The Illithid Foundation [Archive] - Wizards Community

The Illithid Foundation [Archive] - Wizards Community

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baneofkobolds
07-17-03, 09:03 PM First I'd like to say that my other foundation is still welcoming members. Second I am unsure if there are any foundations dedicated to Illithids but I wanted to start one.

The first request I have from anyone who wants to join is a Half-Illithid template. I would like it to be basically like half-celestials, half-fiends, half-dragons, etc. a template to show that the creature is an offspring of the base creature and an Illithid. I would like it to have tentacles and an extract ability most of all. This would of course make the result an abberation. i have no experience in the making of templates and therefore need this help.

Anything else Illithid related is welcome too.:D
Kevmann
07-17-03, 09:06 PM Look in the Fiend Folio, it has the half-illithid template and even shows the secret information on how illithid's reproduce!
baneofkobolds
07-17-03, 09:08 PM Thanks. Looks like theres some more money gone in the great D&D cause!:D
Dave1001
07-17-03, 09:34 PM I would join, as I like the concept of brain-eating squids. but the whole 'no weapon or armor proficiency' Savage Species thing kind of kills it for me.
baneofkobolds
07-18-03, 05:57 PM Glad to have you aboard mate!

Brain-Eating Intelligent Bipedal Squid With Hands appealed to me too.:D
Mongoose4937
07-26-03, 09:51 PM I too shall join, for brains are full of juicy goodness. I have eaten the brains of many adventurers through my Monsters, and I have always secretly desired a place where this would not be frowned upon. Those who oppose us shall need to make many DC17 will saves.
baneofkobolds
07-27-03, 01:54 PM eating brains is fun welcome aboard
Delfedd
07-27-03, 02:17 PM click the "here" below, so you to can eat brains!
Illithid #164
08-23-03, 09:24 PM I'd like to join. Any species with an average IQ of 210, thought reading and the ability to knock out people who **** you off with a psionic glare is fine by me. And if you follow it with vigorous brain eating (cooked medium-rare in butter sause), all the better.

(You can find out if annoying people's brains taste different from, like, other brains you may have ate recently.)
BladeVenom
08-23-03, 10:33 PM All hail Cthulhu.
Mongoose4937
08-24-03, 06:53 PM Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Ftaghn!
Jontg
10-26-03, 10:44 PM Hello, fellow brain connoisseurs--Jontg here, also known as :88E:Sassthmar, Eater of Thoughts:88E:. I'm actually not using my Illithid Psion at the moment, but my current character is based in Greyhawk, whereas Sassthmar is from the Realms--I'm also running an OA campaign with an Akutenshi sorcerer, but that's another story altogether!
P.S. I know that's not actually a mind flayer--I do read H.P. Lovecraft, after all--but one must admit, there's a resemblance!
Insidious Illithid
10-30-03, 02:56 PM Ah, a home for the true masters of the universe...

Only too happy to join:) .

What is my member number?
Romulus LoneWolf
03-06-04, 02:15 PM I'd like to join up. And as an offering to the foundation, I'd like to say that Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook offers an excellent system for Psychic Abilities which I feel better simulates the feeling of 2nd edition AD&D Psionics then the new one: It's essentally a Feat and Skill system, where the raw talent is in a Feat and the stunts are in the Skills. Telepathy itself is a Feat, for exemple, which allows the Psychic to Mindread, Dominate, implant Suggestions or even perform Psychic Surgery on others by buying ranks in those Psychic Skills.

So, you could build an Illithid that's a master telepath -without- having to get high levels in a Psion class, simply by altering the basic Monster write up to replace it's Psionic abilities by bonus Psychich Feats and by using it's Skillpoints to buy Psychic Skills.
Yipwyg the Mighty
03-06-04, 09:07 PM Thank God. My Gestalt Psion/Wizard/Epic Illithid Savant has had no place in the World as of yet.... And his Will Saves are at DC 32, so you know. He's slurping up Archmages, champions and Warlords 8 days a week, and actually has ranks in Profession (Brain-cooking) from his occupation. He rocks, especially now that he has multiple Major Artifacts at his disposal... But back to the point.

May I join up? If so, may I have a title?
Xod, Archmage
03-07-04, 05:47 AM Long live Illithidkind! May Mind Flayers rule, brains flow, and tentacles be the national appendage! I'll gladly join such a great place for the furthurment of one of the greatest D&D monsters ever!

Count me in!

Xod:behold:

P.S.Go Cthulhu!!
Princeoflowlight
03-07-04, 01:40 PM I'd like to join your wonderful society. Muave, tentacle faced, brain eating aliens from the Astral Plane with psychic powers have been a passion of mine ever since I first saw the Mind Flayer in my 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual.
Drake Dragonslayer
03-07-04, 04:30 PM Sign me up for Illithid fanboy status.

Do you think there should be more Illithid specific spells and PrCs?
Chiba_Monkey
03-08-04, 03:18 AM Originally posted by Xod, Archmage
Long live Illithidkind! May Mind Flayers rule, brains flow, and tentacles be the national appendage! I'll gladly join such a great place for the furthurment of one of the greatest D&D monsters ever!

That almost reminds me of the old Lucasarts game "Day of the Tentacle" It's about 3 hours long if you know what you're doing, and it's fun.

But, anyway...:88E: :88E: :88E:
LONG LIVE IILITHIDS!!

What's my member number? Baneofkobolds, you, as founding member, should edit the first post and add all our names in order for our numbers :D :D

Oh, and one of my favorite illithid quirks was the keeping of intellect devourers, both as pets and occasional snacks:rofl:

In my home campaign, high-level Illithid psions have basically kidnapped an entire city (structures and all) and taken it to the Underdark, where they scour it looking for a powerful artifact that belonged to one of the city's archmages.
Yipwyg the Mighty
03-08-04, 09:14 AM Kidnapped just a city? In my campaign, they send hundreds of inquisitions out into the planes to find the long-lost relics and artifacts of their ancient empire, before the times of Gith.

In fact, in my world, they arrived at this world in a gigantic spaceship, but much like the Elder Things of Cthulhian myth, slowly lost their technology. However, their psionics and magic remains. They then built their remembered empire in ademi-plane they themselves crafted. It is a legend among them.

One inquisition has found the remains of their ancient colossal craft. And they are slowly beginning to understand their race's history. :88E::88E::88E:
Joni-san
03-08-04, 10:09 AM Illithids, one of the the most known D&D monster beside Dragons, Beholders and Rust Monsters. :)

How could anybody resist these Brain-eating-mind-crushing-monsters? :88E:

Yay For Illithids :bounce:

Ps: Iä iä! Cthulhu Fthang!!
Finwe
04-15-04, 12:28 AM Uhhh, how about mind blank? :D ;) Let me be the first to welcome you to the new Guild House, or foundations board. All it costs to stay here is to send a magic item worth at least 20,000 GP to each of your GM's (me, sil and orcy) once per month.

Seriously: Welcome to the new board. You are now free of the shackles of having to stay on topic for the particular board you are in. Now you can role-play, discuss rules or just generally chat. Enjoy!
[/carbon copied message]
Silmarien Aldalome
04-15-04, 12:31 AM And a second to that - welcome aboard.

*grabs Illithid wards*

Long Live the Illithids!
Romulus LoneWolf
04-16-04, 05:06 PM So, who here -hasn't- seen the new Psionic Illithid from the Expanded Psionics Handbook? They've just gotten even cooler.. Psionic Charm, Psionic Suggestion and Psionic Domination, Body Equilibrium, Body Adjustment, Psionic Dimension Door... The Psionic Illithid can do even more then the arcane version..

...And personally, I think the perfect Psionic Class for the Mind Flayers is the Erudite from Dragon #319; a class which explores the limits of psionic knowledge and mastery, without being biased towards one Discipline over another...
Diabolic Doppelganger
06-12-04, 01:51 AM I do not think that they are worth a +7 LA, I give them a +4 or 5 (5 at the most).

You guys?
De Batavier
06-15-04, 01:58 PM A small group of figures enters the building the Illithids are gathered. They suddenly pull forth weapons and attack. It are the dreaded Illithids slayers from the psionics foundation. Some of the attackers are different and use psionics to attack. They are protected by strong psionics. But as always the Illithids gain the upper hand after extracting some brains and the attackers flee

Greetings,

As you can see i'am from the psionics foundation and ofcourse i have to hate and fear Illithids.

But i think our two foundations can build a nice synergy between them. On our foundation we are preparing defences against Illithids.
We have a lot in common, psionics.

Oh and to make certain this is clear, it is not my intention to start some flame war, just a little IC compentition and OOC thinking about psionics.
So i am looking foward to friendly OOC interaction and some fun IC.

Hope we all can have some fun
zenos_paradox
06-16-04, 10:16 PM I'll join in, i'm not one but i come from the same multivers as you Illithids:88E:
leopardmessiah
06-20-04, 12:08 PM Sign me up, I love the brain-stealing monsters, with genetic experiments and stuff. Forward the reclamation of the Empire. Now to find a copy of the Illithiad.... And for those who want Cthulu, I'm putting an illithid savant through Darkhelms Dragon transformation (adventure I'm making-if I get some time- mainly to give the illithids life-shaping techniques, since it fits our methods), then if I buy him divine ranks....
Mindbreaker
06-20-04, 04:10 PM baneofkobolds, are Ulitharid Alhoons allowed to join?:confused:

For all illithid lovers, you can get The Illithiad (Download) at
www.SVGames.com for $5.00
De Batavier
06-21-04, 10:49 AM A single scout from the psionics foundation silently sneaks into the Illithids foundation. He is send to check out the activity. It doesn't take him long to find out that since the recent attack there has been little activity. He wonders if the Illithids are brooding on soem devious plan to counter attack.

Greetings,

So nobody has read my earlier post, or nobody wants to respond.

I'am not that familiar with the Illithids. What is their history
Mindbreaker
06-22-04, 07:10 PM :88E: Illithids have a long and ancient history. Before recorded times, the Illithids had a vast empire spanning across the E, A, I, planes and Toril (Prime Material Plane in FR) called Penumbra. It was broken by a slave uprising, helped by their newfound psionics and led by Gith, a githerzai/githyanki (before the race split) female slave champion. Some Illithids retreated underground, some other planes, and some other planets (via Nautiloids, Illithid spaceships). Some say Illithids came from The Void (space), some say another realm, some say they evolved, and some say Illsensine created them.:teach:
De Batavier
06-23-04, 07:31 AM That seems to confirm the alien feel i always get from the Illithids. Me and my DM think they're cool, but that they're just to..alien for our campaign world.

On the post about the LA adjustment for the Illithids. I think they should have a relative high LA. They have an instant kill ability with the extract brain. In theory they could kill anything with a brain fast. This power should not be underestimated.
Son_Of_Cthulhu
06-29-04, 06:49 AM A deep green Illithid looking creature walks into the room. With a closer look, everyone realizes that the newcomer is not jsut any ordinary Illithid, but one of the most powerful half-Illithids of all time: the Son of Cthulhu.

All I have to say is that Illithids rule. Being able to dominate the minds of others and then eat out their brains are golden abilities. Sign me up.
Mindbreaker
07-02-04, 08:35 PM I'm kinda new to DnD and Ihave no clue what Cthulhu is:embarrass
Son_Of_Cthulhu
07-03-04, 03:17 AM To make this short, Cthulhu is an elder god in H P Lovecraft's story The Call of Cthulhu. Cthulhu was locked away underwater in some sort of coma effect, and the story says that he will one day "waken up" and call the other gods in order to destroy the world. Cthulhu is a giant greenish illithid-looking thing with wings and all.
Mindbreaker
07-03-04, 10:17 AM Thanks Son_of_ Cthulhu. I'm still wondering if Ulitharid Alhoons can join:confused: :confused: :confused:
Silmarien Aldalome
07-04-04, 09:54 PM ....I'm still wondering if Ulitharid Alhoons can join:confused: :confused: :confused:

you betcha - everyone's welcome. great to have you here BTW.

regards
stav
Khaibit_Ema_Neteru
07-29-04, 02:18 AM I also would be all about joining.

Any room for another Mindflayer?
PseudoYorimoto
07-29-04, 01:37 PM As would I. The illithid have always fascinated me, and my teuthilid came from this. But, what shall we discuss? We need some good topics, and since the Psionics Foundation (which I am a member of) have been developing powers and feats to protect their brain, how about this?

Topic: The Many Methods of Brain Extraction
turalisj
08-02-04, 06:30 PM sneaks in and places several mindleeches in the main hall. quietly sneeks out.
PseudoYorimoto
08-02-04, 06:56 PM Sthatchar, the teuthilid nomad, smiles as he scries on the escaping saboteur. He assumes his illithid guise as Psethyr, and procceeds to use his catapsi power to eliminate the mindleech threat. He sighs in the great underground hall of the illithid, he is pondering on how he will aid his brothers here. The members of the Psionics Guild are attacking the illithid. This must be stopped, for the illithid must live, for now. He smiles, as Dagon whispers in his ear, and he begins to write in his grimoire, devising plans and putting thought into text.
WorldConquerer
09-10-04, 12:19 AM Love illithids. I'll join!
bgt
09-16-04, 11:02 PM (An average looking-illithid walks into the guild room, accompanied by several slaves, and begins to communicate telipathicly.) <On behalf of the Psionics Foundation, I would like to apologize for the for their recent activities. The truth is, they are simply overwhelmed by our obvious supirior-> (the slaves and illithid begein to fliker and fade, leaving a somewhat starved looking illithid in their place.While three of this illithid's tentacles undulate, one hangs limp, a cruel lookins scar running up it, marking this illithid as an exile. A single thought emenates from this illithid before it teleports away. <Oh dear.>

I'm fairly new, and I would also like to know more about Cthulhu. Just from reading the boards I was under the impression that he was from a D&D comic. If I recal, I saw a quote in someones sig that went something like this:

Name I can't remember: Cthulhu, What are you doing out? Get back in your fishbowl.
Cthulhu: No, no more fishbowls.
Name I can't remember: Cthulhu, is something wrong?

Anyone have any idea what this means? Also will someone tell me what "Iä iä! Cthulhu Fthang!!" means?
Silvanus
09-17-04, 07:47 PM An extremely well-dressed human walks in, looking around cautiously. "While it should be obvious from my appearance that I am not, in fact, a mind flayer, I consider myself a scholar of your race. I hope you won't mind if I drop in occasionally."

Cthulhu is from a set of books by (mostly) H.P Lovecraft. They're basically horror stories (they gave me the creeps, anyway) with strong elements of fantasy/sci-fi. Cthulhu has been referenced in several comics, I believe, but that wasn't his origin. I myself was unaware of the connection between Cthulhu and mind flayers- I thought of him as more of a giant toad.
thasis
09-19-04, 11:36 PM Hello fellow flayers. I ask your premision if you will let me into your fabulous guild.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
baneofkobolds 07-17-03, 09:03 PM	First I'd like to say that my other foundation is still welcoming members. Second I am unsure if there are any foundations dedicated to Illithids but I wanted to start one. The first request I have from anyone who wants to join is a Half-Illithid template. I would like it to be basically like half-celestials, half-fiends, half-dragons, etc. a template to show that the creature is an offspring of the base creature and an Illithid. I would like it to have tentacles and an extract ability most of all. This would of course make the result an abberation. i have no experience in the making of templates and therefore need this help. Anything else Illithid related is welcome too.:D
Kevmann 07-17-03, 09:06 PM	Look in the Fiend Folio, it has the half-illithid template and even shows the secret information on how illithid's reproduce!
baneofkobolds 07-17-03, 09:08 PM	Thanks. Looks like theres some more money gone in the great D&D cause!:D
Dave1001 07-17-03, 09:34 PM	I would join, as I like the concept of brain-eating squids. but the whole 'no weapon or armor proficiency' Savage Species thing kind of kills it for me.
baneofkobolds 07-18-03, 05:57 PM	Glad to have you aboard mate! Brain-Eating Intelligent Bipedal Squid With Hands appealed to me too.:D
Mongoose4937 07-26-03, 09:51 PM	I too shall join, for brains are full of juicy goodness. I have eaten the brains of many adventurers through my Monsters, and I have always secretly desired a place where this would not be frowned upon. Those who oppose us shall need to make many DC17 will saves.
baneofkobolds 07-27-03, 01:54 PM	eating brains is fun welcome aboard
Delfedd 07-27-03, 02:17 PM	click the "here" below, so you to can eat brains!
Illithid #164 08-23-03, 09:24 PM	I'd like to join. Any species with an average IQ of 210, thought reading and the ability to knock out people who **** you off with a psionic glare is fine by me. And if you follow it with vigorous brain eating (cooked medium-rare in butter sause), all the better. (You can find out if annoying people's brains taste different from, like, other brains you may have ate recently.)
BladeVenom 08-23-03, 10:33 PM	All hail Cthulhu.
Mongoose4937 08-24-03, 06:53 PM	Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Ftaghn!
Jontg 10-26-03, 10:44 PM	Hello, fellow brain connoisseurs--Jontg here, also known as :88E:Sassthmar, Eater of Thoughts:88E:. I'm actually not using my Illithid Psion at the moment, but my current character is based in Greyhawk, whereas Sassthmar is from the Realms--I'm also running an OA campaign with an Akutenshi sorcerer, but that's another story altogether! P.S. I know that's not actually a mind flayer--I do read H.P. Lovecraft, after all--but one must admit, there's a resemblance!
Insidious Illithid 10-30-03, 02:56 PM	Ah, a home for the true masters of the universe... Only too happy to join:) . What is my member number?
Romulus LoneWolf 03-06-04, 02:15 PM	I'd like to join up. And as an offering to the foundation, I'd like to say that Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook offers an excellent system for Psychic Abilities which I feel better simulates the feeling of 2nd edition AD&D Psionics then the new one: It's essentally a Feat and Skill system, where the raw talent is in a Feat and the stunts are in the Skills. Telepathy itself is a Feat, for exemple, which allows the Psychic to Mindread, Dominate, implant Suggestions or even perform Psychic Surgery on others by buying ranks in those Psychic Skills. So, you could build an Illithid that's a master telepath -without- having to get high levels in a Psion class, simply by altering the basic Monster write up to replace it's Psionic abilities by bonus Psychich Feats and by using it's Skillpoints to buy Psychic Skills.
Yipwyg the Mighty 03-06-04, 09:07 PM	Thank God. My Gestalt Psion/Wizard/Epic Illithid Savant has had no place in the World as of yet.... And his Will Saves are at DC 32, so you know. He's slurping up Archmages, champions and Warlords 8 days a week, and actually has ranks in Profession (Brain-cooking) from his occupation. He rocks, especially now that he has multiple Major Artifacts at his disposal... But back to the point. May I join up? If so, may I have a title?
Xod, Archmage 03-07-04, 05:47 AM	Long live Illithidkind! May Mind Flayers rule, brains flow, and tentacles be the national appendage! I'll gladly join such a great place for the furthurment of one of the greatest D&D monsters ever! Count me in! Xod:behold: P.S.Go Cthulhu!!
Princeoflowlight 03-07-04, 01:40 PM	I'd like to join your wonderful society. Muave, tentacle faced, brain eating aliens from the Astral Plane with psychic powers have been a passion of mine ever since I first saw the Mind Flayer in my 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual.
Drake Dragonslayer 03-07-04, 04:30 PM	Sign me up for Illithid fanboy status. Do you think there should be more Illithid specific spells and PrCs?
Chiba_Monkey 03-08-04, 03:18 AM	Originally posted by Xod, Archmage Long live Illithidkind! May Mind Flayers rule, brains flow, and tentacles be the national appendage! I'll gladly join such a great place for the furthurment of one of the greatest D&D monsters ever! That almost reminds me of the old Lucasarts game "Day of the Tentacle" It's about 3 hours long if you know what you're doing, and it's fun. But, anyway...:88E: :88E: :88E: LONG LIVE IILITHIDS!! What's my member number? Baneofkobolds, you, as founding member, should edit the first post and add all our names in order for our numbers :D :D Oh, and one of my favorite illithid quirks was the keeping of intellect devourers, both as pets and occasional snacks:rofl: In my home campaign, high-level Illithid psions have basically kidnapped an entire city (structures and all) and taken it to the Underdark, where they scour it looking for a powerful artifact that belonged to one of the city's archmages.
Yipwyg the Mighty 03-08-04, 09:14 AM	Kidnapped just a city? In my campaign, they send hundreds of inquisitions out into the planes to find the long-lost relics and artifacts of their ancient empire, before the times of Gith. In fact, in my world, they arrived at this world in a gigantic spaceship, but much like the Elder Things of Cthulhian myth, slowly lost their technology. However, their psionics and magic remains. They then built their remembered empire in ademi-plane they themselves crafted. It is a legend among them. One inquisition has found the remains of their ancient colossal craft. And they are slowly beginning to understand their race's history. :88E::88E::88E:
Joni-san 03-08-04, 10:09 AM	Illithids, one of the the most known D&D monster beside Dragons, Beholders and Rust Monsters. :) How could anybody resist these Brain-eating-mind-crushing-monsters? :88E: Yay For Illithids :bounce: Ps: Iä iä! Cthulhu Fthang!!
Finwe 04-15-04, 12:28 AM	Uhhh, how about mind blank? :D ;) Let me be the first to welcome you to the new Guild House, or foundations board. All it costs to stay here is to send a magic item worth at least 20,000 GP to each of your GM's (me, sil and orcy) once per month. Seriously: Welcome to the new board. You are now free of the shackles of having to stay on topic for the particular board you are in. Now you can role-play, discuss rules or just generally chat. Enjoy! [/carbon copied message]
Silmarien Aldalome 04-15-04, 12:31 AM	And a second to that - welcome aboard. grabs Illithid wards Long Live the Illithids!
Romulus LoneWolf 04-16-04, 05:06 PM	So, who here -hasn't- seen the new Psionic Illithid from the Expanded Psionics Handbook? They've just gotten even cooler.. Psionic Charm, Psionic Suggestion and Psionic Domination, Body Equilibrium, Body Adjustment, Psionic Dimension Door... The Psionic Illithid can do even more then the arcane version.. ...And personally, I think the perfect Psionic Class for the Mind Flayers is the Erudite from Dragon #319; a class which explores the limits of psionic knowledge and mastery, without being biased towards one Discipline over another...
Diabolic Doppelganger 06-12-04, 01:51 AM	I do not think that they are worth a +7 LA, I give them a +4 or 5 (5 at the most). You guys?
De Batavier 06-15-04, 01:58 PM	A small group of figures enters the building the Illithids are gathered. They suddenly pull forth weapons and attack. It are the dreaded Illithids slayers from the psionics foundation. Some of the attackers are different and use psionics to attack. They are protected by strong psionics. But as always the Illithids gain the upper hand after extracting some brains and the attackers flee Greetings, As you can see i'am from the psionics foundation and ofcourse i have to hate and fear Illithids. But i think our two foundations can build a nice synergy between them. On our foundation we are preparing defences against Illithids. We have a lot in common, psionics. Oh and to make certain this is clear, it is not my intention to start some flame war, just a little IC compentition and OOC thinking about psionics. So i am looking foward to friendly OOC interaction and some fun IC. Hope we all can have some fun
zenos_paradox 06-16-04, 10:16 PM	I'll join in, i'm not one but i come from the same multivers as you Illithids:88E:
leopardmessiah 06-20-04, 12:08 PM	Sign me up, I love the brain-stealing monsters, with genetic experiments and stuff. Forward the reclamation of the Empire. Now to find a copy of the Illithiad.... And for those who want Cthulu, I'm putting an illithid savant through Darkhelms Dragon transformation (adventure I'm making-if I get some time- mainly to give the illithids life-shaping techniques, since it fits our methods), then if I buy him divine ranks....
Mindbreaker 06-20-04, 04:10 PM	baneofkobolds, are Ulitharid Alhoons allowed to join?:confused: For all illithid lovers, you can get The Illithiad (Download) at www.SVGames.com for $5.00
De Batavier 06-21-04, 10:49 AM	A single scout from the psionics foundation silently sneaks into the Illithids foundation. He is send to check out the activity. It doesn't take him long to find out that since the recent attack there has been little activity. He wonders if the Illithids are brooding on soem devious plan to counter attack. Greetings, So nobody has read my earlier post, or nobody wants to respond. I'am not that familiar with the Illithids. What is their history
Mindbreaker 06-22-04, 07:10 PM	:88E: Illithids have a long and ancient history. Before recorded times, the Illithids had a vast empire spanning across the E, A, I, planes and Toril (Prime Material Plane in FR) called Penumbra. It was broken by a slave uprising, helped by their newfound psionics and led by Gith, a githerzai/githyanki (before the race split) female slave champion. Some Illithids retreated underground, some other planes, and some other planets (via Nautiloids, Illithid spaceships). Some say Illithids came from The Void (space), some say another realm, some say they evolved, and some say Illsensine created them.:teach:
De Batavier 06-23-04, 07:31 AM	That seems to confirm the alien feel i always get from the Illithids. Me and my DM think they're cool, but that they're just to..alien for our campaign world. On the post about the LA adjustment for the Illithids. I think they should have a relative high LA. They have an instant kill ability with the extract brain. In theory they could kill anything with a brain fast. This power should not be underestimated.
Son_Of_Cthulhu 06-29-04, 06:49 AM	A deep green Illithid looking creature walks into the room. With a closer look, everyone realizes that the newcomer is not jsut any ordinary Illithid, but one of the most powerful half-Illithids of all time: the Son of Cthulhu. All I have to say is that Illithids rule. Being able to dominate the minds of others and then eat out their brains are golden abilities. Sign me up.
Mindbreaker 07-02-04, 08:35 PM	I'm kinda new to DnD and Ihave no clue what Cthulhu is:embarrass
Son_Of_Cthulhu 07-03-04, 03:17 AM	To make this short, Cthulhu is an elder god in H P Lovecraft's story The Call of Cthulhu. Cthulhu was locked away underwater in some sort of coma effect, and the story says that he will one day "waken up" and call the other gods in order to destroy the world. Cthulhu is a giant greenish illithid-looking thing with wings and all.
Mindbreaker 07-03-04, 10:17 AM	Thanks Son_of_ Cthulhu. I'm still wondering if Ulitharid Alhoons can join:confused: :confused: :confused:
Silmarien Aldalome 07-04-04, 09:54 PM	....I'm still wondering if Ulitharid Alhoons can join:confused: :confused: :confused: you betcha - everyone's welcome. great to have you here BTW. regards stav
Khaibit_Ema_Neteru 07-29-04, 02:18 AM	I also would be all about joining. Any room for another Mindflayer?
PseudoYorimoto 07-29-04, 01:37 PM	As would I. The illithid have always fascinated me, and my teuthilid came from this. But, what shall we discuss? We need some good topics, and since the Psionics Foundation (which I am a member of) have been developing powers and feats to protect their brain, how about this? Topic: The Many Methods of Brain Extraction
turalisj 08-02-04, 06:30 PM	sneaks in and places several mindleeches in the main hall. quietly sneeks out.
PseudoYorimoto 08-02-04, 06:56 PM	Sthatchar, the teuthilid nomad, smiles as he scries on the escaping saboteur. He assumes his illithid guise as Psethyr, and procceeds to use his catapsi power to eliminate the mindleech threat. He sighs in the great underground hall of the illithid, he is pondering on how he will aid his brothers here. The members of the Psionics Guild are attacking the illithid. This must be stopped, for the illithid must live, for now. He smiles, as Dagon whispers in his ear, and he begins to write in his grimoire, devising plans and putting thought into text.
WorldConquerer 09-10-04, 12:19 AM	Love illithids. I'll join!
bgt 09-16-04, 11:02 PM	(An average looking-illithid walks into the guild room, accompanied by several slaves, and begins to communicate telipathicly.) <On behalf of the Psionics Foundation, I would like to apologize for the for their recent activities. The truth is, they are simply overwhelmed by our obvious supirior-> (the slaves and illithid begein to fliker and fade, leaving a somewhat starved looking illithid in their place.While three of this illithid's tentacles undulate, one hangs limp, a cruel lookins scar running up it, marking this illithid as an exile. A single thought emenates from this illithid before it teleports away. <Oh dear.> I'm fairly new, and I would also like to know more about Cthulhu. Just from reading the boards I was under the impression that he was from a D&D comic. If I recal, I saw a quote in someones sig that went something like this: Name I can't remember: Cthulhu, What are you doing out? Get back in your fishbowl. Cthulhu: No, no more fishbowls. Name I can't remember: Cthulhu, is something wrong? Anyone have any idea what this means? Also will someone tell me what "Iä iä! Cthulhu Fthang!!" means?
Silvanus 09-17-04, 07:47 PM	An extremely well-dressed human walks in, looking around cautiously. "While it should be obvious from my appearance that I am not, in fact, a mind flayer, I consider myself a scholar of your race. I hope you won't mind if I drop in occasionally." Cthulhu is from a set of books by (mostly) H.P Lovecraft. They're basically horror stories (they gave me the creeps, anyway) with strong elements of fantasy/sci-fi. Cthulhu has been referenced in several comics, I believe, but that wasn't his origin. I myself was unaware of the connection between Cthulhu and mind flayers- I thought of him as more of a giant toad.
thasis 09-19-04, 11:36 PM	Hello fellow flayers. I ask your premision if you will let me into your fabulous guild.