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#1
zombiegleemax
Aug 08, 2003 3:51:25 In Dragon/Dungeon Mag. they´ve started the Incursion mini campaign with Githyanki invading your realm. There is one story plot where the Githyanki lich-queen is searching for the long lost body of a gith good.
What do you think? Is this a possible campaign also for DS? Maybe the Githyanki are searching Athas because of their primitive cousins, the Giths. The official Black Sands campaign has a plotline that was very close to this.
#2
zombiegleemax
Aug 08, 2003 4:13:57 I normally hate when Dragon devotes half their magazine to one single lame topic that I rarely like, use, or even give more than a cursory read.

This time, I was wrong. The Incursion articles really kick serious rear. I always opted for a closed DS setting (no planar access besides the Grey and the Black), but I may have to find some way to get a good old githyanki invasion going, even if its a side game just for kicks (especially once Cry Havoc is released with mass combat rules or if WOTC has warfare rules in the Complete Fighter's Handbook).

I'd ditch the whole 'searching for lost god thing'. It sounds to trite (even in another setting). Searching for the gith? Heh, I think they'd be a bit disapointed at what they found, but maybe vengeful enough to extreminate the people that have 'corrupted their kin'. Either way, I just hope that my new group hasn't read this magazine as eventually they're going to be hit by thousands of githyanki swarming on them en masse!
#3
zombiegleemax
Aug 08, 2003 8:52:02 The old Black Spine boxed modul has the same setup. Dragon beats a dead kank? Or the Incursion is a kind of conversion of the Black Spine?
#4
zombiegleemax
Aug 08, 2003 14:07:06 Not quite although you can find a similarity or two.

The Incursion set up follows a series of articles that detail how to have a full scale githyanki invasion of your home game (and not just the hinting of it as in Black Spine). Further articles cover how to run it with low, mid, and high level PCs, or even how to make it an entire start to finish (1st-20th lvl) campaign. There's a corresponding adventure in Dungeon #100, but I've not read it.
#5
zombiegleemax
Aug 11, 2003 2:23:31 "The City by the Silt Sea" has one more hint of extraplanar travel: Dregoth is playing around with a planargate. Maybe he has by mistake opened up the connection to the Githyanki enabling them to learn about Athas. There we have a hook to the "lost god motivation" as the lich-queen might assume that the gith is somehow straded on this barren world.

This story could be a classic SciFi scenario, where the "gods" do plant their seeds on several worlds but then either let them alone and prosper for a millenia or just forget about them. Now they realize what had come out as their offspring (well, Giths...) and possibly trying to change that by upgrading the Giths using magic or psionics.

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#1 zombiegleemax Aug 08, 2003 3:51:25	In Dragon/Dungeon Mag. they´ve started the Incursion mini campaign with Githyanki invading your realm. There is one story plot where the Githyanki lich-queen is searching for the long lost body of a gith good. What do you think? Is this a possible campaign also for DS? Maybe the Githyanki are searching Athas because of their primitive cousins, the Giths. The official Black Sands campaign has a plotline that was very close to this.
#2 zombiegleemax Aug 08, 2003 4:13:57	I normally hate when Dragon devotes half their magazine to one single lame topic that I rarely like, use, or even give more than a cursory read. This time, I was wrong. The Incursion articles really kick serious rear. I always opted for a closed DS setting (no planar access besides the Grey and the Black), but I may have to find some way to get a good old githyanki invasion going, even if its a side game just for kicks (especially once Cry Havoc is released with mass combat rules or if WOTC has warfare rules in the Complete Fighter's Handbook). I'd ditch the whole 'searching for lost god thing'. It sounds to trite (even in another setting). Searching for the gith? Heh, I think they'd be a bit disapointed at what they found, but maybe vengeful enough to extreminate the people that have 'corrupted their kin'. Either way, I just hope that my new group hasn't read this magazine as eventually they're going to be hit by thousands of githyanki swarming on them en masse!
#3 zombiegleemax Aug 08, 2003 8:52:02	The old Black Spine boxed modul has the same setup. Dragon beats a dead kank? Or the Incursion is a kind of conversion of the Black Spine?
#4 zombiegleemax Aug 08, 2003 14:07:06	Not quite although you can find a similarity or two. The Incursion set up follows a series of articles that detail how to have a full scale githyanki invasion of your home game (and not just the hinting of it as in Black Spine). Further articles cover how to run it with low, mid, and high level PCs, or even how to make it an entire start to finish (1st-20th lvl) campaign. There's a corresponding adventure in Dungeon #100, but I've not read it.
#5 zombiegleemax Aug 11, 2003 2:23:31	"The City by the Silt Sea" has one more hint of extraplanar travel: Dregoth is playing around with a planargate. Maybe he has by mistake opened up the connection to the Githyanki enabling them to learn about Athas. There we have a hook to the "lost god motivation" as the lich-queen might assume that the gith is somehow straded on this barren world. This story could be a classic SciFi scenario, where the "gods" do plant their seeds on several worlds but then either let them alone and prosper for a millenia or just forget about them. Now they realize what had come out as their offspring (well, Giths...) and possibly trying to change that by upgrading the Giths using magic or psionics.