Re: [Re: New Races of SJ, esp Giff]

> > The problem here is that there is no definitive source
> > of information on Giff culture and psychology, which
> > leaves the matter up to speculation.  In my own
> > campaign, races that can't get themselves into space
> > end up becoming a lot like the aboriginal cultures
> > here on earth - sadly conquered and dominated by those
> > *with* spelljamming capabilities - which is why my
> > Giff have priests to gods who reflect their very
> > martial outlook on life.

Who's to say they aren't like the rock hoppers, only as they were encountered
people found they made excellent troops and so they were slowly integrated
into SJ society.

Another possibility is their symbiotic relationship with the dohwar.  The
dohwar need someone else to defend them but they can provide SJ power (and not
much else).  Thus giff and dohwar left their small planetoids and asteroid
fields and entered arcane space.

> different.  IMC, just before the Unhuman War an earlier war broke out
> between 'british' humans and an ogre empire in a distant sphere.  The
> war was brutal, and the humans were having their arses handed to them.
> The giff were created as front line shock troops.  Things just broke

The "mad wizard creation" idea has been used to many times IMO.  Turning it
around like Krynnish minotaurs, however, would be interesting.  Namely ogres
enslaved them and used them as shock troops against the humans.  Their magic
resistance making them the perfect anti-human troops (humans being known to
rely on powerful spell casters much more than any ogre).

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