I am writing back story for my paladin and want to incorporate a dark childhood story around mindflayers and then build the oath of vengeance off of that. You know, Bruce Wayne, Batman wanting vengeance on who killed his parents type of thing.
I'm really looking for background material for mindflayers and how I might in later levels do some multi-class building to fight the beasts. Any source material you might know of would be helpful.
well since your character is gonna fight mind flayers, it might be a wise idea to try and aquire an ring of mind shielding. Other than that remember that they use psionics, not magic, so according to the lore you should be unable to use dispel magic or counterspell to counteract the effects of an mind flayer. An spell you should always have prepared is protection from evil and good, mind flayers and other psionic using abberations have a lot of effects that can charm or frighten you, and protection from evil and good can completely negate that.
As for multiclassing, for this concept you probably do not need a lot of multi classing, perhaps a few levels in divine soul sorcerer can give you abilities that comes from the divine, follows the same casting stat of charisma and you can use the subtle spell metamagic option to pretend that some of your sorcerer spells are actually psionic abilities you have learned in order to sort of "fight fire with fire", you would gain acess to the entire cleric spell list and thus you might get a few warding spells like banishment, dispel evil and good and magic circle slightly before they are available as a paladin, and the monster hunter ranger could also work out nicely. Both of these options come from xanatar's guide to everything
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i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
There is a blog and a book titled "The Monsters Know What They are Doing." This link will lead you to more ideas for how to flavor Mind Flayers as long-term antagonists.
I am writing back story for my paladin and want to incorporate a dark childhood story around mindflayers and then build the oath of vengeance off of that. You know, Bruce Wayne, Batman wanting vengeance on who killed his parents type of thing.
I'm really looking for background material for mindflayers and how I might in later levels do some multi-class building to fight the beasts. Any source material you might know of would be helpful.
thanks
Volo's Guide to Monsters contains the most information on Mind Flayers in 5E.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
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well since your character is gonna fight mind flayers, it might be a wise idea to try and aquire an ring of mind shielding. Other than that remember that they use psionics, not magic, so according to the lore you should be unable to use dispel magic or counterspell to counteract the effects of an mind flayer. An spell you should always have prepared is protection from evil and good, mind flayers and other psionic using abberations have a lot of effects that can charm or frighten you, and protection from evil and good can completely negate that.
As for multiclassing, for this concept you probably do not need a lot of multi classing, perhaps a few levels in divine soul sorcerer can give you abilities that comes from the divine, follows the same casting stat of charisma and you can use the subtle spell metamagic option to pretend that some of your sorcerer spells are actually psionic abilities you have learned in order to sort of "fight fire with fire", you would gain acess to the entire cleric spell list and thus you might get a few warding spells like banishment, dispel evil and good and magic circle slightly before they are available as a paladin, and the monster hunter ranger could also work out nicely. Both of these options come from xanatar's guide to everything
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
There is a blog and a book titled "The Monsters Know What They are Doing." This link will lead you to more ideas for how to flavor Mind Flayers as long-term antagonists.
A few levels in ranger might reach the revenge aspect. Abberations as a favored enemy might fit the theme.