Closest Starfinder analog to githzerai?


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Title says it all. What Starfinder race (no 3rd party, please) comes closest to classic githzerai in feel/attitude?


I mean, Githzerai are mostly just humans who live in a weird place and have a history of being an exploited people with a largely monastic culture.

Maybe Xenometric Android (Kasatha) to get the android exploitation and the kasatha's ritualistic culture.


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Draeliks perhaps?

They're focused on nihilistic monastic ways, but they aren't evil either.


Garretmander wrote:

Draeliks perhaps?

They're focused on nihilistic monastic ways, but they aren't evil either.

Umm, per the Alien Archive 1 they are neutral evil.


Nihilism in general is NE according to pathfinder's lore.

I'm referring to 'not evil' as in they don't go out of their way to kill people and destroy things, they just use negative energy as much as possible.

So... metaphysically evil, but according to my personal moral compass, not actively evil.


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Samsarans perhaps?

Of course, since you didn't want 3rd party, maybe they will be converted over from Pathfinder in a Paizo product before too long -- possibly by the same people who did the 3rd party version.


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The Tryziarka (Alien Archive 4, page 126) Look visually similar, at least in my opinion. Their whole theme is tattoo magic and flexibility though.

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David knott 242 wrote:

Samsarans perhaps?

Of course, since you didn't want 3rd party, maybe they will be converted over from Pathfinder in a Paizo product before too long -- possibly by the same people who did the 3rd party version.

If they ARE they won't be githyanki, but something else: the gith peoples are D&D copyrighted, and Paizo has been trying to distance their worldbuilding from D&D's for a while now.


Nighthorror888 wrote:
The Tryziarka (Alien Archive 4, page 126) Look visually similar, at least in my opinion. Their whole theme is tattoo magic and flexibility though.

Yeah they do!!!

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
If they ARE they won't be githyanki, but something else: the gith peoples are D&D copyrighted, and Paizo has been trying to distance their worldbuilding from D&D's for a while now.

I believe they meant that Paizo might do the Samsaran NOT that they would do any of the actual Gith from D&D, though I could be wrong!

I also want to point out that the Samsaran HAD been done in the Alien Character Deck though, looks like it came out Early 2020(January) from what I can find!

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