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| Sentient mantis. Strange, scary folk. Four arms. Like their elves raw.
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| They have poisonous bites, psionics, and they can jump like grasshoppers. They don't sleep, but their lifespan is only 30 years. They prefer double-bladed <strike>lightsabers</strike> polearms, and make three-sided Xena-style boomerang throwy-things by mixing their venom with plant sap until it hardens. They've also gone through a few different body configurations over the years, starting out as basically praying mantises with hands and moving towards a notably more humanoid bent in recent editions.
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| First showed up in AD&D in ''Monstrous Manual'', and became a playable character race in the [[Dark Sun]] Revised edition. The MM specifically stats the basic thri-kreen, and mentions the existence of two cousin species; the more powerful and intelligent [[Tohr-kreen]] ("mantis nobles") and the spacefaring surgeons & bio-artificers called [[Xixchil]]. There would eventually be a Dark Sun splat detailing all of the varieties of thri-kreen and tohr-kreen (basic tohr-kreen, j'ez, j'ohl, giant zik-trin'ak, primitive trin, laborer t'keech, female druid tondi), whilst the xixchil would get attention paid to them in [[Spelljammer]].
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| Thri-kreen are the darlings of [[powergamers]] everywhere, as four arms means four weapons means all sorts of crazy builds focused on massive, nigh-unusable numbers of attacks each turn. It turns out four arms doesn't help with spellcasting at all, so they're actually not such a huge deal.
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| They were recently voted one of the three most-popular races to be added to 5e, perhaps because they're the hardest "core" [[Dark Sun]] race to just glue another's template over and call it a day. The designer admitted that doing so would be pretty tough, but that it had to happen eventually.
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| They're a favourite when some [[drawfag]] offers to sketch some [[Thri-Kreen_Erotica|erotica]] for /tg/, and wants to squick us out instead. Well, except for those corrupted by [[Slaanesh]].
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| == Gallery ==
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| <gallery>
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| Image:Thrikrn.jpg|L'original.
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| Image:Thri-kreen art 3.jpg|CHATCHKAS AND SPEARS
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| Image:Thri-kreen.jpg|Long pointy sticks and three-pronged throwing stars.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_meditate.jpg|No magic, psionics only, final destination.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_knives.jpg|Knifin' around
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| Image:Thri-kreen_wave.jpg|Hello there!
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| Image:Thri-kreen_potion.png|Potions!
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| Image:Thri-kreen_and_bard.png|Oh my!
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| Image:Thri-kreen_sketchy.jpg|The noble paladin Sir Mix-A-Lot once explicated the virtues of a large abdomen.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_4e.png|[[Dungeons_%26_Dragons_4th_Edition|Now with boobs!]]
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| Image:Thri-kreen_oh_god.jpg|Now with wait a minute what the fuck
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| Image:Thri-kreen_princess.jpg|Ready for her wedding day.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_sleek.png|Sleek!
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| Image:Thri-kreen_knock.png|You should be ashamed of yourselves, fa/tg/uys.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_bra.gif|Fa/tg/uys are a bunch of disgusting perverts.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_heart.jpg|But it's okay. She loves us anyway.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_strip.gif|Is that an immovable rod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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| Image:Thri-kreen_dom.jpg|This is just wrong! [[Dark_Sun|Dark Sun]] [[dwarf|dwarves]] don't have beards!
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| Image:Thri-kreen_half.png|WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE
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| Image:Thri-kreen_nurse.png|Thri-kreen girl what are you doing you are not a nurse
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| Image:1270871950526.png|[[Drawfag]], you got some splainin' to do!
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| Image:Thri-kreenAlchemist.png|Four arms makes for a lot of potion throwing.
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| Image:Thri-kreen_date.jpg|DATE NIGHT
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| Image:Thri-kreen_bird.jpg|Snack time?
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| Image:Thri-kreen_alchemy.png|SCIENCE!
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| Image:Thri-kreen_loli.png|D'awww
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| Image:Thri-kreen_play.png|D'AWWWWWW
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| Image:Top-heavy Kreen.png|18 Charisma
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| Image:Shy-kreen.jpg|"I do declare!"
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| Image:Buggy_chart.jpg|90% or gtfo.
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| </gallery>
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| {{D&D4e-Races}}
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| [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]
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