Comments on: Mind Flayers – The Illithid

By: Mark Compton

Mark Compton — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:48:00 +0000

I’ve always considered the mindflayers as worshippers of some “Great Old One” Cthulhu or the like, looking to bring them back,

By: WillofTheGods

WillofTheGods — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:43:00 +0000

In the book “Dice & Men” (Great book) the author talks about his campaign which was a Vampire Hunter D type affair, struggles against vampiric tyrants in a fallen world. It’s only a small bit of ‘flavour text’ in the book but one of the best bits was the idea the Mind Flayer city that turned out to be a last bastion of hope – the hideous tentacle psychic men were the good guys!

By: Colin McLaughlin

Colin McLaughlin — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:37:00 +0000

Good stuff. I had a player bandy about a concept of a Hexblade Warlock Mindflayer who left the hive mind and made a pact with the first silver sword. He ended up doing something different, but I loved the idea.

By: Manos Ti

Manos Ti — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:19:00 +0000

Hoa, great advice.

The final stage of our current campaign will take place in the Underdark, using the second half of OotA as a framework. It is most likely they’ll face Illithids.

Also, my little something of a setting can surely have a dark corner for intelligent Illithids.