Mind Flayer

[blzbob]

I had to redo the mind flayer because I lost everything when my computer died. I have now added the rest of the illithids and magic items from Lords of Madness and the brain golem from the Fiend Folio.

[RavenX]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Sorry I didn't get back to you.

That can't be all the racial specials you've added - don't mindflayers also have abilities for grabbing and brain-sucking? The abilities you've listed are only spell-like abilities, and there's probably something else adding that random piece of text.

That is correct, Mathias, they do indeed get those. Mind-flayers have a particularly nasty knack for grabbing an opponent and devouring its brain in front of the rest of the party. One of my players died in that way, in Khyber. The Psionicist made the mistake of getting into a grappling contest with a Mindflayer, and did not have the escape artist result to get away before his brain was eaten. The rest of the party was too busy fighting the party's fighter at the time to save the Psion. Which is another point, Mind Flayers have the Thrall ability too.

[diamondb]

I'm trying my own hand at a Mind Flayer build, what are y'all using for the Mind Blast ability?

[zarberg]

I'm kind of a newbie to Hero Lab, how are you creating the Illithids? Does it involve scripting?

[zarberg]

I tried my hand at race creation with a mind flayer today and it was not bad at all - a little confusion with the overall hit dice/level adjustment/CR items and how they apply to SR based on hit dice/class levels, but once I figured that out it wasn't bad at all. Having been a long time Perl scripter, things aren't hard to pick up at all.