I imagine a gith would get some rised eyebrows but they don't interact as much with this plane to people to react in any special way.
You are forgeting Zoru ...
As stated abowe, Druid Grove is basicaly the only settlement we visited so far ... and in this particular settlement, Githyanki are well known, bcs Zoru told everyone about them and how they killed his friend, unprovoked and in cold blood.
As confrimmed by Damays and Nymessa.
And yet reactions on our Githyanki character, or Lae'zel are quite welcoming.
Are certainly not as commonly known as Duergar, or Drow ...
And we allready can play as a Drow ... we even can quite openly admit that our character still worship Lolth, aka basicaly admits that all those horrible stories and even more they know about Drow apply on you specificaly ... and reaction?
Again, basicaly none.
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And thats what im talking about ...
Quite honestly i dont think that this have anything to do with "means Larian possess" ... after all, they admit that they lead themselves into some permutation madness by sticking to certain designs that dont actualy work so well ...
In my humble opinion, and i admit that it can be completely wrong ... this is just pressure of curent society ... certain people dont want to see "you look different and therefore we dont like you" ... even if that makes perfect sense for bzillion reasons.
And Larian (aswell as basialy any creator lately) simply dont want to upset those people.
Personaly i would also like if my Githyanki / Drow / Duergar / Yuan-ti / Half-Orc ... would be told "okey, you may enter our settlement, but you will get armed escor, surender your weapons, and you are only granted acess to main area" ...
It would be glorious!
Exactly as Niara said ... there is no joy in playing a Halfling, if the game conciders you to be a Human ...
Same goes for others ... there is no joy (for me at least) in playing a Drow, if everyone likes me, begs me for help, offers me gifts and are willing to trade with me. :-/
So there is no "do properly" ... or at least i dont believe it.
I honestly believe that Larian *could* have done reactions on *insert-evil-race* exactly as they would deserve ... they sinply choose not to.
