specific content, but didn't want to look too deeply and have anything spoiled, just a yes or no or about how much would be good.

Theres quite a few githyanki options in dialogue! They are pretty story involved like tieflings are(tons of options). I dont know how far you are, but the mountain pass arc is one too think about too.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by Shinkiro:

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Do Gith get a decent amount of special story stuff? I heard one review mention they get some race specific content, but didn't want to look too deeply and have anything spoiled, just a yes or no or about how much would be good.

Theres quite a few githyanki options in dialogue! They are pretty story involved like tieflings are(tons of options). I dont know how far you are, but the mountain pass arc is one too think about too.

Cool, thanks. I'm not super far in yet. I rolled a half-orc, but was originally considering a gith. I went half-orc simply due to the lack of one as a companion

[Rommel]

Originally posted by Miqi:

If you aren't playing a Gith then you're missing out.
Free medium armor prof and tons of items with stats that only works for Gith.
And free spells as you level up.

easist choice of my life.
Although using a helmet to cover their ugly faces is recommended.

Mods may change that.......

[Gaius]

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

Gold dwarves are a solid pick for literally any class in the game. Everyone benefits from more hit points.

Yeah, but not my much. Casters will prefer shield and light armor (humans and half elves), melee benefit from mobility (and not only they lack any mobility bonus but actually move slower) and if you accept the slow speed halflings with luck are just much better.

[Shinkiro]

Originally posted by Gaius:

Originally posted by LordAnubis:

Gold dwarves are a solid pick for literally any class in the game. Everyone benefits from more hit points.

Yeah, but not my much. Casters will prefer shield and light armor (humans and half elves), melee benefit from mobility (and not only they lack any mobility bonus but actually move slower) and if you accept the slow speed halflings with luck are just much better.

Plus Gnome cunning exists which is infinitely better than some more HP.

Frankly the only dwarf worth taking is maybe Duergar for innate Enlarge and invisibility imo. Poison hasnt been a problem so dwarven resilience is kinda mehh, more HP is negligible and Light and medium armour proficiency is provided by martial classes, or just take a Githyanki at that point.

[Miqi]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Originally posted by Miqi:

If you aren't playing a Gith then you're missing out.
Free medium armor prof and tons of items with stats that only works for Gith.
And free spells as you level up.

easist choice of my life.
Although using a helmet to cover their ugly faces is recommended.

Do Gith get a decent amount of special story stuff? I heard one review mention they get some race specific content, but didn't want to look too deeply and have anything spoiled, just a yes or no or about how much would be good.

Especially towards the end.
Arguably the best 2-handed weapon in the game is "gith" specific.

whilst some other items also have stats that only gith benefit from.

Most of these are unlocked through Lae'zels story.

[JIF]

really upset by how crappy dragonborn is. their breath attack is far too limited, and they should get some additional bonus as well like natural toughness due to scales, strength, or the ability to maul someone in close range and rip them apart with mah sharp teeth...

instead all i get is a half-decent small aoe attack that i can use only once per rest, and doesnt scale at all, AND it costs an action? BUFF DRAGONBORN PLS DEVS PLSSSSS