Cool. Would they work for anyone for like money or something?

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Cool. Would they work for anyone for like money or something?

If I had to guess, since they are typically subservient to illithids I would say probably not.

I'd say it's up to you though, there's no reason a few grimlock couldn't have defected.

They are pretty much cannibal cavemen. If you see any scenario, in which one can make cannibal cavemen tribe work for him, then the answer to your question is yes.

They may not value gold all that much. Maybe it’s shiny beads? Metal tools? Hapless humanoids to eat? Spices that go well with an elf stew?

I’ve ran an adventure, where a low-tier necromancer was using them as mooks. He would take human sacrifices and trinkets from local villagers to “protect” them from Grimlocks amongst other things. 
Also, not a great encounter for level 1 party as they tend to one-hit anybody who isn’t a martial.

Thanks. That was quite awhile ago, but I think a few Orcs hired them to destroy a village. Not sure what their exact payment was, but if their cannibalistic cavemen, I think eating the people in the village would probably be payment enough.

also, they were 5th level, and there was a few of them and a few Orcs in the final encounter. 

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Cool. Would they work for anyone for like money or something?

Yes, absolutely

The value of gold is little bit lost on them, but you could easily get them on your side with payment of meat and trinkets, just like with orcs.

their blind can barely talk so i'd say no they wouldn't value gold in the slightest bit

Me Grimlock monstrous cannibal. 

like the transformer?

Rolled a nat 20 on persuasion, became kind of about 20 of these lmfao 

I have literally never seen or heard of this creature before. Neat, definitely a very interesting stat block. If I ever have my players go to the Underdark, this'll definitely be used. For anyone else, you probably shouldn't use this creature on a level one party, because they do enough damage in one hit to one-shot the average party member. I also like how grimlocks are pretty much the only humanoid to be their own race entirely. Like, pretty much everything else is either (any race) or (gnome), etc, but this is just this. 

It's a jhonka! Please tell me someone gets that reference...

Your world - your imagination,  So would they? 

Haha I get the reference. Great movie. Loved the mosquito scene.

If you're worried about damage reduce their CR to like about ⅛ the reduce to hit bonus by like 1 and get rid of the piercing damage, they'd still be a heavy hitter but this should make them a little more bearable for 1st LVs, please correct me if I'm wrong

Also nobody has looked at these things for about a year no matter what statblock. Kinda makes me a tiny bit sad :.(

its the Morlocks from The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells.