We just had a strange encounter with TWO illithids. We stormed the tower of one, hacking apart his cloth golems (yes, CLOTH golems...) and dominated puppets and when he teleported us to him, we knew we were in deep shit. We still managed to convince him that we did him a favor - we weren't a particulary powerful group, and we trashed his defenses, giving him a chance to improve them. Next we encountered his dimension-hopping brother who invited us to have a tea with him (yes, it HAD a kind of wonderland feeling...). He told us that he would decide over the course of the tea ceremony if he would kill us or give us magic items. In the end I think it was our craziness that amused him enough to let us go - from our druid to turn into an octopus and playing his pet to my mage whom he had a fascinating discussion with that someone should try to alter all of humankind to have thinner blood since that was so hard to get out of your carpet again once you had spilled your enemies'. Both were pretty insane and hated each other - and they were living nearly next to each other and didn't even know it. We could have started a psychic war right next to our town if our social rolls (and near-insane roleplay) hadn't been so good. No brains got stolen (though the danger was there), but they kinda hurt afterwards - it was a weird session even for illithid standards.
LOL, sounds like good times were had by all that is what is important. Sometimes you need a silly session with brain sucking illithids. I got a chuckle out of it anyway. -Nerdarchist Dave
My friend's illithids are so crazy, they invented their own magic internet and carry electronic tablets. All the evil is just to fuel their wifi in other play each other in games."Signal's getting low, Larry. Burn another deep gnome, Larry. Ok, Larry."
Or torture the non mindflayer races by making them watch and play hours of brain crush. Thanks for sharing the evil internet is pretty entertaining. -Nerdarchist Dave
We're about to have a huge battle between an army of Mages and my group against an army of Illithids next session... It's gonna be nuts and I personally cannot wait.
Just wanted to say love your videos, and the mindflayers are a personal favorite, and one of the best boss diversions, often it's fun to give players this common "false" enemy when really it was the flayer the whole time. I wanted to also comment how good of an idea was posted already in the comments about it being the power source for a warlock. What I want to see is a video on for alternate final bosses for fm written games, what creatures can we use or even modify to be my PCs' winning victory or crushing defeat
Thanks we appreciate the kind words. I agree the warlock patron suggestion is a great one. The illithid make a great addition to any plot involving a read herring. What is FM short for? I'll see what we can do with your request just want to make sure we understand it. -Nerdarchist Dave
Oh the Mindflayer, one of my all time favs. I am seriously considering running a One Shot with PC Illithids over on the OSG. I especially like your submerged Illithid mothership idea.
One of my favorite villains, Carbo El Diablo, was an Illithid. He was beholden to an evil, forgotten deity thus exiled from his clan. He was given the ability to gain the memories and powers of anyone he drained. When he killed the group's wizard he learned all that player's memorized spells and spell slots. He was a recurring villain in a campaign to stop his long dead deity from being resurrected. He was one of four harbingers to the god (others included a Yuan-ti, Death Knight, and a Drow).
In my current campaign ive combined Mindflayers and Krakens together. Similar to dragons, krakens can change form into mindflayers. This makes a horribly overpowered kraken, which can now levitate and fit through doorways!
nice one guys. I like the idea of mixing cthulu mythos and the mindflayer and the spacehipr/plane ship idea. I also got a kick out of the Good Mindflayer idea. In Lankmar, Fritz lieber had two alien uber mages, I forget their names, but one had multiple eyes, and the other had no eyes... their alien nature seems like a fit too.
Thanks. Our objective with our dungeons and dragons monsters series is to come up with fun, interesting, and clever ways to spice up monsters that have been seeing play for decades. -Nerdarchist Dave
So, you know how illithids reproduce right? They make little parasites in this spawning pool type thing and has them latch onto and slowly take the place of a creatures head, so this got me thinking... How about illithid dragons and illithid beholders? A terrifying pair of thoughts indeed.
They were apart of d&d v3.5 Forgotten Realms, though I'm not sure which books. An illithid dragon was called a "Brainstealer Dragon" while an illithid beholder was called a "Mindwitness" For a list of more illithid creatures check this wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illithid
I'm considering a mind flayer as my first big villain in my new campaign I'm about to start. This helped a lot with how I think I might play him. I think he has been exiled from the under-dark and he is amassing an army of top dwelling monsters to either destroy his kind for his exile or try and take over the surface in order to gain favour and be welcomed back. Either way he wants to dominate the surface as a first move and I think he would be a smart enough monster to do such a thing. I like the thought of a puppeteer of sorts in the background pulling string that the PCs can discover. I'm also considering him subduing an ancient gold Dragon at some point who is actually a high ranking member of the clergy to eat his brain and steal his knowledge (which seems like a big thing for a mind flayer as dragons are quite intelligent) for the PCs to save. Haven't worked out all the details yet but, if you have any other thoughts or suggestions I would be more then happy to hear them. =)
Inspiration can come hit out of nowhere sometimes. I clicked this video because I saw Illithids. I had a Player ask if they could be an Illithid in our new campaign, a vaguely-Anime-feel campaign where we have some oddball and fun re-skinned PCs. I of course said 'NO' instinctively, but I like to have a 'But you can do this instead...' to follow my 'NO" with, and now you guys have me rethinking how I can make them happy without them being too ridiculous. It'll take some work but by the next session I'm going to have a reskinned, reworked Illithid PC option for them. Thanks for the inspiration guys!
Can one mindblast a thrall thats dominated? If so perhaps a wisdom check during interogation blows his head up? Perhaps a neat introduction into a mindflayer campaign?
The idea of the good Illithid reminds me of a recent Doctor Who episode with a good Dalek. Actually, I feel like Illithids and Daleks could make a terrifying team-up... My only problem with Illithids is that the lore says that only renegades and outcasts work alone, but I sort of find a lone mind flayer more interesting than a community of them. Like all of those ideas you proposed seemed to work better with a loner. What do you think?
A lone illithid in my opinion is an operative of a larger collective. So they may be alone, but they aren't technically a lone illithid. Their peers aren't to far off. Just my opinion. -Nerdarchist Dave
Someone told me a story about how they got to do a campaign where they could play pretty much anything so long as it was about the same size as playable things, the DM would convert monsters to be playable races basically. And so the person I know played a Mindflayer who was completely out of it and thought he was a human, used disguise magic for appearance, except he would still eat brains so a villager would go missing every once and a while. XD
So one part of this elaborate campaign I've built for my friends involving ascended mortals as gods and Great Old Ones that long predated them that got banished and are returning actually has Illithids and Yuan-Ti both vying to gain control of a city that is the single greatest military might of the continent. It's not obvious though and they're both hidden behind layers and layers of mystery and intrigue and whichever group the party discovers first and goes out to destroy the other group will have managed to infiltrate the city government (because they'll probably be away for weeks trying to arrive at and destroy the empire) and is attempting to rebuild its lost empire. So when they return to the city most everything will seem completely normal but there will be small hints that slowly trickle in for them to find and then have to ferret out the other group and go destroy them if they want to essentially prevent the collapse of the continent. Depending on how long it takes for them to figure out depends on how far the reach and power grows.
I finished a campaign in 4e a few months ago, one of the main antagonists who were collecting some material called Quintessence from humanoids, plants and ore. They are following an entity/philosophy/god named Thoon. I got the idea from the 3.5 supplement monster manual V : mind flayers of thoon. The general idea was that Thoon was the ultimate elder brain of the race, when they won in the end of the universe and it was collapsing into itself. So Thoon created time travel because why not and sent out the mindflayers in the past to gather some quintessence and try to prevent the end of the universe by some way and in the process, still try to conquer it anyway. Never had the chance to finish it because I stopped that campaign to go to my new campaign setting of 5e.
Consider the Mindflayer noble, the Ulitharid. This might even be a Warlock "Elder One" patron. Or you might even have a typical Mindflayer inserting himself in the life of an Elder One Warlock to "make sure" that the player stays on task. I like the concept of a campaign where the players are caught between the machinations of an Ulitharid, a Lich and a Dragon - and only two are evil. Heck, the Ulitharid may well be evil, but his end game is to get back to the Far Realm, and the destruction og the group is "below his efforts" No one, to my memory, has even considered an illithid posing as a female NPC. With such massive intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores, the party may well serve her goals without revealing her true nature. There was an older Dragon/Dungeon magazine adventure from years back had the party working for an Ulitharid to end massive earthquakes generated by a lava beast of some kind. Can't remember the issue, but it was a stressful adventure.
LOL all I can think about is the illthid posing as a female npc and using a romantic interest with one of the players to manipulate them. My mind keeps going to the big reveal when that player is like "I did what, with that!" -Nerdarchist Dave
I may have missed it, but I do not know if mindflayers actually have "a sex", but with the lack of input, there's no reason to think that they do not. The species is an interesting one with as much depth as a villain as any vampire, lich or dragon. Perhaps expanding the "villain" or "patron" archetypes is necessary. Mummy Lords, Beholders, Sphinxes, greater Slaad...all have the potential to be these overarching villains or patrons (in the case of Sphinxes) just like the mindflayer, death knight, lich, vampire or dragon. Discuss! :)
Mike Gould they could be asexual in that the elder brain spawns newborns. And if there is not an elder brain then one of them begins a metamorphosis into one or perhaps there is a ritual that allows one to become one. Nate the Nerdarch
Best story for everyone, I was in a party with a bard who used a charm spell, can't remember which one, against a mind flayer and controlled it. The next thing from the bard mouth I will never forget, 'Do me a favor and command you thralls to attack you, and so only I can stop them from attacking you.' I completely lost it as this mind flayer essentially got beat up by his own minions, while he was controlling them and the bard just stood there, playing his guitar.
I made a mindflayer named the Grand One who lead a thieving guild and dealt with all face to face while simply wearing a face cover, and the party went crazy over who was he.
It's... weird. all illithids thrive in the hum of the elder brain- their master, companion, and second opinion. a mind flayer can, and often does when on slave capturing missions, go well and away beyond the central hive of an illithid grotto. I liken their general experience to knowing that God speaks directly to you, with evidence to the point. they're fully conscious and self-aware, but they devote their goals and selves to the plots, schemes, ploys, and machinations of the elder brain, with their final reward being returned to the all-encompassing consciousness of the elder brain after the failing of their physical selves. they're all Joan of arc, except they're wholly evil and hunger for brains.
Don't the Illithids have a prophecy about one of their own kind retaining the full personality of it's host and wiping their people out? Could make for an interesting ranger with aberrations as its racial enemy. :P
Brainstealer Dragons, when an Illithid is made with a dragon instead of a humanoid. Dear god if it still had its breath weapon "it fires mind blasts instead".
My dm made me go up against a mindflayer once the entire time i was fighting orcs goblins and other creatures just never ending hordes up until i was about to die. i had a elf trying to stab me until everything vanished and the knife was in my hand and i was holding myself back from stabbing myself the illithid used mind control. And the dm just had me trapped in mental battle i really liked mindflayers after that lol
The most disturbing mind flayer abomination servitor was the one in second edition made using troglodytes, their skin became transparent and much of their muscle tissues became brain tissue you could see under their skin.
At technosis skilled i would have called for a mindsplinter reverse feed from a technosis mind-scratch after a psycic slide..$? Did you want to go for a ride
I'm a big fan of the Illithids. The alhoon, illithid lich, in particular are a big part of a campaign I'm currently running.
They have always been one of the best monsters from D&D.
-Nerdarchist Dave
We just had a strange encounter with TWO illithids. We stormed the tower of one, hacking apart his cloth golems (yes, CLOTH golems...) and dominated puppets and when he teleported us to him, we knew we were in deep shit. We still managed to convince him that we did him a favor - we weren't a particulary powerful group, and we trashed his defenses, giving him a chance to improve them. Next we encountered his dimension-hopping brother who invited us to have a tea with him (yes, it HAD a kind of wonderland feeling...). He told us that he would decide over the course of the tea ceremony if he would kill us or give us magic items. In the end I think it was our craziness that amused him enough to let us go - from our druid to turn into an octopus and playing his pet to my mage whom he had a fascinating discussion with that someone should try to alter all of humankind to have thinner blood since that was so hard to get out of your carpet again once you had spilled your enemies'. Both were pretty insane and hated each other - and they were living nearly next to each other and didn't even know it. We could have started a psychic war right next to our town if our social rolls (and near-insane roleplay) hadn't been so good.
No brains got stolen (though the danger was there), but they kinda hurt afterwards - it was a weird session even for illithid standards.
LOL, sounds like good times were had by all that is what is important. Sometimes you need a silly session with brain sucking illithids. I got a chuckle out of it anyway.
-Nerdarchist Dave
My friend's illithids are so crazy, they invented their own magic internet and carry electronic tablets. All the evil is just to fuel their wifi in other play each other in games."Signal's getting low, Larry. Burn another deep gnome, Larry. Ok, Larry."
Or torture the non mindflayer races by making them watch and play hours of brain crush. Thanks for sharing the evil internet is pretty entertaining.
-Nerdarchist Dave
We're about to have a huge battle between an army of Mages and my group against an army of Illithids next session...
It's gonna be nuts and I personally cannot wait.
Sounds like a real mind blast. :-) - Nerdarchist Dave
Just wanted to say love your videos, and the mindflayers are a personal favorite, and one of the best boss diversions, often it's fun to give players this common "false" enemy when really it was the flayer the whole time. I wanted to also comment how good of an idea was posted already in the comments about it being the power source for a warlock. What I want to see is a video on for alternate final bosses for fm written games, what creatures can we use or even modify to be my PCs' winning victory or crushing defeat
Thanks we appreciate the kind words. I agree the warlock patron suggestion is a great one. The illithid make a great addition to any plot involving a read herring. What is FM short for? I'll see what we can do with your request just want to make sure we understand it.
-Nerdarchist Dave
The mega brain could be a good Patron for a Warlock using the Great Old One patron.
Excellent idea. That would make a nice Warlock Patron.
-Nerdarchist Dave
BackwardLaser What if the mega brain is a mindflayer which can controll Patrons
Thumbs up!
Illithid vigilante is pure brilliance.
Glad you think so. Perhaps my next character for SuperHeroWorld.
-Nerdarchist Dave
I'll allow it.
Oh the Mindflayer, one of my all time favs. I am seriously considering running a One Shot with PC Illithids over on the OSG. I especially like your submerged Illithid mothership idea.
Yea the mindflayers is a fan favorite for sure.
-Nerdarchist Dave
I just ordered some Intellect Devourers to go with my Mindflayer so I can throw some Mindflayers at my groups. Looking forward to doing it someday.
Why wait? So some brains get eaten a DM's got minis to use, LOL. :)
-Nerdarchist Dave
*****
mico moes?
-Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy right now they haven't been worked into the story but I have an idea.
One of my favorite villains, Carbo El Diablo, was an Illithid. He was beholden to an evil, forgotten deity thus exiled from his clan. He was given the ability to gain the memories and powers of anyone he drained. When he killed the group's wizard he learned all that player's memorized spells and spell slots. He was a recurring villain in a campaign to stop his long dead deity from being resurrected. He was one of four harbingers to the god (others included a Yuan-ti, Death Knight, and a Drow).
I'm actually beginning a campaign tomorrow night using an Illithid as a PC. Spent a week doing prep work on it. Wish me luck!
In my current campaign ive combined Mindflayers and Krakens together. Similar to dragons, krakens can change form into mindflayers. This makes a horribly overpowered kraken, which can now levitate and fit through doorways!
WOW! Crazy concept, but I like. I bet your players never saw that one coming.
-Nerdarchist Dave
nice one guys. I like the idea of mixing cthulu mythos and the mindflayer and the spacehipr/plane ship idea. I also got a kick out of the Good Mindflayer idea. In Lankmar, Fritz lieber had two alien uber mages, I forget their names, but one had multiple eyes, and the other had no eyes... their alien nature seems like a fit too.
Thanks. Our objective with our dungeons and dragons monsters series is to come up with fun, interesting, and clever ways to spice up monsters that have been seeing play for decades.
-Nerdarchist Dave
So, you know how illithids reproduce right? They make little parasites in this spawning pool type thing and has them latch onto and slowly take the place of a creatures head, so this got me thinking...
How about illithid dragons and illithid beholders?
A terrifying pair of thoughts indeed.
That's already a thing, lol.
Asphyxiaphile Really? what's it called?
They were apart of d&d v3.5 Forgotten Realms, though I'm not sure which books. An illithid dragon was called a "Brainstealer Dragon" while an illithid beholder was called a "Mindwitness"
For a list of more illithid creatures check this wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illithid
Asphyxiaphile Sweet, thanks for the info man!
No problem.
This is an amazing discussion on a single amazing creature.
I'm considering a mind flayer as my first big villain in my new campaign I'm about to start. This helped a lot with how I think I might play him. I think he has been exiled from the under-dark and he is amassing an army of top dwelling monsters to either destroy his kind for his exile or try and take over the surface in order to gain favour and be welcomed back. Either way he wants to dominate the surface as a first move and I think he would be a smart enough monster to do such a thing. I like the thought of a puppeteer of sorts in the background pulling string that the PCs can discover. I'm also considering him subduing an ancient gold Dragon at some point who is actually a high ranking member of the clergy to eat his brain and steal his knowledge (which seems like a big thing for a mind flayer as dragons are quite intelligent) for the PCs to save. Haven't worked out all the details yet but, if you have any other thoughts or suggestions I would be more then happy to hear them. =)
Inspiration can come hit out of nowhere sometimes. I clicked this video because I saw Illithids.
I had a Player ask if they could be an Illithid in our new campaign, a vaguely-Anime-feel campaign where we have some oddball and fun re-skinned PCs. I of course said 'NO' instinctively, but I like to have a 'But you can do this instead...' to follow my 'NO" with, and now you guys have me rethinking how I can make them happy without them being too ridiculous. It'll take some work but by the next session I'm going to have a reskinned, reworked Illithid PC option for them.
Thanks for the inspiration guys!
Can one mindblast a thrall thats dominated? If so perhaps a wisdom check during interogation blows his head up? Perhaps a neat introduction into a mindflayer campaign?
The idea of the good Illithid reminds me of a recent Doctor Who episode with a good Dalek. Actually, I feel like Illithids and Daleks could make a terrifying team-up...
My only problem with Illithids is that the lore says that only renegades and outcasts work alone, but I sort of find a lone mind flayer more interesting than a community of them. Like all of those ideas you proposed seemed to work better with a loner. What do you think?
A lone illithid in my opinion is an operative of a larger collective. So they may be alone, but they aren't technically a lone illithid. Their peers aren't to far off. Just my opinion.
-Nerdarchist Dave
That works until the party decides to go after the collective and gets wrecked.
Ted Culbertson
We'll it gives them something to work up to.
-Nerdarchist Dave
You're right. Eventually they'll be able to take on the group.
Daleks once were mindflayers but the war changed them.
I mean, look at them. They're the crippled remains of mindflayers. Or could be.
Someone told me a story about how they got to do a campaign where they could play pretty much anything so long as it was about the same size as playable things, the DM would convert monsters to be playable races basically. And so the person I know played a Mindflayer who was completely out of it and thought he was a human, used disguise magic for appearance, except he would still eat brains so a villager would go missing every once and a while. XD
So one part of this elaborate campaign I've built for my friends involving ascended mortals as gods and Great Old Ones that long predated them that got banished and are returning actually has Illithids and Yuan-Ti both vying to gain control of a city that is the single greatest military might of the continent. It's not obvious though and they're both hidden behind layers and layers of mystery and intrigue and whichever group the party discovers first and goes out to destroy the other group will have managed to infiltrate the city government (because they'll probably be away for weeks trying to arrive at and destroy the empire) and is attempting to rebuild its lost empire. So when they return to the city most everything will seem completely normal but there will be small hints that slowly trickle in for them to find and then have to ferret out the other group and go destroy them if they want to essentially prevent the collapse of the continent. Depending on how long it takes for them to figure out depends on how far the reach and power grows.
Dave is like top 5 favorite DnD guy
I'm watching this because I'm actually rolling an Illithid for a campaign. I love those noodle faces.
Cathulu's avatars roam the world ;) Good Stuff guys!
Aberrations scream Lovecraft and thanks.
-Nerdarchist Dave
I finished a campaign in 4e a few months ago, one of the main antagonists who were collecting some material called Quintessence from humanoids, plants and ore. They are following an entity/philosophy/god named Thoon. I got the idea from the 3.5 supplement monster manual V : mind flayers of thoon.
The general idea was that Thoon was the ultimate elder brain of the race, when they won in the end of the universe and it was collapsing into itself. So Thoon created time travel because why not and sent out the mindflayers in the past to gather some quintessence and try to prevent the end of the universe by some way and in the process, still try to conquer it anyway. Never had the chance to finish it because I stopped that campaign to go to my new campaign setting of 5e.
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I vaguely remember the thoon 3.5 it's been a while though.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Consider the Mindflayer noble, the Ulitharid. This might even be a Warlock "Elder One" patron. Or you might even have a typical Mindflayer inserting himself in the life of an Elder One Warlock to "make sure" that the player stays on task.
I like the concept of a campaign where the players are caught between the machinations of an Ulitharid, a Lich and a Dragon - and only two are evil. Heck, the Ulitharid may well be evil, but his end game is to get back to the Far Realm, and the destruction og the group is "below his efforts"
No one, to my memory, has even considered an illithid posing as a female NPC. With such massive intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores, the party may well serve her goals without revealing her true nature.
There was an older Dragon/Dungeon magazine adventure from years back had the party working for an Ulitharid to end massive earthquakes generated by a lava beast of some kind. Can't remember the issue, but it was a stressful adventure.
LOL all I can think about is the illthid posing as a female npc and using a romantic interest with one of the players to manipulate them. My mind keeps going to the big reveal when that player is like "I did what, with that!"
-Nerdarchist Dave
I may have missed it, but I do not know if mindflayers actually have "a sex", but with the lack of input, there's no reason to think that they do not.
The species is an interesting one with as much depth as a villain as any vampire, lich or dragon.
Perhaps expanding the "villain" or "patron" archetypes is necessary. Mummy Lords, Beholders, Sphinxes, greater Slaad...all have the potential to be these overarching villains or patrons (in the case of Sphinxes) just like the mindflayer, death knight, lich, vampire or dragon. Discuss! :)
Mike Gould
they could be asexual in that the elder brain spawns newborns. And if there is not an elder brain then one of them begins a metamorphosis into one or perhaps there is a ritual that allows one to become one.
Nate the Nerdarch
"could be"....so...you're guessing too? ;)
Mike Gould
Polymorph is a thing so I don't think it's to far of stretch either way.
-Nerdarchist Dave
chaotic good illithid living with the Flumph and he teams up with the party to wipe out a beholder or vampireillithid.
Time for that graft arm you have been eyeing
I am thinking of doing a solo campaign with my brother where he is an Illithid captain of a ship with a beholder first mate.
Good Ilithid would probably be a crazy Mind Flayer
Best story for everyone, I was in a party with a bard who used a charm spell, can't remember which one, against a mind flayer and controlled it. The next thing from the bard mouth I will never forget, 'Do me a favor and command you thralls to attack you, and so only I can stop them from attacking you.' I completely lost it as this mind flayer essentially got beat up by his own minions, while he was controlling them and the bard just stood there, playing his guitar.
*from the bard's mouth
I would make some illithid kraken hybrid because thier under the sea but I have no clue how they would managed that.
At least they can breed brains instead of feeding you to drakes and greys
I made a mindflayer named the Grand One who lead a thieving guild and dealt with all face to face while simply wearing a face cover, and the party went crazy over who was he.
Given there hive mind would there really be varraitions or should they not all be clones of each other at least mentally ?
It'd probably be more like the Migou from CthulhuTech
It's... weird. all illithids thrive in the hum of the elder brain- their master, companion, and second opinion. a mind flayer can, and often does when on slave capturing missions, go well and away beyond the central hive of an illithid grotto. I liken their general experience to knowing that God speaks directly to you, with evidence to the point. they're fully conscious and self-aware, but they devote their goals and selves to the plots, schemes, ploys, and machinations of the elder brain, with their final reward being returned to the all-encompassing consciousness of the elder brain after the failing of their physical selves. they're all Joan of arc, except they're wholly evil and hunger for brains.
Is there a legitimate way for players to be able to use psionics?
Don't the Illithids have a prophecy about one of their own kind retaining the full personality of it's host and wiping their people out? Could make for an interesting ranger with aberrations as its racial enemy. :P
that sounds like a great idea.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy Illithid are one of my top favorite D&D monsters, right next to Liches
Nyrufa
Then illithid liches must make you giddy as a school girl.
;)
-Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy Oh yes, but they piss off the other tentacle faced horrors quite well!
I have a arcanists NPC that is good and turned to magic to find a way to sustain itself without devouring brains.
Brainstealer Dragons, when an Illithid is made with a dragon instead of a humanoid. Dear god if it still had its breath weapon "it fires mind blasts instead".
what page is the illithid on? This is 5e right?
Yes 5e. pg 221
-Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy Yeah, didn't realize this was the monster manual, thought you were in the DMG
Sebastian Ferguson
LOL you'd be looking a long time for them in there.
-Nerdarchist Dave
p.222 Mindflayer
My dm made me go up against a mindflayer once the entire time i was fighting orcs goblins and other creatures just never ending hordes up until i was about to die. i had a elf trying to stab me until everything vanished and the knife was in my hand and i was holding myself back from stabbing myself the illithid used mind control. And the dm just had me trapped in mental battle i really liked mindflayers after that lol
Did someone call for a mindflayer?
The most disturbing mind flayer abomination servitor was the one in second edition made using troglodytes, their skin became transparent and much of their muscle tissues became brain tissue you could see under their skin.
At technosis skilled i would have called for a mindsplinter reverse feed from a technosis mind-scratch after a psycic slide..$? Did you want to go for a ride
... Did he say Gay-con?
Plus they arent real but neither is thier tech but racism in reverse is real jess
I love there "Monsters" videos. Anxiously awaiting the Beholder video.
Oh he's on the list. I have a lot of fun doing them as well.
-Nerdarchist Dave