Giff Warlord
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space - Boo's Astral Menagerie p. 25
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- humanoid
- Alignment
- any alignment
- AC
- 17 (half plate armor)
- Hit Points
- 178 (21d8+84)
- Speed
- walk 30 ft., swim 30 ft.
- Saving Throws
- str +10, wis +6, con +8, dex +6
- Skills
- insight +6, athletics +10, intimidation +12
- Passive Perception
- 12
- Languages
- Common
- Challenge
- 10
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+4
Firearms Knowledge
The giff's mastery of its weapons enables it to ignore the loading property of any firearm.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day)
If the giff fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
recharge
2/DAY
Actions
Multiattack
The giff makes two Morningstar attacks.
Morningstar
Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage.
Double-Barreled Musket
Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 40/120 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d12 + 2) piercing damage.
Legendary Actions
Legendary Actions (3/Turn)
The Giff Warlord can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The Giff Warlord regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
recharge
3/TURN
Move
The giff moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
Rallying Cry
The giff ends the frightened condition on itself and each creature of its choice that it can see within 30 feet of it.
Weapon of Choice (2 Actions)
The giff makes two Morningstar attacks or one Double-Barreled Musket attack.
Other data
description
It's easy to spot giff in a room: these burly folk are 7-foot-tall, hippopotamus-headed people. In Wildspace and its associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for their martial training and love of explosives and are typically armed with gleaming firearms.
Every aspect of these spacefaring giff's society is organized along military lines. From birth until death, each has a military rank. Promotions don't depend on time in service but are granted by superiors as rewards for valor.
Muskets and grenades are the specialties of many giff regiments. The bigger the boom, the brighter the flash, and the thicker the smoke it produces, the greater the glory for the one wielding the weapon.
A high-ranking giff who takes up the life of an independent mercenary might amass enough power and influence to become a warlord.
A giff warlord usually commands a small fleet of spelljamming ships and operates out of a heavily defended stronghold. Anyone who shares the warlord's ideology-whatever it might be-is eligible to join the ranks of the warlord's army, which is mainly made up of mages who helm the ships of the fleet and provide magical firepower, sellswords of various species, and guns for hire in the form of giff shock troopers.