By far one of the coolest races in D&D.

Hell yeah, thri-kreen!

Very nicely done! There's a real shortage of well-executed insectile characters here.

It'd be nifty for this character an Ichi-gou to meet up

Oh damn! That's a whole new breed of awesome right there.

You've never heard of a Thri-kreen? They're one of the most interesting D&D races I've ever seen. I think they originated in the "Dark Sun" universe. There's a series of books out at well, definitely worth reading in their own right.

I admit I'm only vaguely familiar with Dark Sun thanks to a couple friends that like it. None of my D&D groups ever played it, so I can see how it could be missed :P

AFAIK, it was big in times of ADnD 2nd edition, and then got dropped for a while.

Me, I loved the Dark Sun computer games. Like Fallout, but fantasy. Though the graphics wasn't outstanding even for early 1990s.

By the way, lots of people played the games, but had no access to sourcebooks or novels, which resulted in some wild speculations like the connection between all Thri-kreen being female and all Mules being male :)

I know of Thri-Keen, only I know them from the 3.5 XPH. Never played any Dark Sun material.

Yep, Thri-Kreen Monk, pretty much the most broken thing ever.

Nope. Thri-kreen master thrower with the Multiweapon Fighting feat tree.

Can we say "javelin shotgun"?

Thats just a one trick pony. The monk has stacking abilities and flurry of blows that translate into a cleared room in one round.

You mean a cleared square of spaces around him out to five feet. Let's see your build take out a flying dragon.

Flurry doesn't scale for multiple hands. Thri-Kreen are born for multiweapon fighting builds with rogue, ninja, duskblade or anything else with a really strong damage buff that permits full attacks and otherwise has no scaling.

Na... i got more use out of a Thri-Kreen Soulkinfe... walk into a room and turned into a blender. No fucks were given. So long as he didnt have to deal with a long distance engagement like 100ft+ he usualy murdered whatever was in that range that needed getting dead.

I don't think I follow. Psychic strike/Knife to the Soul is a standard action, or was that errata'd? I'm missing where four arms synergizes with Soulknife at all, unless there's a really powerful build for them that doesn't involve Knife to the Soul.

I dont play D&D to break the system and throw out two hundred damage a round. Might not have been optimal but it worked very well for me

Two hundred damage a round is, like, minimum-competent for any DPS build? Either way, it's a little disingenuous to claim that you got "more use" out of a build and then in the next breath deny that it was ever your intention to represent it as a strong build.

Oh ye gods, I'd nearly forgotten about these guys x.=.x

so many attacks per turn...

Plot twist: his nose gets an itch.

well we know where THOSE feats went.

Just for giggles, She's a Monk/Whirling Dervish/Epic Monk

I'd detail all the feats buuuut at base its:

Multiattack (Racial)
Improved Multiattack
Weapon Finesse: Nunchucks
Improved unarmed Combat
Spring attack
Whirlwind Attack

Others but I don't have the sheet handy, but also carries:

Belt of Battle
Ring of Greater Draconic Rage

so...

# of attacks: All of Them. :)

Rithy

always amusing *nod*. and don't forget that bonus to disarm.

We been darksun'd!

Can't say I see a lot of thri-kreen though, so doubly cool!

Thri-Kreen monk. Oy boy.

I had mused over the idea of making a Thri-kreen character, but I figured it wouldn't happen without a level-adjustment of, like, 12 :D

Yeaaah... it's like.. +3 LA with like four monster hit dice. it's painful.

And that is why pathfinder has the better monster race system...

I agree, though it hardly has one. Just using the CR is okay, even if you can get rid of half of it. The game was never designed for people to play monster races, stuff like faerie dragon is outright broken when you make a caster. But I digress. The art is very nice, I really like the nunchuks hehe.

Per the XPH, +2 LA and 2 monstrous humanoid HD. It seems painful but that's the price of thirteen attacks a turn with greater MWF.

Oh I agree. I was going off memory. I play pathfinder now personally. The psychic powers also made them extremely powerful if you're using XPH and not the regular monster race with SLAs instead of PLAs.

Eh. A few of them are useful but if I could drop them to reduce the LA I'd do it in a hearbeat. A few low-end powers 1-3 per day really isn't a very big deal when you could get them persistent/unlimited on your gear kit for pretty cheap anyway.

Yup i agree. s'why i prefer Pathfinder, too easy to get persist/unlimited spell effects and such in 3.5. anyway, we're straying far from the point and clogging up the comments. Good picture!

I find it's a necessary balance to the devs' failure to place limits on magic and its capabilities. Access to a large range of spells via equipment keeps mages from being horrendously overpowered (Granted, n00bs who didn't understand how to build a gear kit bitched -furiously- about that anyway).

Even with gear, wizards and COD rule 3.5, no question.

Contingency ethereality, freedom of movement, mind blank (use the level 5 psiwar version) and death ward grant hard immunity to the worst they can throw (I'm not aware whether any official errata has spelled out how damp power interacts with maximize spell/power or I'd put that up there too). If you don't have all four persistent by midgame you don't deserve to live. Over meta direct damage can still potentially kill you in one shot but the metagame is pretty much all about oneshotting or being oneshotted (plus clerics with divine meta rule that game). My last group just ran everything with 2x max HP just to put maxed out blood tanks back into the 2-3 shot range - it worked decently for us.

Either way, they really don't scale as hard as melee builds can and are subject to much broader immunities.

One of my favorite artists draws my favorite fantasy race ever now? Always a good thing.

omg omg love it awww

I am always outmanned but never outgunned ;D

haha niiiiice. the way he spins them though must be dizzying

Michelangelo don't got squat on that bug

Very nice

Very awesome insect warrior! Not enough humanoid insect art I say. Awesome job! :D