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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
2/day each: cure wounds (8th-level version), hold person
1/day each: divination, sending, word of recallStar
visitors. Over the eons, astral elves have clashed with numerous invaders, including psurlons, mind flayers, and githyanki. When dealing with others, astral elves customarily cover their faces with
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20):
1/day each: dissonant whispers, hold monster, meld into stone, telekinesis, teleportThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from
creature can outsmart my defenses—if they do, they obviously cheated.
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Any creature that can hold their own against me must teach me how—whether they want to or not.
7
I
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
). The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
1/day each: dissonant whispers, hold person, meld
over a pile of gold any day.
5
No creature can outsmart my defenses—if they do, they obviously cheated.
6
Any creature that can hold their own against me must teach me how&mdash
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aberrations (such as beholders and mind flayers) and undead (such as zombies and vampires). Druids sometimes lead raids against such creatures, especially when the monsters encroach on the druids&rsquo
druids count them all (even the violent ones) as worthy of veneration.
The druids of Eberron hold animistic beliefs completely unconnected to the Sovereign Host, the Dark Six, or any of the other
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
that can hold their own against me must teach me how—whether they want to or not.
7
I cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented
defense—until someone bests the dragon’s security measures.
3
A sapphire dragon seeks adventurers to lead into battle against the mind flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
hold stone dishes and tankards. Some of the dishware contains globs of edible gray slime. (The mind flayers use these dishes to bring food to prisoners in area 10.)
Wall of Force. The rubble-strewn
passage to area 8a is blocked by an invisible wall of force that is generated from area 16c.
The mind flayers gained control of two scaladar (see appendix A) and implanted duergar brains in them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Karontor’s Hold Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to Karontor’s Hold or to give them missions to pursue there. Amplified Intrusion A fomorian deep crawler (see chapter 6
) lurking in the hold has designs on the Forest Crystal (in this chapter), seeking to corrupt it and use its magic to spread the Far Realm intrusion. While some of its minions—creatures from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Mind Flayers Deep in the Underdark, a githyanki vanguard force attacked a large colony of mind flayers controlled by an elder brain. Fearing the colony’s destruction, the elder brain instructed its
most loyal vassal, an ulitharid called Extremiton, to establish a splinter colony somewhere safe from githyanki incursions. Extremiton made its way to Undermountain with a group of mind flayers, laid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Nautiloids Mind flayers employ bizarre flying ships called nautiloids. Able to move through the Astral Plane, nautiloids can also transport mind flayers between the various worlds of the Material
Plane. A nautiloid looks like an enormous conch shell fitted with an exterior deck and a large mass of rubbery tentacles. Ages ago, when the mind flayers could fly through the worlds of the Material
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
1/day each: dissonant whispers, hold monster, meld into stone, telekinesisThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one
they do, they obviously cheated.
6
Any creature that can hold their own against me must teach me how—whether they want to or not.
7
I cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
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
resided in the Underdark. Psionic Commanders. Mind flayers possess psionic powers that enable them to control the minds of creatures such as troglodytes, grimlocks, quaggoths, and ogres. Illithids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
into the room. Being quite intelligent, the oblex can absolutely hold a conversation with the gith using this form. Objectives/Goals The elder oblex is a creation of the mind flayers and brought here to
supports the mind flayers’ objectives in their mission to subjugate the gith. Playing the Pillars COMBAT
If the duergar from the other side of the portal are pursuing the adventurers, the elder oblex
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
was shattered during the Daelkyr War, when armies of mind flayers, beholders, and other Aberrations spewed from Xoriat, the plane of delirium, and launched an overwhelming attack on Khorvaire. Though
; ancient relics there might hold the secrets of daelkyr flesh-warping, Gatekeeper planar spells, or the military magic of the Dhakaani. Expeditions into Dhakaani ruins tend toward heroic fantasy. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
10. Detention Facility The mind flayers use this detention facility to hold “cattle” — the term they use to describe humanoids they consider a food source. The door to the cell block is made of stone
flayers to lure other grimlocks to the colony to have their brains devoured. Ahpok has been unable to leave the colony in recent weeks because of the githyanki, so the illithids have stationed her here
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Flowing designs decorate the walls. Lounging against the south wall are two mind flayers, their face tentacles periodically gesticulating.
Two mind flayers named Shalghast and Ulthundul guard this room
while engaging in telepathic conversation, but they aren’t expecting an attack. The fanatics have told the mind flayers to expect surface cultists, such as the aberrant zealots who reside elsewhere in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
nourish ten Medium creatures for five days, as well several barrels of pickled brains floating in brine (food for the mind flayers). Treasure. A search of the human corpses in the cargo hold turns up a
a derelict,” she says, pointing out its stripped weaponry and broken hull. “If there were mind flayers aboard, they would’ve attacked us by now. Looks like somebody’s already picked it over. Still
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, orcs that dwell in the mines of a ruined dwarf citadel might skirmish constantly against the hobgoblins that hold the citadel’s upper tiers. Mind flayers that have established a colony in the lowest
against each other to reduce the threat of the more powerful monsters. For example, in a dungeon inhabited by mind flayers and their goblinoid thralls, the adventurers might try to incite the goblins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
burst, and the giant immediately melts into a 15-foot-square puddle of radiation. S33c: North Cargo Hold. A githyanki knight and five githyanki warriors search this cargo hold for mind flayers. The
disappointment and depart without another word. If the characters disrespect the githyanki or are caught lying about the mind flayers, the githyanki attack. S33d: West Cargo Hold. Ten gas spores grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
other activity in the community ceased; the forges grew cold, and the temples to Moradin stood empty. Every dwarf old enough to hold a pick or shovel worked the mines. The dwarves relentlessly dug
flayers waited there, ready to take the next step in the subjugation of clan Duergar. The monsters had sent out a psychic lure that played on the dwarves’ greed, and the never-ending work schedule that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
prey into danger or to infiltrate settlements so they can feed on superior victims. Mind flayers unleash all manner of foul experiments upon the planes with little thought for the consequences. Here
, requiring no components:
3/day each: charm person (as 5th-level spell), color spray, detect thoughts, hold person (as 3rd-level spell)
Sulfurous Impersonation. As a bonus action, the oblex can extrude a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Room. The goblins used the west wing of the sanctum to hold their kidnap victims. Most of the victims were transported elsewhere to serve as “offerings for the gods” (or food for the mind flayers), but
crystal loses its light and becomes mundane. The message that plays for the characters upon Ruxithid’s demise is the mind flayers’ last command to him: find and deliver the three other obelisk shards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
result of cruel experiments on dwarves by mind flayers. Like duergar, the derro were a slave race to the mind flayers, but eventually freed themselves. Born to Madness. The process of their creation
Strength modifier + the wielder’s proficiency bonus. The derro also use a light repeating crossbow fitted with a cartridge that can hold up to six crossbow bolts. This weapon is similar to a light crossbow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Storeroom Shelves and racks in this storeroom hold iron bars of various lengths.
The heavy bars were raw materials for the duergar workshop, left here once the duergar started relying on mithral
are of duergar make. A character proficient in History also realizes the duergar clan that once used these marks is long gone, overwhelmed by mind flayers many generations ago. G3: Cage Workshop Stamps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Adult Oblex An oblex is an ooze created by mind flayers, capable of assaulting the minds of other creatures. Older oblexes, called adults and elders, have eaten so many memories that they can form
). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
3/day each: charm person (as 5th-level spell), color spray, detect thoughts, hold person (as 3rd-level spell)
Sulfurous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Ballista. This weapon is inoperable since the crash. N2. Cargo Hold Attached to the walls in this chamber are three sets of chains and manacles designed to hold large creatures. A staircase rises to the
, and Zglarrd) are supposed to be cleaning up the cargo hold but are just pushing junk around and annoying Dredavex’s flesh golem. Unless one of the gnome ceremorphs is leading the party through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Flayers Three members of the horrific illithid family appear here, joining the regular mind flayer in the Monster Manual.
Alhoon Mind flayers that pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them
no eternal communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers a way to escape the permanency of death, but that path is long and solitary. Alhoons are mind flayers that use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Thousand-Year War that devastated their ancient empires millennia ago. Even for such long-lived creatures, twenty-five thousand years is a long time to hold a grudge. In your world, there might never have
, and the two peoples maintain a sense of mutual respect. War of the Ancients Jabari Weathers When giants hold up the sky, what happens
when dragons decide to make the sky fall? You might also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
wide entryway, framed by slowly undulating tentacles. The arches over this area form a high ceiling. Chains dangle from the ceiling and hold glowing, violet orbs.
Four or Five Fragments. If the
mind flayers acquired only four or five obelisk fragments, Chishinix sulks here, feeding treats to her severed head. She recognizes the characters’ arrival as a problem and tries to delay them with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Daelkyr The daelkyr are the lords of madness and the emissaries of Xoriat, who invaded Eberron with a host of mind flayers, beholders, and other foul aberrations. Wherever they walked, the daelkyr
champions of Dhakaan fought fiercely. But in the end, it was the orc Gatekeeper druids who closed the portals to Xoriat and drove the daelkyr into Khyber. The Gatekeepers crafted seals to hold both
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
also avoid Netherskull. The githzerai leader, Yrlakka, is a father figure to the others and serves as their mentor. They attack mind flayers and their thralls on sight, but all other creatures are
floor show evidence of stone furnishings long since removed.
Characters who hold bright light sources in this room or make a lot of noise alert the githzerai in area 24c, who remain where they are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
along with them. Knights often emerge from planar travel astride the backs of red dragons, which have been serving the githyanki as allies ever since their time of enslavement under the mind flayers
rolls made with it. While you hold the sword, you have advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws, you are immune to being charmed, and you have resistance to psychic damage. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
outpost. The entrance was sealed away by the mind flayers (who despised the hot spring), but the goblins have since unearthed it, though the entrance is still hidden in area Z5. The hot spring is 15
in the mind flayers’ takeover. The ashenwights are hostile and attack immediately. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlook a churning lava sea. Three large, blackened anvils stand in a row, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
descends deeper underground. Several landings on the staircase hold statues, and some bear doorways. The stairs end abruptly at a wall of tumbled boulders from some long-ago collapse.
Two galeb duhr
sparring chamber’s west and northwest walls, while three stands hold various pieces of armor to the north. Gouges in the walls indicate that this room once saw much use. A small door leads east.
People
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
hold writing in a forgotten language or symbols whose significance is lost to the ages. 20 Undead. The item incorporates symbols of death, such as bones and skulls, and it might be crafted from parts
specific location. 11–12 Sentinel. The DM chooses a kind of creature, such as mind flayers or trolls. This item glows faintly when such creatures are within 120 feet of it. 13 Songcraft. Whenever this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
find the shadow dragon in Vanrakdoom, one of the deeper levels of Undermountain, and break Shar’s hold over him. Failing that, they should put the dragon out of his misery. In exchange for their help
called an elder brain might be lurking in the dungeon. Not wanting to alarm anyone with rumors of mind flayers, he keeps this conjecture to himself for now. Durnan urges adventurers to find the source






