Do mind flayers

[PocketYoda]

Even work like that? Taking over a human like a daemon in Warhammer? I thought they were just a creature with Psychic powers..

[peremptor]

It would suck if you where able to lose a party member to this conversion process in game though.

[Borgelin]

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_flayer

[Sly Boots]

I wish Larian would make a special type of Mind Flayers...

https://monstergirlencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mindflayer

[Witch ~]

Originally posted by peremptor:

It would suck if you where able to lose a party member to this conversion process in game though.

Wasnt that the case already with traps turning members to stone

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Sly Boots:

I wish Larian would make a special type of Mind Flayers...

https://monstergirlencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mindflayer

Yes i'd let her take me over lol

[Toaster Maximus]

Originally posted by Mighty Biscuit:

Sorta.

Mind Flayers, or Illithid, are a species of psionic -things- from a realm beyond space and time called the Far Realm. Their life cycle is three stage. Stage 1: Larval. They start out as tad poles in a giant brine pool full of tadpoles and are forced to fight eachother over scant food resources until they are big enough for the second stage.

Stage 2: A full grown ilithid plucks the 3-4 inch long tadpole and places it on the head of a restrained humanoid prisoner. The tadpole then munches its way into the head of the prisoner and over the course of days consumes the brain and gestates into a skull bursting monstrosity you see. The actual Mind Flayer is just the head, having jacked into the remaining nervous system of the former prisoner, piloting it like a fleshy mech suit.

Stage 3: 99% of mindflayers never reach this point. Over the course of a mind flayer's life, they must consume the grey matter of an intelligent being in order to sustain their own mental powers. If an illithid lives long enough, it can be selected by the colony's resident galalaxy brained leader, the Elder Brain to go off and form a new colony with a new Elder Brain. The chosen Mind Flayer takes a portion of the existing colony, travels -far- away and sits down in a big old brine pool and just kinda lets the flesh suit shluff off, revealing the pulsating and growing brain that will grow into a massive, super intelligent psionic becon that will lead this new colony of mind flayers.

The process we saw was an accelerated version of stage 2. the process, known as Cerebromorphis, usually takes weeks. This will be a plot point in BG3.

Why I am looking forward to this game beings from the far realm is right up the devs ally based on their past games, can't wait to see if we get more from that realm....cause normally when their is something like this more then them show up....but love that you know the stages so well

[KKylon]

Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

No they don't. This is some QUALITY writing it looks like. I sure do love when dumb writers throw established lore away for their stupid hollywood movie tier plots!

if this was actual lore: githyanki immediately notice mind flayers above ground and launch an invasion to kill every last one of them.

Kuraudo buddy chill out. This loks like a great game that we have in the works here. The game play trailer and story lines feels like it has been pulled strait from the Dungeon Masters Guide and Monster Manual. It certainly feels more engaging that the illithid content in Baldur's Gate 2. I love that game and have played countless housr in that world. It has it's own takes and views on established 2nd edition lore.

I think that Larian has the right to make changes. I've seen some pretty cool/crazy stuff in the Dungeons and Dragon universe. Warlocks have patrons that can just mess with the fabric of reality. Illithid are from the same place as some of these guys. They once ruled the universe that Dungeons and Dragons is in. We don't know what the full extent of their powers were. They are powerful enough to survive the gythyanki attacks that nearly wiped them out.

Like most things in Dungeons and Dragons it comes down to personal taste and individual creativity. When I Dungeon Master I expect my players to be engaged and respectful to the content that we create. If they cant do that then I don't want them at my table.

If you don't like Larians take them maybe you don't really fit in at this gaming table? It's totally fair to have an opinion. Maybe just temper it?

[Gunslinger]

Yer you tell that person from almost a year ago to chill out

[RocketMan]

Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

The super jedi are the githrazi; the githyanki are more like evil space knights to the githrazi's space wizards.

Another problem: in actual 5e, Ithilids are complete pushovers, so expect to see ultralithid's everywhere for some reason due to <insert dumb plot device here> (assuming their claim that the game is based on actual 5e isn't empty).

I'm grumpy because I wanted something closer to what we'd see in an adventure module (say Tomb of Annihilation) which maintains the high stakes that video game developers insist on putting into their games (as we see here with, "You thought Baal was bad?! GUESS WHAT WE UPPED THE ANTE WITH SUPER ITHILIDS!") without drastically changing the world logic.

also: the cool giant worm thing which would make the trailer cooler that someone mentioned is a called a neolithid.

I mean, tbf, DnD encourages you to make and mash monsters together. That's half the fun of dnd.

These mindflayers will be at war, so it shouldn't be too uncommon to see them with class ranks or stronger versions than the typical.

[SIlverblade-T-E]

Neothelids are usually "total party wipe" beasties, muhaha!
REAL nasty, yikes!

Folk should read
"THE ILLITHIAD", superb 2nd ed AD&D book full of lore etc on the mind flayers :)

Gotta luv Spelljammer, cause even high lvl characters poop their panties at times 'cause they may bump into entire FLEETS of mind flayers, or beholders....or...Witch Light Marauders....