Basically Mind Flayers

[@tinybluewhale5919]

Priority one, protect the brain. Priority two, lunch Seems like a system I can get behind

[@proxy90909]

Isnt that how all humans work?

[@supportyourself3861]

@@proxy90909 Pretty much 😂

[@willowwindweaver6791]

fuck the brain; lunch first, murder second, preserve the hive mind....nah

[@madscientistshusta]

Ikr!

[@Bluemilk92]

As an ex-drug addict, gotta say... Protecting the brain can be a surprisingly low priority. 'Specially when compared to lunch.

[@eddiespeight8103]

Damn Squidwards invading my reality!

[@theman6422]

Eddie Speight how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!

[@Bluecho4]

Hey. The Squidwards were here first. Or possibly last.

[@BlastoiseMaster]

He has the power of clarinets and astrology. Of course he can invade your mind.

[@iranoutofnames6444]

if the world hates his clarinet then he can play it in a different world

[@Jamesjones-hi5qu]

I'm sorry earth is closed today!

[@2ndThought_]

"M.E.A.N.I.E.S. ", truly the fiercest club.

[@xai8666]

Second only to League Of Villainous Evildoers Maniacally United For Frightening Investment in Naughtiness

[@maxthepaladin2147]

or Every Villain Is Lemons

[@ferbthe2gadgetguy]

@@xai8666 especially this.

[@pleaseenteraname6590]

Austin Smedley no I think that’s the first

[@freddymeng]

@@pleaseenteraname6590 that's what he said

[@No-wj4nu]

a mind flayer colony and village that have a deal where all criminals and captured bandits are given to the ilithids and the ilithids keep the village safe from danger

[@Artrysa]

But they are going to expand at some point, such is their nature. So that town is gonna get fucked at some point by the growing population of dickish squids.

[@MoonbornUwU]

Now that is clever dming.. Good idea

[@Shifterwizard]

@@Artrysa Ah, but the town itself can ALSO expand! The Mind Flayers can drive business towards the settlement by also working to protect all trade routes, and feasting on thieves who would interfere with said trade. Not to mention reading the minds of anyone who might pass through. They could become a center for spies like Switzerland was a center for mercenaries.

[@Artrysa]

@@Shifterwizard Aren't Mindflayers lawful evil?

[@No-wj4nu]

@@Artrysa that wold mean that they would better stick to there word

[@grampachampa-1901]

Mind flayers are just salty warlocks

[@No-wj4nu]

warlock calamari

[@Ben-qv9td]

@@No-wj4nu mmmm eldrirch lunch

[@supercalifragic1551]

Hentai Warlocks*

[@colinbrown74]

They’re the legion of shameless Mystic players that are 100% using it for the Min Max capabilities and ARE using the most efficient builds. They WILL quit if the GM doesn’t allow Unearthed Arcana.

[@Spiceodog]

Smart salty Squidward warlocks to be exact

[@Runesmith]

I'm gonna sneak a funfact in here: The audio for the far realm is me making fart noises in reverse, screeching like a banshee with pitch shift and reverb, scolding my cat for actually farting, and saying penis like 10 times with a few tweaks. Add in a poorly performed version of the 2001 a space odyssey via trumpet, and there you have a weird ass soundscape.

[@SuperNerd9695]

Wow

[@Notaripoffbruh]

What did I just read?

[@SylvEdu]

One of the legends about their origins is pretty fantastic, actually. Even aboleths are loath to admit that they do not remember a time when mind flayers didn't exist, and aboleths remember the birth of the gods. This is because, by some accounts, the mind flayers were the absolute dominant force in the universe, having enslaved all other races. Then, because of either the heat-death of the universe, no more available hosts, or a massive insurrection that threatened their existence, a small refugee group used future-tech to travel back in time to the beginning of the universe, where they were rather pathetic compared to the great empire they left, and they slowly renewed their species. So the story is actually a paradox... the mind flayers appear from the future, weak and pathetic, and over the course of history get more powerful and more powerful until, in the far future, they reign supreme over the whole universe. Then, when their existence is threatened, a small band of them come back from the future to appear at the beginning of time. Rinse and repeat for infinity, living the same historical course over and over again -- a parasite that can't survive their hosts domination or enslavement.

[@nathanielsteward2221]

Azzy I’m fairly sure it’s the exact opposite with the Aboleth thing, they cannot remember the mindflayer empire...

[@SylvEdu]

@@nathanielsteward2221 That's what I said. Aboleths are loath to admit that they do not remember the origin if the mindflayers.

[@nathanielsteward2221]

Azzy I’m not really sure what you mean by that... it seems that Abloleths cannot remember the mind flayers at all, you’re probably right about time travel shenanigans being involved though.

[@Micras08]

@@nathanielsteward2221 He is literally saying that the Abloleths are afraid/hesitant/reluctant/unwilling (various synonyms of loath) to admit that they DO NOT know where the mindflayers are coming form :P

[@network9568]

"[T]he inscrutable mind flayers are the race that aboleths come the closest to fearing. The aboleths do not remember the genesis of the illithid race, not even in their racial memories. As far as the aboleths know, the illithids simply appeared from nowhere, and that makes the aboleths uncomfortable. The origin and capabilities of the mind flayers are unknown. Of course, the reason for this is simple: Mind flayers came to the world from the distant future. In a way, the aboleths and the illithids are like cosmic bookends: two similar races with similar goals, one from the ancient past and one from the doomed future." -Lords of Madness I like to push the comparison further: I interpret mind flayers as distant descendants of aboleths who lost their racial memory long before building their empire. It's not explicitely canon, but I think it would be cool.

[@fuzzwobble]

Drow and mind flayers often work together. Drow hate fighting mind flayers because dark elves live in a constant state of fear and paranoia, so illithid mess with their sensibilities a lot due to their mind powers. Mind flayers hate fighting drow because they are naturally resistant to their psionics due to enchantment save bonuses and spell resistance (remember that magic/psionic transparency is default). Add to this that the drow can't destroy an illithid commune without huge losses AND the illithid can't hope to destroy a drow commune without huge losses, in either case likely causing their own society to burn, and they almost always truce using economics. The drow provide sapient beings from their raids, and the mind flayers use their powers to assist in subduing and training slaves. Old Underdark books state that "The Illithid don't intend to spare the Drow, but they are satisfied to leave their destruction til last." which is a testament to how solid the arrangements are. Some mind flayer communes may well entirely subsist on 'payments' from larger drow cities for services rendered.

[@Coryn02]

I don't know where this comes from (or even if it's official content), but this is so goddamn cool.

[@buboniccraig896]

This helped me explain mind flayers to my family after they saw Stranger Things.

[@jackfalcon5125]

Liam the popular guy

[@randomnerd4211]

...yanno using the analogy in this video, the Demorgorgons are mind flayers and the Mind Flayer is the elder brain. Where the human salsa monster from season 3 fits in this equation I have no idea. Mini Elder Brain?

[@buboniccraig896]

@@jackfalcon5125 ikr im so cool

[@ratboy5761]

Idk why they took the name mindflayer it's nothing like the actual monster

[@mr.cup6yearsago211]

@@ratboy5761 to be fair, neither are the Demogorgons.

[@UmekCrafter]

Also Giths like to raid Illithid colonies as if that was one-time event on WOW server

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

Ah the wrath of the lich king zombie outbreak. Good times.

[@Wellshem]

Basically Asmongold when he goes online

[@gabrielrussell5531]

2:39 "Mr. Gith" Gith was Ms.

[@Revenante_of_Asylum]

I was like "Wait, I thought Gith was female," as well when I heard that bit.

[@zoushaomenohu]

@@Revenante_of_Asylum Yeah, me too.

[@Grinnar]

And also the Gith were originally humans, not elves.

[@gabrielrussell5531]

@@Grinnar The "used to be human" thing was of dubious canon before, and hasn't been acknowledged in several editions. They were always their own unique race. The elves comment was merely aboot their appearance.

[@Grinnar]

@@gabrielrussell5531 you say that, but there's nothing that disputes my assertion.

[@vex_instincts5183]

Priority 3: don’t get involved with the protagonists in a DnD session.

[@kapmando]

Universal rule for monsters.

[@arcanistthesonofianite249]

You haven't watched Critical Role campaign 1 have you?

[@loppydoodle726]

Priotiry 4: BECOME the protaganist in a DnD session

[@dropkickpherby6994]

Here for that Baldur's Gate III pre-knowledge!

[@WarPaintClub]

Indeed, friends!

[@Grinnar]

Until you realize that Varian doesn't know what they're doing.

[@dropkickpherby6994]

@@Grinnar would you have said that about Any studio that is given the license? Larian are very renowned for turn based RPGs

[@Grinnar]

@@dropkickpherby6994 I'm very familiar with Larian. Their successes are either at the hands of one of the best writers in the industry (Chris Avellone), or misappropriating Kickstarter money (Dragon Commander->Original Sin 1).

[@janelantestaverde2018]

Oh hey, yeah, same. I watched the trailer and was like "Who's this handsome abomination?"

[@Bluecho4]

Minor Correction: While Mind Flayers can Levitate at will, the Levitate spell/effect is not the same as the _Fly_ spell/effect. Levitate only lets you go up and down. You need Fly to be your replacement for walking. In conclusion, Mind Flayers would not have super atrophied legs. Alas, they must still get a bare minimum of cardio when crossing rooms.

[@gaminreasons8941]

While this is technically true I prefer the image of Mindflayers gently floating around everywhere when they don't need their Concentration on something else.

[@SPFLDAngler]

You clearly did not pay attention at all whatsoever... he said they have tubes that they travel through while levitating. Meaning they don't need to walk anywhere in their own place. They just let the tube bring them to another area making walking unnecessary. They pretty much only need their legs to travel like a couple meters at most when and only when they need to go to the next tube.

[@evannibbe9375]

Ursine Maximus The tubes would allow them to rise up the the top and use their hands/claws to pull themselves along the ceiling into the other room.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

A weakness that must be corrected

[@leetzabach5793]

Bruh aint nobody gon' talk about that Critical Role Rule 34 in the background at 1:25?

[@opota4113]

Oh shit dude I only noticed it nos

[@J--12]

Do you have source?

[@calindboard5114]

@@J--12 its rule thirty four so check the rule 34 site

[@luisrangel909]

How do you know its a Critical role 34?

[@WarsmithThanatos]

@@luisrangel909 Because its Clarota nailing Vex. Dont ask

[@Mare_Man]

Shrek Elves I'm ded

[@supportyourself3861]

So am I

[@janelantestaverde2018]

@@supportyourself3861 "Shrelves" They want you out of their bloodline.

[@tomasthepolishtrain5562]

Love this video, mind flayers are some of my favorite monsters in DnD ( basically beholders pls)

[@dylank2428]

If you go down to a Mind Flayer, you instantly die. That's something a friend's campaign learned the hard way. #RIPAungilTheMindFlayed

[@supportyourself3861]

Maybe not entirely, cause in Volo's Guide to Monsters it is said that mind flayers can retain some of the memories from their past lives but yeah. This is no longer your character. ("How to turn somebody into an asshole" guide XD)

[@RequiemPoete]

Many Mindflayer retain quirks from their hosts, like humming a tune or tapping fingers on the table when annoyed. This is of course VERY frowned on Illithid society and Mindflayers are careful not to display these... crass holdovers less they be observed as defective in some way.

[@RequiemPoete]

Also... Occasionally the outer appearence doesn't mutate, so it's an Illithid mind and digestive system but still looking like a *race*. And there's a potion that allows the host to retain control if they drink it before being inseminated.

[@diablopro3438]

My gm is running Waterdeep, and uh, one of the Pcs killed a mindflayer with a carrot.

[@redmanish]

I read this as “go down on a Mind Flayer” and honestly I imagine it’d end the same way.

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

"Rancid jar of meat and thoughts." Outstanding.

[@thomasallen9974]

Yeah, that titanic brain worm is literally the most feared thing Mind Flayers can think of. In fact they are so dangerous the moment a tadpole is even slightly too mature Illithids immediately desend upon it to kill it. So the only real reason a titanic brain worm pops in to existence is because someone interrupted them during the murder session. So... yeah its adventurers who typically cause them to exist.

[@nekosparkclaw2833]

I love the reasons why it's so scary to em, too. They despise this giant worm because it's as hungry as they are, as psychically strong as the elder brain, but CANNOT be tracked, reasoned with, or subdued. Odds are that it will find a colony, and then eat it alive- so it's not an unfounded fear.

[@MarkD5678]

@@nekosparkclaw2833 the irony is that neothilids are the illithids' natural adult stage without being forced into symbiosis with a host body.

[@whydotheyletyouhavesuchalo9144]

Everyone: Zombies eat brains!!! Everyone who knows d&d: no, gross squid thingies do.

[@sanddry738]

Also D&D zombies don’t seem to be contagious/spread through infection. Good for your average citizen who already has to deal with everything else

[@whydotheyletyouhavesuchalo9144]

sanddry so basically mind flayers are zombies wizards of the coast just decided that they worshipped giant brains and had squid faces

[@briarrosegael2015]

@@sanddry738 Well, that's usually because "zombies" created through necromancy aren't like Romero zombies.... meaning I could raise thousands of "zombies" but their bite wouldn't carry infection

[@Siegberg91]

@@briarrosegael2015 in fantansy its ghouls which are infectious they are also more intiligent then Zombies

[@Konpekikaminari]

@@Siegberg91 and according to one line in a Forgotten realms book, Ghouls eat bone marrow, not brains

[@Winter_RainDT]

Eating while watching this awesome informative interesting video was a mistake.

[@supportyourself3861]

« *puke* »

[@alexhayden507]

Big ol bowl of lukewarm ramen, delicious

[@josch5071]

I am now never going to be able to refer to Psionics as anything other than The Big Think, so thank you for that.

[@True_Canadian]

Mind flayers, AKA If cthulhu and hermaeus mora Had a baby

[@a.b.5688]

I came back to watch this video years later, after playing a bunch of BG3. This video pointing out how mind flayer society is inherently self-destructive and dumb has made me smirk a lot in BG3

[@DinkyKnag]

My favorite bit of lore about Mind Flayers is that they were specifically designed by their god, Ilsensine, to be as unable to peacefully coexist with other sapient life as possible, just to piss off every possible god he could.

[@JotunMinis]

1 month later we get Baldur's Gate and the Mind Flayers as antagonists, coincidence? I don't think so!! Awesome work!!

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

6:27 I have a theory as to why that's considered embarrassing, one that also explains why no aboleth remembers the mind flayer empire, and why they claim to be evolved aboleths, even though that's a few steps down. So you know how aboleths regenerate after bodily destruction, can enthrall mortals, collect memories endlessly, and have photographic, inter-generational memory, all because of their massive brains? And you know how they want to overthrow the gods? And you know how Gods like dealing out karmic, ironic punishments to those who wronged them? My theory goes that one day, the aboleths enacted their master plan, but failed to everthrow the gods. Because they just respawn around the brains, the gods couldn't destroy them, so they cursed them; the gods separated the aboleths' minds and bodies permanently, making the mind controlling eel part just worms in a brine pool and the ever-memoried eternal brain part into the elder brains. Separate from their form, the elder brains can die, and separated from their brains, the worms have to infect and enslave another being, eating brains to survive, or be fated to be just a neolithid, a nonsentient beast that is the only thing left of the abolethic majesty they once held, and is as such, embarrasing to the nth degree. Then the gods shoved them out into the far realm, where they came back earlier in the timeline, and possibly made an empire that was wiped from existence by the Shrek Elves.

[@grizzlybear2750]

Mind Flayer in Stranger Things: OH SHIT!!! Mind Flayer in DnD: Haha magic go voosh

[@CrysResan]

I just realized that the things in Parasyte: The Maxim are basically mind flayers.

[@zappablegiraffe2117]

I'm fairly sure Gith was actually female. Also, she didn't lead it by herself, Zerthimon also played a huge role, which is why Githzerai and Githyanki are different, after Gith and Zerthimon had a huge disagreement

[@udasai]

We learn this in Planescape: Torment...however, it should be noted that (spoilers) the protagonist ("Adan", heh, if you know you know) actually wrote the Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon (the source of this story) in order to trick the githzerai Dakkon to follow him. It might just be fabrication. Canon to me, though.

[@onebilliontacos3405]

My god I just realized that you are like the Zefrank of Dnd and also that I NEED a Zefrank video on Ilithids. That baby thunder dome part was just way too good.

[@Gulpy3]

I think anyone playing BG3 should watch your entire channel in preparation. So much wonderful lore that would make the game even more amazing then it's going to be.

[@residentrump3271]

*NEVER* ask a mind flayer "would you like some head"? It will *NOT* go well....

[@idle_speculation]

Idea: a large colony of mind flayers which farm humanoids for food. They trade with myconids to get their spores so that their livestock can be put into a Matrix-like simulation to flavor them with life experiences.

[@disconnectedbraixen3842]

Now there’s a game that won GOTY that is mainly about mindflayers

[@racekitty]

Something else you should know about mind flayer is that some times the transformation doesn't completely work sometimes the transformation only works on the inside make the mind flayer look like the host race but keep psionic powers and need for brains they often serve as spies on the other hand some keep the mind and soul of the host but giving the host the appearance of a mind flayer and psionic power these are known as the adversary and are the greatest fear the mind flayers.

[@supportyourself3861]

Ooh, those are fun. XD

[@cartooncritique6625]

The latter sounds like an excellent premise for a story...I'm just imagining the Mind-Flayer equivalent to Alucard or Blade.

[@minivergur]

Seize the means of psionics!

[@utuberaptor]

At least the Yeerks' evolutionary history had the common sense to not change their host's physiology so they could expand in secret

[@MegaNightmare4]

I have a mindflayer that dresses like a cowboy in my campaign. We call him Billy the Squid

[@ionlyusethisforyoutubeprem9251]

I got a mage too in my campaign that has a shaved head, her name’s Eleven

[@RavenWolffe77]

“Just waiting to be shoved into someone’s ear” Well somebody read Animorphs

[@cometsmith]

so it's 3 squids in a cosmic super-intelligent trench coat?

[@thesparrow1116]

Runesmith: Mindflayer biology makes no sense Baldur's Gate 3: Hold my beer

[@stodorovic]

I thoroughly enjoyed this and I’m sad it ended so quickly :(

[@brolveth6665]

Mind flayers, big tentacle head who is constantly going to his own destruction. You can't find anything more accurate that this video

[@cthulhufhtagn2483]

I needed to watch this before I ran my mind flayer campaign.

[@OrderedChaos010]

The big brain am winning again. I am the greetest! Now I am leaving for no Raisin!

[@caydenmaletsky3453]

They should make a video game about them

[@ARCHANONN5000]

I love these basically videos!

[@dovakiin4257]

Runsmith do litches! Those are a staple in storys and can leave your party with memories that they will have forever! the mighty Asererak even mentioned with my group after a 2 years ago when we played tomb of annihalation still haunts them to this day! Also great video!

[@johnjustjohn5866]

*liches

[@Cozy-000]

Bruh i want some darude sandstorm binural beats

[@burningbronze7555]

We die or take levels in mystic It will be a great party.

[@jamescanjuggle]

Man I gotta tell ya I ~Basically~ love this series

[@comfortzone2282]

Man im dissapointed you didn't go into more detail with the fat tadpoles and beholder experiments, those are fun

[@supportyourself3861]

"Fat tadpoles" are freakin terrifying 😨 Imagine: Your party casually walking through the underdark and suddenly you see a group of mind flayers scared shitless, not even caring that they're charging towards you. "What the fu-" and then a gargantuan worm emerges from behind a wall and one of those guys gets grabbed and instantly swallowed (like "SLURP" and he's gone). The rest simply plain shifts away. You're facing a big, fat asshole that is constantly hungry, has 3 intelligence, psionic powers (feeblemind for instance), acidic barf and sth like 375 hp, deals a tone of damage, swallows every person it attacks on a failed strength saving throw (dealing 10d6 acid dmg). Roll initiative XD

[@moistcookie4436]

Youre explanation is everything to me

[@darthxerxes5468]

I clicked because of Stranger Things and I stayed because this is really interesting

[@cartoonking1895]

Lovecraft did get over his racism later on in life.

[@braydoboss9505]

My party managed to "tame" a Mind Flayer. His name is Svenagin Eggass, prisoner in the castle Sunblight. Our ranger has a knack for collecting heads of fallen enemies, and in his bag of holding, perfectly preserved, is a meal for Eggass. He ended up being somewhat of a mascot for our group next to our caged Kobold Trex

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

2:23 wow that spelling gave me an aneurysm

[@BrickChick]

How is it properly spelled?

[@someguy9052]

Fallen Graceful Horror gith

[@fonandoozmando5961]

You forgot to add that the mind flayers DO NOT have an history, because they're not from the past, but the future

[@duncanallan6259]

I was looking for this comment. This is why the Illithid are the only things in all of creation that the Aboleths fear. They can’t remember their beginning, and the Aboleths can remember everything since the dawn of the universe.

[@RequiemPoete]

Well they do have a past. It's just that the heroes timeline hasn't caught up to it yet.

[@jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930]

Duncan Allan but isn’t that just because they come from the far realm and as such didn’t evolve on the prime material plane? That’s why the Aboleths know nothing about them, because they’re completely alien to this realm. Or at least I thought that was the explanation.

[@bromora989]

Jonathan Joestar with Pluck the Aboleths know the history about all the realms I believe, so that’s why it’s assumed the mindflayers are from the future.

[@zashgekido5616]

That.. is not how the past/future works.

[@XsigmaZ]

this was great.. ive been looking for videos like this!

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

"...four other races in the underdark" I beg to differ, sir. Goblins, orcs, ogres, quaggoth... Basically anything that can see in the dark and survive food shortages

[@NovelPilot01]

The acronym for multiversally evil and naughty in every sense is Meanies

[@anthonywarinner2259]

highkey the best dnd lore channel on youtube

[@cocomunga]

Mind Flayers and Ulitharids are a pain in the ass in Baldur’s Gate 2. Their attacks are super cheap, and transforming into one can kill anything in no time. The only way I ever really deal with them is just summoning tons of things to obstruct them, and pelt them with as many ranged attacks as I can.

[@nilsgensert5814]

"It doesn't make sense, but it does make a lot of nonsense" has to be my favourite blurb from a video ever.

[@agsilverradio2225]

Fun fact Mineflayers are time travelers from the future.

[@Perial51]

Dineflayers are cooks from the future.

[@ToonamiT0M]

At the very end of an epic campaign, a baby Mindflayer crawled in my Lizardfolk character's ear. Without hesitation, He shoved his battle pick into his ear, defining himself, but killing the tiny abomination. The final badass moment of one of my favorite characters. He went on to rule over his people and act as guardian of the last source of magic in the world.

[@justinchalifoux4424]

Coming here to know just what the hell was going on during the opening of Baldurs Gate 3

[@bronvan8036]

Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: 4 Random people: FiRsT

[@mrnonapplicable]

Pin this comment plz

[@freedomlover7768]

You missed a perfectly good opportunity to run around your back yard with spaghetti on your face

[@FlourEater]

yes, I hated / loved these ever since BG 2 !

[@GoblinLord]

gosh, don't wanna deal with the M.E.A.N.I.E.S

[@Levitz9]

Hey, who drew the Drow at 5:00? Been trying to find the artist, and reverse image-searching has been useless.

[@TheWeekendGeek]

This was really well narrated, thanks for this

[@ancientbuns6770]

Love me some HP lovecraft

[@TieragonTenorman]

EXCELLENT THANK YOU MISTER RUNESMITH! I AM VERY HAPPY MAN

[@MaddieThePancake]

4:01 how are they playing Smash Bros with Xbox controllers?

[@michaelanderson2166]

Alien psion tech.

[@MaddieThePancake]

yeah makes sense

[@Floofv]

Emulators

[@NightFlame-eb2cn]

They are 20 years advanced I'm the gaming community

[@theAnalogManifesto]

Bless this channel.

[@Random_Chiroptera]

Unless you happen to be a particularly dexterous thrall. Then you end up with the job of massaging the Elder Brain, while it feeds you feel-good thoughts and shitloads of dopamine.

[@CaptainOfAverages]

I just watched this video for the first time. And it was preceeded by a shampoo ad the started by asking "Feeling Drained?"

[@supportyourself3861]

Damn, I'm early today. And you just made my morning better than it already was 😆

[@mrslasher1064]

I played a whole game where the players started at level 20 and it was fucking glorious,the players myself included were all very experienced,the reason why we were at level 20 is because we needed alot of skills in order to deal with the Eldritch horrors and incredibly powerful aberrations that our DM had in his setting,like we had a level 20 soul knife mystic join our game for all of 5 minutes before his character got fucking annihilated by having one of his own psychic energy blasts bounced back at him by a mind witness,my character was half and half,he had 10 levels of blood hunter (order of the mutant) and 10 levels of fighter (gunslinger) I used a sword mainly,but I could also use a 10 shot revolver which I refered to as "big iron" (real original I know) so I could attack 3 times,action surge and attack another 3 times and my dm allowed me to add my crimson rite to those attacks,he also allowed me to add my crimson rite to my bullets which was pretty epic...

[@Tar0B0I]

Basically is such a good series, keep it up

[@the_fouser]

Who else is here because of Baldur's gate?

[@nadia-bg5uy]

this is *so* easy to understand AND it’s entertaining. thank you!

[@JasperCoen]

Now that was epic

[@kubapaluszak630]

I know this wideo is almost 2 years on yt while i'm writing it, but I'll write it anyway. You inspierd me! I've got idea how I can push my campaign in some nasty direction. Thanks to your storytelling :P Great job dude!

[@malcolmcampbell3912]

You confused Gith with Zerthimon.

[@jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930]

Malcolm Campbell if memory serves, Gith was the one that led the revolution against the Mind Flayers and hence why the Gith are called the Gith. After she disappeared though, two leaders arose, Vlaakith the Lich Queen who led the Githyanki, and Zerthimon who led his followers to Limbo and who’d eventually become the Githzerai.

[@malcolmcampbell3912]

Zerthimon figured out how to break the mental control of the Illithid. He also served as a spiritual leader. Gith was the warrior and lead The People in battle. When the Illithid were defeated Gith wanted to kill the rest of them and conquer the universe while Zerthimon disagreed. The pronouncement of two skies ensued and a battle broke out in which Zerthimon was killed and the people divided into the Githyanki and the Githzerai.

[@malcolmcampbell3912]

Read The Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon from Planescape: Torment. It's beautifully written and not very long.

[@drakonyanazkar]

I knew 70-80% of that and still I found the video very useful, for it put everything into some kind of order and I also had some laughs. Now what I really need is the aboleth video. I'm running a campaign with an aboleth mastermind.

[@KJ-ud9uf]

If mind flayers created ropers im telling the gith where they live

[@supportyourself3861]

No, they made urophions (the nightmarish version of roper that stuns you whenever it grabs you while being 50 feet away and eating a brain per turn) Luckily this doesn't exist in 5e I'm playing 😫

[@KJ-ud9uf]

Support Yourself oh thank god

[@MaddieThePancake]

I thought that they'd be in Volo's Guide to Monsters, but apparently not.

[@supportyourself3861]

@@MaddieThePancake I searched through Mordekeinen but *thankfully* it's not there 😰

[@MaddieThePancake]

@Support Yourself yeah thank goodness

[@pedroscoponi4905]

There's also Alhoons, which are mind-flayers that can use arcane magic. Everyone hates them because they're _individual_ , ew. Some of these Alhoons can apparently become liches as well. That's literally what the wikis call an "Illithilich". D&D is wonderful, you guys.

[@ninjawiz7932]

Actually, mind flayers that use magic are called mind flayer arcanists. Alhoons are basically a bunch of arcanists who got too impatient to become liches the regular way, so they became undead spellcasters with a shared phylactery.

[@supportyourself3861]

Yeah, um... (sarcasm intensifies) Yes, I like the idea. It's nice to have a lich who can additionally stun the whole party and eat your bran 😆

[@PitouTV]

tell me why i watched this video and the next day balders gate 3 was announced with mind flayers as the main enemy

[@teglesifer]

THEM MINDFLAYERS ARE READING YOUR MIND YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@crusaderking2257]

Good timing for BG3

[@craicrushna7638]

in 3.5 they weren't evil. The aberrations handguide said so. They are just terrified of the Elder Brain.

[@supportyourself3861]

And in 5e the elder brain is messing with them but they have NO idea. Rip.

[@ParaisoFlower]

I learned a lot in this one. Almost as much as the truth about elephants. I only wish it taught me what mind flayers think about flumphs. Or what flumphs think of mind flayers. Or elephants.

[@supportyourself3861]

Idk what do mind flayers think of flumphs but flumphs totally suck psionic powers from the colony to feed without them even knowing and not doing any harm. So, you know... :)

[@jaimyyelvingtonmusic]

I just discovered your channel and I love it. Excellent work!

[@geradosolusyon511]

The whole gith thing could have been easily resolved by not enslaving giths at all. If they really do loop every time then they would've realized that the gith slave thing doesn't work. So either they just big dumdum or the time leaping is a one time thing.

[@alejandromendozasarmiento7281]

Basically Aboleths please, I love those Aberrations. Those cute multiple tentacles and eyes.

[@midknight1339]

Ex-cuse me? "Gith" is pronounced "jiff!"

[@zashgekido5616]

IT BEGINS AGAIN

[@getthegoons]

I like to treat Mind Flayers like the outside context problem they are. One day the party watches a shooting star in the sky. Within a week, a village calls for aid, saying something is wrong. People are turning up with holes in their heads, empty skulls, with slimy residue around the holes. There's also an odd overabundance of 'Tadpoles' in the local pond but eh... The party decides to stake out the village that night, and witnesses the end of an attack, and watch the figure zoom off into the night. Chasing it down they find a crater, with a pulsating stone. The average player would definitely kill the Mind Flayer. Probably the stone too. But the pond is still full of the baby flayers. Soon people who fish there come back weird. Them and their families become shut ins. Long story short the pond becomes a elder brain pool, the village becomes a Mind Flayer Colony, and your fantasy world is getting hit with aliens.