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Master of Ossus wrote:Mind flayers are pieces of shit. I had to fight my way through a sewer full of them in "Baldur's Gate II."
A sewer full of mindflayers? Now that's what I call a ninja-with-fishnet situation.
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Ghost Rider wrote:Oh jeebus forgot Spelljammer's...SHIPLOADS of them.

Ugh somehow a raiding party of those bastards would make me want to develop a Nuke equal in SJ.
Better than the #*@#%@$^ Vodoni. Lycanthropes with bloodlust (think about a werewolf barbarian for a moment and tell me you don't want to change your underwear). Besides, even an nautiloid only carried about a dozen mind flayers. Yes, they're bad, but not impossible to take out.
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Mind Flayers otherwise known as Illithids. They are creatures from the underdark with tentacled heads, and psionic abilities. They eat brains and make POWERFUL mages and psionicists.
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They're available as player races in Zangband and variants thereof.
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They are available as player races in D&D as well albeit at a +8 cr adjustment
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Alyrium Denryle wrote:Mind Flayers otherwise known as Illithids. They are creatures from the underdark with tentacled heads, and psionic abilities. They eat brains and make POWERFUL mages and psionicists.
It's like Ctulhu.
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Xisiqomelir wrote:
Crayz9000 wrote:
Oh, great. A newbie who has a mind flayer for an avatar.
Well, I lurked at PA for a long time, so I thought it would be better to jump in and start posting rather than to inflict a "Hi, I'm new" thread on the board.
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Darth Wong wrote:What the fuck is a mind flayer?
Thanks for the sig :)

As succintly as possible, illithids, or mind flayers, are a hermaproditic bipedal cephaloid race. They are of average human height, have three-fingered hands with an opposable thumb, have webbed feet with two lobes, and their heads resemble an octopus with four tentacles. They have a wide variety of psychic powers, the "mind flayer" part coming about because they can assume total control other sentient life with these powers.

And no, I will not bring D&D into the Vs. debates, because a 200GT TL is clearly "the winnah!" ;)
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Xisiqomelir wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:What the fuck is a mind flayer?
Thanks for the sig :)

As succintly as possible, illithids, or mind flayers, are a hermaproditic bipedal cephaloid race. They are of average human height, have three-fingered hands with an opposable thumb, have webbed feet with two lobes, and their heads resemble an octopus with four tentacles. They have a wide variety of psychic powers, the "mind flayer" part coming about because they can assume total control other sentient life with these powers.

And no, I will not bring D&D into the Vs. debates, because a 200GT TL is clearly "the winnah!" ;)
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