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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Awareness. The mind flayer has advantage on initiative rolls and can’t be surprise;surprised as long as it doesn’t have the incapacitated condition.
Magic Resistance. The mind flayer has
", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Extract Brain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one Humanoid grappled by the mind flayer. Hit: 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Extract
Mind Lash
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In the hands of a creature other than a mind flayer, a mind lash functions as a normal whip. In the hands of an illithid, this magic weapon strips away a creature’s will to survive as it also
strips away flesh, dealing an extra 2d4 psychic damage to any target it hits.
Any creature that takes psychic damage from the mind lash must also succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
addition to feasting on brains, a mind flayer clairvoyant can summon tentacles that rip through the fabric of reality and distort the minds of enemies.
Mind Flayers
Mind flayers, also known as
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the mind flayer fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The mind flayer has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their heightened intelligence for as long as the swarm persists. The swarm also awakens latent psionic abilities implanted within each cranium rat by its mind flayer creators, bestowing upon the swarm
creature, often referring to itself using the collective pronouns “we” and “us.”
Some mind flayer colonies use cranium rats as spies. The rats invade communities and act as
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constituents. The rats become smarter as a result, and retain their heightened intelligence for as long as the swarm persists. The swarm also awakens latent psionic abilities implanted within each cranium
rat by its mind flayer creators, bestowing upon the swarm psionic powers.
A single cranium rat uses its natural telepathy to communicate hunger, fear, and other base emotions. A swarm of cranium rats
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it has a psychic link. The elder brain breaks the creature’s concentration on a spell it has cast. The creature also takes 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Break
, attack rolls, and saving throws until the end of the creature’s next turn.
Tentacle (Costs 2 Actions). The elder brain makes one Tentacle attack.The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination
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","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Pseudopod","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.An oblex devours memories not only to sustain its existence, but also to spawn new oblexes. Each time it fully drains
plunders the creature’s mind, leaving its prey befuddled and confused—or dead.
When oblexes feed on thoughts, they can form weird copies of their prey to use as lures, which helps them harvest even more victims for their mind flayer masters.
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
magical.
Special Equipment. Nellik’s greataxe is a flayer slayer (see appendix B).Multiattack. Nellik makes two melee attacks, or she makes one melee attack and teleports before or after the attack
wound also closes if the target receives magical healing.
Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Greataxe"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target
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telekinetically moved up to 30 feet in any direction. The mindwitness can also exert fine control on objects with this ray, such as manipulating a simple tool or opening a door or a container.If a beholder is
to a mind flayer’s. The mindwitness is psychically imprinted with devotion to the elder brain and submission to illithid commands.
A mindwitness’s primary function is to improve telepathic
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, or unconscious condition on itself. While one of the psurlon’s heads is asleep, its other head is awake.Multiattack. The psurlon makes two Bite attacks and two Claw attacks. It can also use
abilities to infiltrate the settlements of their intended victims.
On the Material Plane, psurlons have been known to work with mind flayer;mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the
Elder Brain
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"} psychic damage. The psychic link also ends if the target and the elder brain are more than 5 miles apart, with no consequences to the target. The elder brain can form psychic links with up to ten
that loom large in its mind (including things the target worries about, loves, or hates). The elder brain can also make a Charisma (Deception) check with advantage to deceive the target’s mind
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randomly. The replaced tooth vanishes, and you lose the implanted effect.
Recovering Teeth. Once all the teeth have vanished, their pouch also vanishes. The pouch with all the teeth then appears in
dawn. You gain the following flaw: “When I see wickedness in action, I must oppose it.”
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Beyond the Rock of Bral (silver mind flayer tooth)
2 mind flayer;mind flayers
You gain
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the wisdom to
flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in
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. They also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the
mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight
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hands of a creature other than a mind flayer, a mind lash functions as a normal whip. In the hands of an illithid, this magic weapon strips away a creature’s will to survive as it also strips away
Mind Flayer Magic Items Some mind flayer colonies have developed the ability to create or modify certain kinds of gear, imbuing them with psionic energy. Mind flayers craft magic items that only they
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vulnerable to attack from their enemies. They use the brains of such creatures as food, of course, but they also need sentient humanoids to propagate. Food for Thought When a mind flayer devours a brain, it
acquires stray memories from its victim and shares them with the other members of its colony. Mind flayers also receive a degree of sustenance from the physical substance of a brain, but subsist
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picked, but a knock spell or similar magic also opens a door. Magic wards in the room prevent any creature from teleporting into or out of it. Marquox A mind flayer named Marquox uses its levitate
level 15 are with the party, they refuse to help the mind flayer and insist that the characters kill it. If the characters choose Marquox over them, the githzerai abandon the party and withdraw to level
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
32. Graduation Chamber Githyanki who attain the rank of warrior by hunting down and killing their first mind flayer are celebrated here. This cavern is also used for demonstrations of githyanki
stained with pools of dry blood.
Altar. An 8-foot-high, rune-etched stone altar is situated in an alcove. It’s topped with a life-size statue of a dagger-wielding githyanki warrior slaying a mind flayer
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other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds. They also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer
. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that
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Mind Flayer Mind flayers, also called illithids, are the scourge of sentient creatures across countless worlds. Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers, they are insidious
. Like physical extensions of the illithid’s thoughts, these thralls interpose themselves between the mind flayer and its foes, sacrificing their lives so that their master can escape. Hive Mind Colonies
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also sees itself as a savior of the mind flayer race and a living memorial that preserves the memories of the mind flayers’ prey. By its twisted logic, humanoids whose brains are devoured by the colony
The Elder Brain Mind flayers use telepathy to communicate with each other and with other creatures. Among their own kind, they form a network of minds. Each mind flayer is an individual node of the
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stalactite hangs above a pit filled with silvery mist. Encased in the stalactite is Ilmei, a female githyanki gish (see appendix A for statistics; see also “Crystal Stalactites”).
Guards. Around the pit
information). 2b. Dragon Engravings The walls of this chamber are engraved with images of armored githyanki knights riding red dragons. 2c. Illithid Heads Twelve severed mind flayer heads are mounted on the
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groups, and their fear and despair in the face of a mind flayer incursion make their brains tasty to the illithid palate. They are also relatively easy for larger, stronger humanoid thralls to control
Mind Flayer Thralls Mind flayers never truly ally with any creatures. They either attempt to seize control of a population by subverting its leaders, or they use psionics to dominate a humanoid and
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Other Rewards If the characters helped solve the murder mystery aboard the Concordant Express, the mind flayer detective Ignatius Inkblot uses its plane shift spell to deliver a wrapped parcel to the
characters several days later. The parcel contains a token of the illithid’s esteem: a masterfully crafted magnifying glass worth 1,000 gp. Characters can also leverage any true names they learn into
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Plane in the city of Tu’narath, a metropolis built on and in the corpse of a deity. Vlaakith commands the loyalty of the githyanki from her personal stronghold, Susurrus, also called the Palace of
. It is crafted from mind flayer skulls and extremities, and the cushion she sits on is made of leather produced from the cured remains of an elder brain. A grand statue of Gith, an obsidian monument over 100 feet tall, stands beside the palace.
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Wandering Monsters The magical emanations of the Runestone attract earth-dwelling creatures such as bulettes, earth elementals, purple worms, and xorn to this level. The characters might also come
tentacles that serves as an arcane focus (10 gp), as well as a spellbook bound in mind flayer skin that contains all the spells he has prepared.
Orc
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raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that the
. It is also not unheard of for an exceptionally strong and charismatic evil human to lead stray orcs that no longer have a tribe to call their own.
When Tribes Team Up
An orc tribe typically has no
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). He will also tell them an Undermountain secret, determined by drawing a random card from the Secrets Deck (see appendix C). Spite upholds his end of the deal only as long as it’s to his benefit, and
them. Cephalossk the Mind Flayer Cephalossk is a solitary mind flayer arcanist (see the sidebar in the “Mind Flayer” entry in the Monster Manual). It is a pariah among its own kind, has no allies at the
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amethyst dragons are fascinated by the existence of other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds. They also prize understanding
Realm and any creatures warped by its touch. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind flayer;mind flayers and
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harm. The townspeople promise to keep the infected villagers safe until some cure can be found. (They don’t know that the only cure is defeating the mind flayer fanatics.) Once the chaos from the
elongated. In the dim light, it’s easy to mistake them for a mind flayer. Wheel-of-Fortune is suffering no other effects. They are here in the dark because any light brighter than candlelight causes them
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Elder Brain The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination, an elder brain sprawls within a vat of viscous brine, cared for by mind flayer minions as it touches the thoughts of creatures near and
flayer servants don’t bring meals directly to it, the elder brain reaches out with tendrils of thought, compelling creatures to come to it so that it can feed on them. When a mind flayer perishes, the
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is a mind flayer arcanist (see the sidebar in the “Mind Flayer” entry in the Monster Manual) with 111 hit points. It uses a crystal orb as an arcane focus and dresses in pirate garb. A wooden peg
deck. N’ghathrod carries a rapier as an affectation but it not proficient with the weapon.
Before it turned to a life of space piracy, N’ghathrod lived in a mind flayer colony on the ringed planet of
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, taking over a victim’s body on behalf of its mind flayer masters. Illithid Creations. Mind flayers breed intellect devourers to serve as roaming hunters of the Underdark, creating an intellect
flayer
Intellect Devourer
Tiny aberration, lawful evil
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 21 (6d4 + 6)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
6 (−2)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
13 (+1)
INT
12 (+1
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
watchful eyes. The githzerai are aware that githyanki have conquered the Crystal Labyrinth (level 16) and are waging war against a mind flayer colony in Seadeeps (level 17). The githzerai wait patiently to
githyanki, but also to the younger githzerai zerths who follow him. Yrlakka is concerned because his most headstrong pupil, a githzerai named Ezria, has disappeared. He fears (correctly) that Ezria was captured by the githyanki on level 16 while trying to find weak spots in their defenses.
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Menthis Plateau. Daask also keeps its headquarters in Khyber’s Gate. In the depths of the Cogs, inquisitive work can blend seamlessly into dungeon-delving adventure. While investigating strange
occurrences among the refugees from Cyre in High Walls (in Lower Tavick’s Landing), characters might find clues that draw them down to the Citadel of the Closed Circle in Khyber’s Gate, where a mind flayer