Dungeons & Dragons 5e Race/Species : Githyanki
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Githyanki
Once members of a people who escaped servitude to mind flayers, githyanki split from their cousins, githzerai, and fled to the Astral Plane. In that timeless, silvery realm, githyanki honed their psionic powers and built a great city called Tu’narath. They have since spread throughout the multiverse, starting in outposts outside the Astral Plane, called creches, where time passes and their children can reach adulthood.
A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver astral clouds.
Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely.
A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver astral clouds.
Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely.
ability score increase:
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1.
age:
Gith reach adulthood in their late teens and live for about a century.
alignment:
Githyanki tend toward lawful evil. They are aggressive and arrogant, and they remain the faithful servants of their lich-queen, Vlaakith. Renegade githyanki tend toward chaos.
Size:
Medium
speed:
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages:
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.
race features:
Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the Jump spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the Misty Step spell with it. Once you cast Jump or Misty Step with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race). None of these spells require spell components when you cast them with this trait.
Astral Knowledge
You can mystically access a reservoir of experiences of entities connected to the Astral Plane. Whenever you finish a long rest, you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice and with one weapon or tool of your choice, selected from the Player’s Handbook, as you momentarily project your consciousness into the Astral Plane. These proficiencies last until the end of your next long rest.Martial Prodigy
You are proficient with light and medium armor and with shortswords, longswords, and greatswords.Githyanki Psionics
You know the Mage Hand cantrip, and the hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this trait.Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the Jump spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the Misty Step spell with it. Once you cast Jump or Misty Step with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race). None of these spells require spell components when you cast them with this trait.
Psychic Resilience
You have resistance to psychic damage.Githyanki Character Concepts
| D4 | Githyanki Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | When I'm bored I make my own excitement, and I'm always bored. |
| 2 | I treat others as if they were animals that simply don't know any better. |
| 3 | Violence is a spice that makes life worth living. |
| 4 | Old age is a concept that I find fascinating. Maybe someday I too will be aged. |
| D4 | Githyanki Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fidelity: Warriors are only as good as the vows they keep. |
| 2 | Power: The weak rule the strong. |
| 3 | Duty: It is by Vlaakith's will alone that I act. |
| 4 | Freedom: No strong soul should be enslaved. Better to die first than live as another's puppet. |
| D4 | Githyanki Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is no greater duty than to serve the Revered Queen. |
| 2 | Humanity thrives only because we conquered the illithids. Therefore, what is theirs is ours. |
| 3 | Without battle, life has no purpose. |
| 4 | Life is but a spark in the dark. We all go dark, but those who dare can burn bright. |
| D4 | Githyanki Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hunger and thirst are unbearable pains to me. |
| 2 | I can't see a non-githyanki as a real threat. |
| 3 | I follow orders, regardless of their implications. |
| 4 | I start projects but never finish them. |
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