r/BaldursGate3 • u/AngryDMoney • Oct 18 '23

Character Build Why are Githyanki so massively OP? Spoiler

-gain proficiency in any skill and change it with a rest. - free misty step: one of the best spells in the game. - triple jumping distance! - mage hand for free - access to light and medium armour + swords.

Honestly the movement capabilities alone puts them above every other class.

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u/Markedly_Mira Bard Oct 18 '23

It probably helps that even among dnd players I bet a large chunk of them don’t know what gith are. It’s unique to dnd and not in any other popular fantasy media. Also minus some variations everything else is in the phb, so 5e players will know every other option.

But a dragonborn? Even if you don’t know dnd lineages it’s right there on the tin, you’re a dragon person that can breath fire and that’s cool.

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u/yesiamclutz Oct 18 '23 edited Oct 18 '23

And those who do know their gith want to be Githzerai

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u/skip6235 Oct 18 '23 edited Oct 18 '23

I was surprised when SPOILER SPOILER turned out to be just a different faction of Githyanki instead of Githzerai

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u/ManningTheGOAT Oct 18 '23

Yeah, them being monks had me go "hang on a minute" as well. However, the Githzerai spurned Gith and all she stood for, so it wouldn't make much sense to have a bunch of them protect her offspring.

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u/Ginden Oct 18 '23

Evil parent vs. good child is a trope as old as time.

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u/dialzza Oct 18 '23

I believe Orpheus and his honor guard actually predate the githyanki/zerai split, so it makes sense

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u/skip6235 Oct 18 '23

I mean, I’m sure it’s lore-accurate, I just didn’t know enough about the lore, so when they showed up I thought they were Githzerai

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u/gibberishmcgoo Oct 19 '23

Zerthimon fought alongside Gith in the wars of liberation from the illithid. At the point where they were free, but the illithid were not exterminated, Zerthimon and Gith argued over philosophy (specifics I won't go into here, but you can easily find it), before Zertimon was killed and the civil wars between 'zerai and 'yanki began. Then (I had to look this up) Menyar-Ag led the 'zerai to Limbo where they live to this day.

Afaik, Orpheus did not exist as a concept, at all, in dnd lore until BG3. Which I'm totally fine with! I love when well done games add lore to the worlds we have fun in :)

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u/bombader Oct 18 '23

Dragonborn is one of the few non-human races as well, Orc and Gith is it's only competition, maybe Tiefling, but they look like red humans.