Needs a thinly disguised anime character

*everyone is here* - character who stands to fulfill a non-serious, comedy role (billy bob joe-overalls) - character made to fulfill a certain name or play-on-words (shrimp fried bryce) - character who is just a blatant meme, and no effort has been put into hiding it (magnum dong) - character whose blatant over-influence from one source has led to them basically just playing exactly what they were influenced by (sandra bullock)

@@irithylldragon hey hey hey, don't forget Sandra Bullock. She's important too.

@@alexanderjohnson3014 don't worry, i would never

@no or maybe yes The noble who didn't join the fight

Context plz

@@defensivekobra3873 Psychic damage does nothing to a construct like a golem.

@@Old_Guard2 yes but taverns are not commonly stocked by animated constructs and undead, it suggests that there is more to this story

@@defensivekobra3873 You’re thinking too much into this, it’s pretty surface level.

@@defensivekobra3873 The party consists of a Necromancer, a Duergar Fighter, a GOOlock with psionic protection and that one dipshit druid who uses all of his spell slots every fight to summon like 12 elementals per round

I highly recommend the book “the monsters know what they’re doing.” Or if you’re short on cash, it is based on a blog of the same name that isn’t as extensive but is free

Hobgoblins and Duergar use similar tactics since they both are unrepentant slavers. Unless war, they go for subdual over murder unless they face too much of a resistance.

He did kobolds. Take notes

@@snarglblargn4986 kobolds aren’t mentioned in the initial comment. Read.

@@joelkilchoer4238 thanks I’ll definitely check it out.

Find some Duergar and tell them where the mind flayers are.

Come back when you can cast mind blank on the entire party. Days in advance.

Convince the Lich the mindflayers know where his phylactery is. Sell tickets to the ensuing free-for-all.

Its mind fuckary, like alakazam from pokemon.

Next level psionics is custom spells, illusions that hurt you and reality warping area of effects

*Culexus intensifies*

Mindflayers believe that magic is the defective, cancerous offshoot that was originally psionics.

However it probably shouldn’t go through walls

true

They're so cool, awesome great nice gamer dnd dream minecraft!

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This video was useful and informative for running mindflayer encounters and should be like and commented on #dnd.

XENOS!!!!????

I can't wait for the Black Templars to chainsword a while hive

*Black Templar rage intensifies*

PPPUUURRRGGGHIIIINNNNNGGG WWWIIITTTTHHH MMMMYYYY KKKIIIINNNN!

FOR THE EMPEROR!

How did he do that?!

@@WolfBoy-om6dw Feeblemind? But if you can cast 8th level spells then 1. You're probaby a Wizard so decreasing your int is a horrible idea 2. You probaby have a powerful enough spell that could do more damage anyway.

Ok so it’s gonna sound stupid. TL:DR In our homebrew mess barbarian stopped a Mind Flayer cult single handily by using a kind of useless item to transport their souls to a plane (for now at least). Long exhaustive summary trip to memory lane below. Essentially our GM created a plane that can only be entered by sacrificing something “core” to you, with a nifty item we get to choose it instead! (Barbarian decreasing his intelligence made him roleplay as an animal essentially) which could only happened with a little item. After that we rarely went into that plane so the item became kind of useless, but in one of our favorite little towns our homeboys heard of a little cult worshipping Mind Flayers (imagine Genestealers). Barbarian tell the GM he has a plan. Since Mind Flayers thirst for some of that big brain energy, he wish to disguise himself as the wizard. A 6 foot muscle bound bear of a man wishes to disguise himself as a frail man. While we were setting up this horrible horrible plan that took months, the cult managed to grew big enough that they throw a revolution that caused the city to fall to chaos and ruled by… purple people. Our merry band waltz in (barbarian now in with a new magical makeover) fought with the slaves cultists for a bit, realized that they are connected to their respective Flayers and Squidward is probably wondering why a frail old man is bludgeoning his minions to death with a club as big as him. We took the normal cause of action and massacre everyone that looks “suspicious” or purple in the vicinity, we then took a little safer and wizard starts casting illusion spells. Eventually we got caught in a brutal melee where we were captured so our brains can be sucked. They took us to their dungeon and the closer we get the more Lovecraftian bullshit happens that makes our brains ouchy wouchy. Wizard disguised himself as a fallen NPC which was “accidentally” killed during a battle above, the Flayers bicker for awhile when they realized they caught a certified Big Brain Man, they treat us pretty lavishly until the moment we are going to be eaten, and as one of them comes up to eat his meal. The item activates, giving his whopping 6 intelligence to -1. This made the Mind Flayer PHYSICALLY SICK when the only memories he saw is what a senile earthworm thinks. This causes him to go on like an allergic reaction, but it’s psychic but since it’s a hive mind other mind flayers feel the pain mentally too, and so did their slaves making a giant psychic scream as the mind flayers’ souls are ripped away. The slaves and cultists were suddenly freed from their masterminds, realized what crimes they have done, what horrific forms the Flayers had transformed them. The city’s government and major corporations and other important stuff were burned down and killed, the city now has a minority hated for crimes they didn’t done and it’s buildings were heavily damaged by the Big Loud™️. So good run The All Helping Church, you lasted 6 months. (We were level 8 this cult was meant to make us level 10 why did it took that long)

@@funnyswangoosething5088 That's actually pretty inventive. Too bad the Flayers can just nope out of the material plane and return a few decades later whenever they want. Also you have inspired me to name the Ulitharid I plan to have in my new campaign Squidward.

@@funnyswangoosething5088 So wait, his INT went all the way down to -1? If a skill hit's zero you're dead.

Oh, yean... Jerry. Everyone take off your hats and bow your head in a moment of silence for Jerry. ... ... ... Okay, put the hats back on. We're done with that shit. Jerry was a bit of a jerk.

@@jackielinde7568 while we can agree Jerry was a jerk telling us to take off our hats while Op suggested giving Mind Flayers a lil sip sip of the brain nip just pushes me towards you being a thrall wanting to get our guard down🤔(😂 this was fun to write)

You could always find a group, I'm sure. There are tons everywhere looking for more players! Unless you don't wanna. Then just enjoy your plushies.

What comes first: the chicken or the egg?

There are some reddit and discord groups that you could use. I think there's also a few apps for finding groups. Or, heck, you can start your own group with people you know, not necessarily friends, just people with a common interest, though that last option is the hardest.

@@Grinnar I do want to find a group, but anxiety do be doing anxiety things

@@Grinnar That's almost the problem - tons of people everywhere makes it difficult to find a decent party that aren't just a bunch of murderhobos and a GM that's not a raging control freak heh

Same

Of course, every good campaign has one.

A GIFT FROM THE DICE GODS!

You're planning a tpk?

The universe is calling to you and whispers "finish the campaign"

The Tavernkeep is Doomguy. Mind Flayer Raid ruined.

ah, you too.

Next week on XP to level 3:

@@alias588 Mindblast is fired. BFG Division starts to sound in the distance, you hear a double barreled shotgun being loaded.

Based on how far they moved, they likely took the evasion action.

@@MonkeyJedi99 do you mean disengage. That may stop them from being attacked but it doesn't let them move through another creatures square. Also they manacled their enemies which I believe should take an action.

@@Ozziemandias56 Right! Disengage! Man, miss one weekend of gaming and my mind goes. Moving through the barbarian was an issue, yes.

They also actioned and moves at least 60ft a turn. If the raid was actually played out properly. It would be turn two before they were even up stairs to do anything.

He'd only get one and I just read it as he whiffed the swing.

Agreed, its fun seeing how op the various monsters really are when designed to use their abilities properly.

I think it already kinda is, it's just not named yet

"We're here to empty your cranial cavity" you're welcome

*Laughs in Null*

"Swiggity swooty, we want your cerebooty."

The entire hive mind heard that. This flayer is now the joke of the colony

Not ONE Ilithid in that hive mind has learned how to pun!

Gnolls run intelligently AKA how to never be allowed to DM again

Would make for an excellent role play experience, encountering something in the world that's beyond your control, the only logical solution being just trying to escape

Yeah, "Don't threaten me with a good time!"

Thune flayers might as they prefer the brains of the dead

I like to homebrew that they could choose to do non-lethal psychic damage with their mind blasts, if needbe. Makes sense for being able to kidnap commoners.

Personally I find this ridiculous. Hundreds of mind flayers would require hundreds more humanoids as food for just 1 month. Once, you have hundreds of citizens going missing each month, you'll quickly have every nation close by aggroed on the hive to exterminate it("cue 3 or 4 parties of 8 level 10s along with a couple hundred npcs of a mix of guard, thug, veteran, and knight statblocks). If I were to do a raid on a hive and you wanted to do several 100 in the hive have it as you would an army battle with lots of npcs with the party spearheading it. Throw in some rolls to see how well or bad the npcs are doing affected by party prep.

I think one important point is that there is never a thriving illithid hive. They are constantly hunted but also have to stay in close proximity to humanoids, this can never end well for them long term. So even if there are 100s of them there will be major degeneration. From there you just come up with an interesting Achilles heel that the players can exploit. the first idea that comes to my head is a majority of the hive being kept in cryosleep to reduce how many brains they need. then your players could fight their way though, discover an army of illithids but we able to destroy them in one fell swoop via collapsing the ceiling or whatever seems cool.

Because idot Barbarians keep forgetting they can have Javalins.

Time to write up an "abandoned" town.

Illithids don't lose battles. Wars are another matter. When your only food source is communal (near) apex predators, and your reproductive method requires more of the same, plus an immobile facility, sustainment becomes a really big issue.

@@boosterh1113 and eventually the gith will find them