Githzerai

Githzerai
Characteristics
Alignment	Usually Chaotic Neutral
Type	Humanoid (Extraplanar)
Publication history
First appearance	Fiend Folio (1981)

The githzerai are a fictional race of creatures in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Githzerai are extraplanar humanoid creatures that reside on the Plane of Limbo.

The githzerai were created by Charles Stross for the Fiend Folio Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign (1981). They were originally introduced as monsters, but they are a playable character race in the Planescape campaign setting, and have been detailed further in D&D 3.0 and 3.5.

The githzerai first appears in the first edition Fiend Folio (1981). In the indexes Charles Stross is listed as the creator of this fictional race.

The githzerai appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix (1991), and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993), which includes the githzerai rrakkma band and the githzerai zerth.

The githzerai was further detailed in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994).The Planewalker's Handbook (1996) presented the githzerai as a player character race.

The githzerai is also presented as a playable character race in Player's Option: Skills & Powers (1995).

The githzerai first appears in the Psionics Handbook (2001), and then in this edition's Manual of the Planes (2001).

The githzerai appears in the revised Monster Manual for this edition (2003), and was further detailed as a player character race in the Expanded Psionics Handbook (2004) (along with the psionic githzerai) and as a character class in Complete Psionic (2006).

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