Editing Girtablilu (section)

==Pathfinder==
The girtablilu finally had their name used when [[Pathfinder]] created its own race of scorpion-people. Reaching before the one-dimensional eeevil aberrations of D&D, PF restored ''White Dwarf'' #16's manscorpion: a ''neutral'' force.

Still aberrant (as with [[yuan-ti]], femmes get milkies), girtablilu culture revolves around honoring the memories of lost deities and ancient faiths, which they perform by devotedly guarding ancient ruins in deserts, badlands and other hostile regions where they can survive. Intensely religious, they are natural [[theocracy|theocrats]], with their leaders invariably being [[oracle]]s, [[shaman]]s or [[cleric]]s. Their driving belief is that their protection maintains ancient wardings and barriers against malevolent forces from other realms, and they are loathe to allow others to violate their sacred trust. Still, they much prefer to scare off trespassers than kill them, and can be reasoned with - unless they think you're a tomb robber, in which case you'll be shown no mercy.

Pathfinder's girtablilu immediately caught /tg/'s attention because, no matter how skubby the system is, their iconic girtablilu was a near-naked, voluptuous, dark-skinned scorpion-woman. Even if the Inner Sea Monster Codex did squander that a little by only using portraits of male girtablilu.