Absorb Intellect

This article is about the illithid power. For the upgraded full-illithid version, see Synaptic Consumption.

Absorb Intellect is an illithid power which saps a target's Intelligence and heals the user over time. The healing per turn and Intelligence reduction starts at 1d8⁠⁠hit points and -1 respectively and increases by a stacking 1d8⁠⁠hit points and -1 reduction each subsequent turn for 5 turns.

Description

Gobble up a foe's intellect, lowering their Intelligence by 1 per turn and healing your wounds for 5 turns.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Healing: 15~120

1d8⁠Healing (On initial application)

+ 2d8⁠Healing (After 1 turn)

+ 3d8⁠Healing (After 2 turns)

+ 4d8⁠Healing (After 3 turn)

+ 5d8⁠Healing (After 4 turns)

Details

 INT Save (Spell save DC)

 Range: 9 m / 30 ft

 Recharge: Short rest

Duration: 5 turns

Technical details

UID

Target_TAD_AbsorbIntellect

Spell flags

CannotTargetItems, CannotTargetTerrain, DisableBlood, IsHarmful

Condition: Absorbed Intellect

 Absorbed Intellect

Duration: 5 turns

Spell save DC  Intelligence saving throw

• Intelligence is being reduced by 1.

How to learn

Other ways to learn:

• Unlock from the illithid power skill tree with a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen after obtaining one of the following:
  •  Perilous Stakes
  •  Displacer Beast Shape

Notes

• The condition  Absorbed Intellect is lost and regained each round after an initial failed saving throw. Every turn of the effect, the amount of Intellect lost increases by 1, starting as a -1 penalty on the first turn and ending as a -5 penalty on the final turn.
• Absorb Intellect inflicts  Atrophied once the Intelligence of the affected entity reaches 2, as opposed to 0.