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

ThatOtherGuy wrote:

> 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.
>
        Both good ideas.  Whatever works for the DM.

> 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).
>
        Didn't say 'mad wizards' created them, just that they originated from a
society of 'british' humans (to match their culture:)  How they were
created I haven't really thought or cared about.
--
Adam Miller