If a mind flayer phase shifts, would it lose control of it's thralls? I'm running a session where a mind flayer has been terrorizing a town and people have gone missing. The mind flayer even takes control of one of the PCs. If the players do enough damage to the mind flayer, he is going to phase shift to escape. Does that mean that any of the thralls (the people that are missing from the town) would become themselves again?
Not seeing where Mind Flayer has anything called phase shift. It does have access to Plane Shift which, I would rule, take it out of its 120 ft. Telepathy range to control its thralls.
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Which set of lore are you using for the Mindflayer Thralls?
I've found two options:
(1) The Thrall is essentially braindead. Without active direction, they fall into a coma.
(2) The Thrall is psychically "washed" and "rebuilt". This would essentially make them an entirely different creature. Even without active control, they are still thralls and are still loyal to their masters.
Which set of lore are you using for the Mindflayer Thralls?
I've found two options:
(1) The Thrall is essentially braindead. Without active direction, they fall into a coma.
(2) The Thrall is psychically "washed" and "rebuilt". This would essentially make them an entirely different creature. Even without active control. They are still thralls and are still loyal to their masters.
That's the only set of lore I've seen either, but it seems like OP is running a home-brew so maybe it's something a bit different.
Since it sounds like a homebrew campaign, you can decide how the mind flayer's abilities work in your world.
There are many abilities which will not work between planes. But since the general lore of mind flayers (?) is that they travel between the planes, maybe their control does remain across planes.
Thralls which have been taken recently might not have had their brains completely emptied, so might be released if the control is released.
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If a mind flayer phase shifts, would it lose control of it's thralls? I'm running a session where a mind flayer has been terrorizing a town and people have gone missing. The mind flayer even takes control of one of the PCs. If the players do enough damage to the mind flayer, he is going to phase shift to escape. Does that mean that any of the thralls (the people that are missing from the town) would become themselves again?
Not seeing where Mind Flayer has anything called phase shift. It does have access to Plane Shift which, I would rule, take it out of its 120 ft. Telepathy range to control its thralls.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
Plane Shift is what I meant, thanks!
Which set of lore are you using for the Mindflayer Thralls?
I've found two options:
(1) The Thrall is essentially braindead. Without active direction, they fall into a coma.
(2) The Thrall is psychically "washed" and "rebuilt". This would essentially make them an entirely different creature. Even without active control, they are still thralls and are still loyal to their masters.
That's the only set of lore I've seen either, but it seems like OP is running a home-brew so maybe it's something a bit different.
Since it sounds like a homebrew campaign, you can decide how the mind flayer's abilities work in your world.
There are many abilities which will not work between planes. But since the general lore of mind flayers (?) is that they travel between the planes, maybe their control does remain across planes.
Thralls which have been taken recently might not have had their brains completely emptied, so might be released if the control is released.