Why is there mind flayer sex?

[Zebulon Ecthelion]

Mind flayers reproduce asexually. An elder brain produces parasites that burrow into a host's brain and slowly turns them into a new mind flayer. This fact is central to the main plot of the game. I don't know if mind flayers are even supposed to have sex organs, but even if they are, they certainly wouldn't have a sex drive. Why is this in the game? Is it a joke?

[Shin Dan]

mind flayers and githyanki both reproduce asexually but can have sex for pleasure like a conventional humanoid. in the case of the gith they can lay pre-fertilized eggs on command, laezel even explains this if you ask. officially speaking mind flayers as we know them are actually drones warped from their previous forms through ceremorphosis, subsequently their genetalia are also preserved and transformed in the event one must become an elder brain should it need to form its own colony. even under an elder brain's thrall an illithid is a person with desires, goals. some gamble, others read, ♥♥♥♥ thralls, eat thralls, etc. their primary reproduction method may be asexual, but they still have needs as individuals, contrary as that may seem.

but since most of you here are cowards, i'll simply go "sex bad, REEEEE-" and end my explanation there!

[Noctoculus]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Humans reproduce bisexually, and yet there is homosex. What are you not getting about that? How do you even come up with such a weird game question?

Sexually. Humans reproduce sexually. That means they have sex. Asexual reproduction does not require sex.

[Noctoculus]

Originally posted by Shin Dan:

mind flayers and githyanki both reproduce asexually but can have sex for pleasure like a conventional humanoid.

Has that actually happened in DnD before BG3?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Noctoculus:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Humans reproduce bisexually, and yet there is homosex. What are you not getting about that? How do you even come up with such a weird game question?

Sexually. Humans reproduce sexually. That means they have sex. Asexual reproduction does not require sex.

Thanks.

[PaleEnchantress]

I don't know why it's there. I am just glad it is.

[Smart Sheep]

Mind flayer reproduce asexually but they do have the concept of gender (from original host). As for drive and pleasure, it's not mentioned in any lore (of course) so it's up to DM (Larian in this case) to improvise.

[Shin Dan]

Originally posted by Noctoculus:

Originally posted by Shin Dan:

mind flayers and githyanki both reproduce asexually but can have sex for pleasure like a conventional humanoid.

Has that actually happened in DnD before BG3?

dunno, i know for mind flayers it was a thing in the drizzt novels mentioned in passing, but official sources from dnd tend to deliberately keep details vague. as a rule the dm of the setting can choose his or her interpretation of what their game's lore does or does not have, as our current dm are the writers of larian, that means the specifics of their setting's lore that doesn't contradict bg1/2's lore is canon to the game. ultimately bg1/2/3 is its own specific setting. if this is what larian went with, then thats what we're in for when playing at their table. remember that dnd is a story as much as it is a game. and the dm decides the lore of the setting while we decide where it goes.

basically, be gay, ♥♥♥♥ the emperor! or don't. im not the boss of you

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

They had tentacle porn fans on staff?...

Gives some people what they want, I guess. Is it at least strong independent side shave lesbian tentacle sex?

[Kryptic]

What is this Islam or something? I appreciate a game that isn't afraid of having full nudity and a lot of sexuality

[BigJ]

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

They had tentacle porn fans on staff?...

Gives some people what they want, I guess. Is it at least strong independent side shave lesbian tentacle sex?

Someone had something for feet too.

[ayrtep]

I assume its explained somewhere?

My guess is that a male fertilises the female, who then generates lots of tadpoles which she places in suitable hosts.

They sound a bit like Parasitoid wasps[en.wikipedia.org] .

[Nepnep]

Originally posted by Naram-Sin:

Mind flayers reproduce asexually. An elder brain produces parasites that burrow into a host's brain and slowly turns them into a new mind flayer. This fact is central to the main plot of the game. I don't know if mind flayers are even supposed to have sex organs, but even if they are, they certainly wouldn't have a sex drive. Why is this in the game? Is it a joke?

Because the sexual mind flayer is a human. A potentially very manipulative one.

Also lets be honest here. The entire staff are perverts.

[Rusty Shackelford]

Originally posted by Gabe Itch:

What is this Islam or something? I appreciate a game that isn't afraid of having full nudity and a lot of sexuality

I want my Saudi Arabia version!

[mikey]

Originally posted by DasWulf:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Because it's funny.

Only if you are a juvenile perhaps.

Yikes

[JasonJove]

So that you can have sex with a mind flayer dude.

I swear people need to think a little before making some of these posts…