Mind flayers

Mind Flayer
	Stats
	Level 8
Race	Mind flayer
Type	Aberration
HP	91; 110Tactician
AC	13
Movement Speed	9m / 30ft
Size	Medium
Weight	50kg / 100lbs
Proficiency Bonus	+3
Initiative	+1
	Passive features
	Magic Resistance Opportunity Attack
Character information
Location	Nautiloid, Ravaged Beach (dead), Shattered Sanctum (dead)
Experience on kill	75

Mind flayers or illithids are a non-playable race, and a type of Aberration. The Githyanki word for mind flayer is ghaik. Multiple specific creatures titled Mind Flayer also exist in the game, and are, as their names would suggest, all mind flayers.

About mind flayers

Mind flayers are psionic aberrations with a humanoid-like figure and a tentacled head that communicate using telepathy. They feast on the brains of intelligent beings and can enthrall other creatures to their will. Every mind flayer is connected to an Elder Brain, a colossal and powerful psionic brain that commands the mind flayers it is linked to.

Mind flayers reproduce by infecting other creatures with a tadpole, which consumes its host from the inside, transforming them into another mind flayer in a process called Ceremorphosis.

Thousands of years ago, Mind flayers were a dominant planar power. Using massive flying vessels called Nautiloids, they traveled to hundreds of worlds, harvesting intelligent humanoids to consume, propagate their race, and use as slave labour. One of their enslaved races, the the gith, rose up and destroyed their empire, leaving only small pockets of mind flayers behind.

Attacks and Abilities

Mind Blast

Action

DC 15

Intelligence saving throw to avoid damage and becoming

Stunned.

4d8 + 4 (8~36)

Psychic

Recharge: Per Round.

Tentacle Lash

Action

Attack roll: +7

DC 15

Intelligence saving throw

2d10 + 4 (6~24)

Psychic

Notable mind flayers

Gallery

A Mind Flayer in Early Access

External Links

Mind flayer on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

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