![]() ![]() I want to re-inject some of the respect for the normal illithids into this version. Which is less interesting than the original 70s and 80s version, where it was a species made up entirely of evil masterminds. The combination of controlled by elder brains and the ever-increasing emphasis on ceremorphosis makes the mind flayers feel like the Borg. That makes the basic illithid into a minion and a drone. At least, not as they are typically interpreted, as the masters of a hivemind of unquestioningly obeying illithids. Namely, I don’t like the elder brain very much. My take on the mind flayers is going to be, like many of my versions of D&D monsters, somewhat iconoclastic. ![]() And I had been contemplating the illithidae as my next D&D monster project for a while, since I was commissioning art for the modron hierarchs. Why the change? Well, Wizards accidentally (on purpose?) released a bunch of previously Product Identity monsters into the Creative Commons, including the mind flayers. [While the OGL 1.1 debacle was going on, I said that I was going to keep my distance with Wizards’ IP for a while. “Elder Brain Variant” © Wizards of the Coast, by Nino Is. ![]()
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