Exploring Dungeons and Dragons: Mind Flayers

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

>Discover a way to extinguish the Sun >Main source of food needs the Sun to make their own food Flawless plan

[@TheExploringSeries]

Well, they feed on plenty of underground creatures, they just prefer surface creatures. Not all of them are onboard with the extinguish plan, but the ones that are assume the elder brains will sort out any problems.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

@@TheExploringSeries ah, I see

[@dantzy2526]

you again.

[@indraservo5764]

Remind me of elder scroll's vampire

[@MrDalisclock]

Step 1: extinguish sun Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!

[@probablythedm1669]

Fun, nerdy details. Illithid is Undercommon (the trade language of the Underdark races). Illi = mind. Thid = flayer, ruler. Hence "Mindflayer". Alhoon (the so called Illithilich) is formed from "Al = death, dead". "Hoon = abomination, outsider". So "Deathabomination", or some such. Ulitharid (who go on to become elder brains) are "Uli = noble". "Tharid = devour, devourer". So "Nobledevourer". I have a character who speaks Undercommon, so I learned some silly trivia as I wanted to get an idea what it might sound like. :)

[@the11382]

So what happens when an Ulitharid casts the hive away and becomes magically inclined? Does it become an Alhoon or does it become an "Ulihoon"?

[@probablythedm1669]

@@the11382 I think it would just be killed, because the Ulitharid is already a god in its own view, as it will become an Elder Brain, who are themselves immortal beings that exist on two planes at once and live forever (unless killed). It has no need of arcane magic, it just needs to mature, gather followers (as in dominate them with its godlike mind) and set out to live its best life as a new Elder Brain for the rest of eternity. Illithid also veiw arcane magic as a lesser form of power than the psionics their whole society is based on. Remember, they use Psionics for everything. Giving up psionics is like giving up your arms and legs for prostetic ones, instead of going to the gym to bulk up like the rest of the hive. That is why those who do are killed or kicked out like deviant freaks, since their society and technology could not function without psionics. Hence an Ulitharid would have no use for arcane magic. If anything its dabbling in arcane magic is just a stupid distraction, like having 21 Intelligence, 15 strength and 16 levels in Wizard, then deciding "I wanna be a barbarian!" at level 17 "because fuck 9th level spells, I'm gonna melee and rage, magic is for nnnnnnnneeeeeerds!" Odds are its followers euthanize it because it's obviously had a stroke, gone insane, and become a threat to the whole community. They'd be giving up godhood to become worse at everything... I don't see why anyone of them would ever do that. The Ulitharid are the only winners in Illithid society (along with the Elder Brains) as they actually get to become immortal. Also, odds are that roughly a hundred Illithid would instantly cry out in psionic confusion and slay the abomination. TL;DR: It would become a "Al hoon", a "dead abomination". Slain in "xalli", disgust, by the other Illithid and the Elder Brain that spawned it. :P

[@Swarthy144k]

@@probablythedm1669 So I'm guessing when BG3 comes out you will be allowing your character to become an illithid for experimentation purposes just like me huh :P Do you think think the transformation will still work in Astarion seeing as how he's a vampire spawn, an undead. Quite frankly I don't even know why he was abducted in the first place since the source material keeps saying that the illithids fear the undead. 🤔

[@probablythedm1669]

@@Swarthy144k I might and I agree that sticking a tatpole in a vampire is odd. His brain should be dead. But then as a vampire he has some mimicry of life, unlike most undead he's not rotting, so maybe he counts as a fermented snack? Or a canned one? :P

[@Battleguild]

I thought Deep Speech was their primary language, and they learned Undercommon from their consistent diet of Underdark races who speak the language.

[@ralphsimpson4657]

Man imagine a neothelid crawling inside a sleeping giants ear. Is that how we get Cthulhu

[@CarsonZXY]

I award you one internet. You earned it.

[@muzankibutsuji622]

I shall award you two internet

[@dragonlord498]

the neothelid though is too big to enter even a giant ear

[@dukedevlan5457]

@@dragonlord498 What about a storm giant

[@dragonlord498]

@@dukedevlan5457 neothelids are gargantuan so even a storm giant couldn't have one crawl into it's ear

[@Not_Ciel]

You normally do SCP stuff and I'm here for that. You've started doing D&D stuff and, as an avid D&D player, I'm *REALLY* here for that.

[@Stormkrow280]

You haven’t been a regular viewer until recently have you?

[@falconpv1]

He does a bunch of stuff. If you look at his whole channel he's done LotR, DnD, SCP, Lovecraft, Elder Scrolls, etc.

[@clutchmustango]

Thats all im saying when he started doing these i felt an energy emanating from my 20 sided die tattoo and realized that the cosmos alligned and delivered greatness upon youtube.

[@KS-PNW]

Seriously love the dnd stuff!

[@RumblesBettr]

What is SCP it makes no sense to me

[@Ankylosaurus_mangiventris]

Brainsuckers in Bloodborne made me hate these guys before I even knew who they were.

[@jacopoarmini7889]

now I want to make an illithid adventurer who disguises as a wizard through illusion magic, despite being an outcast for his use of sorcery he decided to begin his journey in order to find a way to fix the "complicated" way his species feeds and make so that they can live in peace alongside the other races, mostly because he fears that they'll go extinct if they continue down this path.

[@JohnBrown-tw2qi]

I’ve considered something similar, but instead it is a normal infant mind flayer artificer that hasn’t started transforming the human body it hijacked yet so that they could infiltrate human society to discover new methods of cultivating brains and to research Magic’s that could destroy the sun.

[@probablythedm1669]

I'd suggest making that Illithid the most dreaded thing in in their culture: one who remembers who and what they were before cerebromorphosis. Effectivelu the host creatures mind having taken over the illithid tadpole, rather than the other way around. This is why the mindflayers kill any who show deviant behavior, such as those who study magic. Hence, you've got a lore friendly (possibly friendly) illithid. Sure, the original creature is dead, but also lives on as the dominant mind in the mindflayer. Could be cool. As for infiltration, they've got psionic mind-control for that. Or, if they want perfect slaves, can just replace a persons brain with an intellect devourer. This makes rhem extremely nasty threats, as anyone could be working for them. Your friend, or even your spouse, could be long dead, taken over by an intellect devourer. But you'd have no idea... unless you caught them doing something strange or used magic to reveal the truth.

[@jacopoarmini7889]

@@probablythedm1669 to be honest, my idea was not to have him remember who he was, by all means he's just your average illithid, an anticonformist one for sure, but with nothing special about himself. He's just as cold and calculating as they come, but has arrived to the conclusion that either his race stops being evil and creepy, or gets eradicated by the surface dwellers, hence his efforts in finding a replacement for human brains.

[@probablythedm1669]

@@jacopoarmini7889 that works too. Illithids are only forced to act evil while part of the collective under the Elder Brain. I'd suggest keeping in mind your Illithid no longer gets eternal life by joining the Elder Brain on death, since this is why they don't have religion (even if this is a lie and the Elder Brain actually just absorb their memories), as this is core to their sense of superiority over all others. This is why those who realize this often try to become liches, to gain actual immortality. Also, you can just grow brains to eat from non-humanoids. It's probably not a great food source, since you still need to wreck a creatures brain into becoming a little eddible monster... But that way you can bring along some pickled ustilagors as rations (basically baby intellect devourers), in case you're in a place without brains to eat.

[@TheHornedKing]

I have had that idea for a few months now. Even made my own homebrew race on DnDBeyond (haven't made it public though).

[@TheHalogen131]

I remember how Drizzt in one of the books, kicked one Illithid in his nuts. That was quite funny :D

[@Crankerization]

They have nuts?

[@TheHalogen131]

@@Crankerization Apparently, yeah. Or something resembling them. When an Illithidn had Drizzt in its grasp, there was a quick deduction: They have two legs. We know what most of two-legged humanoids have between those legs. So Drizzt kicked it right there. Illithid's sight became murky and its grasp loosened, so it clearly worked. And since Drizzt already tried punching and other forms of defence to no avail, a conclusion is simple: They have something very sensitive between their legs.

[@Crankerization]

@@TheHalogen131 Fascinating

[@dragowolfraven3806]

Yes it was funny to read

[@probablythedm1669]

They are supposedly sexless, according to the lore. But they still all lay eggs, so it'd make sense they'd have something replace the genitals of the host creature. Even if they just have a tube for laying eggs, odds are good that a kick in the groin still hurts a lot. :P

[@Marklord13]

The mindflayers are the villains in the upcoming baldur’s gate 3 video game with the protagonist having a mindflayer tadpole in their head.

[@weejas]

So, their young enter through head holes and take over - sounds like they inspired the Ceti eels from "Wrath of Kahn". The adults have octopoid heads and are subservient to an elder brain - sounds like they inspired the Ood. That's a crossover I *really* don't want!

[@tonyprice4259]

There is a really chill mindflayer in Baldurs gate 3 in the underdark

[@Tengu125]

Imagine encountering one and being a Great Old One pact Warlock? You play along, pretending to be psychically stunned, only to stab them in the chest and slitting their throat with your pact blade when they get in range :D If they could utter the words they'd be going "the f*ck?!", and then you've got all you need to craft yourself an "Octo-Hat of N'ihon"; a top tier silly head ornament with a +1 to Fear or Charm Female Easterlings!

[@jacobfreeman5444]

I would think they would be able to sense if you are stunned, but it would still be a surprise you could so easily brush off the attack. It is easily one of their biggest tactical advantages.

[@brunohommerding3416]

Thats the thing about a mindflayer, you cannot ever surprise them, because they probably sensed your thoughts before you even got close(unless you had some means to avoid it). Stll, even if you find a way to shield your mind, he would probably sense your companions thoughts.. and they are REALLY intelligent, so they would pobably be prepared for any possible scenario in which they had to escape if needed. Mindflayer is the kind of enemy that you simply cannot bruteforce to victory, they are always 2-3 steps ahead and should be very well prepared even in situations that dont exactly go as planned for them. Short answer is: if you surprise a mindflayer, the DM is probably doing it a disservice. Unless ofcourse the party came up with some very creative ideas, but still it should be extremelly hard.

[@Tengu125]

@@brunohommerding3416 Fair enough, but it would be pretty cool if you manage to find a way that doesn't clash with the campaign's story :)

[@brunohommerding3416]

@@Tengu125 Oh deninitely, thats why i said it would depend on the creativity of the party. Which should always be rewarded imo :)

[@Seoul_Soldier]

Bruno Hommerding I think the Mindflayer would be more curious as to why they can’t read your thoughts. Since if you remember, a great old one warlock gets thought shield at level 10 which makes your thoughts unreadable and I highly doubt you’ll face an illithid before that level.

[@robinisi3354]

just when my dinner is ready i see this video i am blessed

[@Bawks_FEET]

Just as I sit on the toilet at the gym ready to drop a deuce this video dropped #Blessed 🙏🙏🙏

[@michaelclawson4459]

no doubt....freakin love this channel

[@SORRYBUTYOURENEXT]

I’m making dinner as I watch

[@basti0n553]

keep doing theres I've never played dungeons and dragons but I love hearing you talk about it

[@PapaThiccc]

This is by far my favorite channel. From the SCP stuff to D&D and everything in between. I love lore it's my favorite part of fantasy world's. Plus being in the time zone that I am I normally wake up to the vids. So I get to start my morning off right.

[@jamesmowdy8528]

For sure, I wait every week for this channel and the Volgun has good stuff too. However, the Volgun does a subjective rather than objective point of view.

[@UGNAvalon]

“Volgun does a subjective POV” - Doesn’t Volgun just read straight from the article itself, with only a brief intro/outro indicating a lecture-room setting? How does that make it “more subjective”? :/

[@jamesmowdy8528]

@@UGNAvalon I wouldn't disagree with that statement at all. The Volga does it "in-character" as Dr. Miller. Taking it further to make side remarks about the privileges he has in comparison to others within the SCP foundation staff. Here, it is just a straight up shot at the lore. I enjoy both for their unique way in which the narrative is laid out. Then there is the SCP Eastside Show, I like to listen to it as well. Also, each channel covers different SCP's. . .and it is really great when they happen to cover the same. Idk. . . let me know what you think.

[@UGNAvalon]

For Volgun, I personally miss the days when he adapted Tales, or made semi-original works based on existing lore (his D-Class Orientation vid comes to mind). It was a way for him to exercise/display his creative talents (esp voice work), and was much more engaging than the comparatively-“boring” method of just reading straight off the wiki. (At least nowadays he adds self-made 3D illustrations with the readings.) For me, if a channel is doing straight readings, they should add some kind of personal flair to make their vids stand out from all the other “just another reader” channels out there. SCP Illustrated comes to mind (self-made illustrations with all the articles/logs , reading Descriptions before Containment Procedures). Volgun’s current flair is his superb audio work, especially when there’s multiple characters involved. (Then there’s his special ending to “Where the Dragons Went - Object Class: Neutralized(?)”

[@void9165]

Man gotta say been following you for years now one of the best narrating voices ever you take no time of getting immersed in what he's going to narrate 👍

[@somerandomguy844]

Alhoons and Illithiliches are two separate undead. Alhoons are more pseudo-liches, who act as a collective and actually have a limited lifespan, beyond their periapt of mind trapping (or their pseudo-phylactery) being destroyed. Alhoons can also only be killed once, as they do not resurrect upon being killed. The Alhoon lives out a lifespan equal to that that remains of the sacrifices, and thus do have a time limit on their own time as an undead. It is also a collective feat, and not that of an individual, requiring at least three Arcanists. It’s essentially a shortcut, rather than the long road of a typical lich. Hope this helps others who were confused.

[@adorablecockroach5131]

Also that vampire mind flayers lose their intelligence and become feral beasts hungry for brains and blood.

[@RobotsOnFire]

w/ The Pentagon recently stating they have "offworld vehicles not made on this earth" it would be so cool if you could touch on the alien species from ufology

[@muninrob]

"Our Empire was, is, and will be. We WILL snuff out the stars, we already have, and in doing so ensure our starvation. We will flee this disaster by escaping back to the beginning of time, sowing the seeds of our own inevitable victory that is our inevitable doom. Surrender, for your resistance really is.....futile"

[@MatthewSmith-sz1yq]

One of my favorite theories is that the sun is somehow involved/responsible for their future empire's collapse. Maybe there is some sort of "psyonic solar flare," or something similar. This is why they are so focused on getting rid of the sun, because it's one of the few things blocking them from rising to power.

[@TheZoobZoobs]

The only Mind Flayer I know is one who is obsessed with being tidy, is Hastur's brother and has adopted a little witch he's teaching magic to.

[@SORRYBUTYOURENEXT]

I’m either making dinner or laying down/watching KZbin when this comes on.

[@jacked4121]

Or gaming hardcore through the night to distract myself from this horrid reality.

[@randomdog4867]

OR POOPING

[@AdamRoss1]

Cool story.

[@heyheyhey7283]

You checked KZbin and found a KZbin video? Insanity.

[@kungfuskull]

I was so hoping you'd cover my favorite dnd monster, thank you! I wish there was even more depth you coulf have covered, they are so interesting.

[@Sara3346]

There is more depth he could have covered, for example he was talking only about the most common and dangerous metamorphoses, but there is more to them. This is a nice video covering some of the more Uncommon variations: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYitaGZ8erGdn7s

[@FranzFerdinand76]

An interesting aspect is that a society of creatures so high on negative emotions and an inherently evil nature can maintain peace and continuity among themselves. Seems they would be highly prone to political maneuvering, corruption and warfare. What is their code, laws, and what prevents them from cannibalism? Is this managed all by the mother brain? If it is, is it by direct control or by commandments?

[@cassiswyrm8121]

If I remember right the minds of adult mindflayers are at least particularly connected by their psychic powers. So one mindflayer might put itself above another one, but in the way that a person puts their dominant hand above their non-dominant hand. If you can only save one the answer is obvious, but it wouldn't make sense to go out of your way to hurt the other outside of some extreme circumstance. I think.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Basically they usually don't seem themselves as wholly separate. More like extensions of their elder brain. Sometimes an exception shows up but they are usually driven out. Or do things that cause them to flee. Those that remain all pretty much think the same on the issue.

[@probablythedm1669]

What Jacob Freeman said. They are a collective, dominated by their elder brain. Any deviant is driven out or killed. Even an Ulitharid eventually leaves, as they are the only form of illithid not under the elder brains control, to form their own illithid community and become an elder brain themselves.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

I always understood them as pretty much a hive mind, no room for politics in the swarm.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts They can have some individuality, but it is always in service to the community. Those that don't do so are either exiled or killed. No room for those who would pursue individuality for the sake of the individual. Thus if you meet a lone mindflayer it could be one that got lost from its community or it could be an exile whose heretical thoughts had to be purged.

[@kungfuskull]

Really wish you'd delved into the whole other world origins thing, and space empire, etc, there's so much more cool stuff to talk about with mindflayers. Hoping for a part 2!

[@sarafontanini7051]

In my setting, Illithid are a playable race, being one of the few races capable of casting magic (wich is much rarer than in D&D). Illithids are actually a symbiotic fusing of a small squidlike larva and a member of a bipedal race, and these Illithids go around to spread and learn knowledge to in turn share with their creatore, a massive squid creature who stores knowledge for others. A major potential antagonist is an Illithid who went mad and tries to devour people's brains to absorb their knowledge...even though that's not how it works at all, and all he ends up doing is kill people.

[@boianko]

The last part seems pretty ridiculous. After like the 4th brain, unless the guy is not only mad but also an idiot, the guy should figure out that he's not actually absorbing any knowledge. Also how do you deal with the fact that Ilithids need to, you know, brutally kill people every 2 weeks to feed, when they're played by a player?

[@sarafontanini7051]

@@boianko my setting has a whole bunch of stuff different, its mostly based AROUND D&D concepts and changing or messing with them to make a new experience. Also Ibecause I'm a weirdo who wants to be 'different' and wanted to have a change for a player to be a neautral good Illithid thief so nya. also I didn't actually know that about D&D mind flayers so that's why. and yes the dude IS an idiot, I mean he's the dude who decided "OBVIOUSLY if I'm not getting knowledge from eating brains I'm not trying ahrd enough or eating enough brains". I never said he was actually a genius, just a crazy dude who ate brains.

[@gfox00029]

My favorite alien/eldritch society, thanks for the vid dude.

[@nathanxxvii]

I'm more of an SCP fan but I've dabbled in D&D throughout my life.. had to listen to this one and I wasn't disappointed.

[@chongumba7245]

I think the githyanki (although they are from more recent editions) are vital to understanding mindflayer lore. They were one a slave race that was once under mondflayer control. They rebelled and have the goal of exterminating all mindflayers.

[@locustoffamine2644]

0:20 out of the corner of your eye you spot him Shia Labeouf

[@Shythalia]

What great timing of you to make this video. I don't play D&D so this was very informative. I got plans on drawing a follower's illithid OCs.

[@geoffreycannon2197]

How did I miss this? Mind Flayers are one of my favorite monsters in dungeons and dragons.. thanks for sharing it, at any rate!

[@IshtheStomach]

At first as I was all, "Our dark lord Cthu'lhu?" Then I heard the phrase "four mouth tentacles" and I was all, "why not Zoidberg?"

[@adorablecockroach5131]

We must appease the great elder zoidbrain with ANCHOVIES!

[@optillian4182]

Woopwoopwoopwoopwoopwoopwoop!

[@Phoebe5448]

I now want a Zoidberg Mind Flayers D&D series.

[@goodoljotaro12]

Came for the Cthulhu, stayed for the SCP, here for the D&D

[@-lgoonareternall-3772]

Sooooooo they wanna extinguish the sun. What if they kidnapped the Kuo-Toa to experiment on them and realized their experiments allowed the fish bois to create gods, and tried to manipulate them to create a god which could destroy the sun, but it horribly backfired and this god wreaked havoc on the mind flayers, so they drop the fish men off where they stole them and focused on other ways to destroy the sun?

[@cernunnos_lives]

Absolutely love Underdark lore and ecology. Faerun has decades worth of backdrop to it.

[@forgettable8300]

Unfortunately for the poor beast i am a barbarian class and its mind controlling powers have no effect as i am to dumb to follow simple orders so the beast starves as it has no minds to feed on but it made a nice lunch xD

[@natzo89]

*Tower of Latria flashbacks*

[@guineamations3743]

Tentacle boy: "I am super strong muhahahaha" Me: kills him using 2 spells and some one liners

[@melanthahoang831]

Me using vicious mockery "Not today you Squidward knock off"

[@lcamp1977]

Mind flayer: *laughs in 90% magic resistance

[@themightytrainthurnax6613]

Do not be afraid, I am not your enemy. I am peace, I am salvation. I am a timeless chorus, a sweet unity of purpose. Join your voice with mine and sing victory, everlasting!

[@AzraelElysium]

Ah, the most lovecraftian of D&D monsters, instantly reminding me of eldritch horrors such as Cthulhu, Hastur and Shudde M'ell.

[@Kucoz]

Oh good now I'm addicted to another of tour series after binging a few.

[@gacku7847]

I would love to see videos about each of the individual planes. I've done so much reading already but I love this stuff lol

[@christianwhite8877]

I have a necromancer who's best friends with a mind flayer (and is well aware of that) so I'm thinking that one of the few ways that's possible is the mind flayer in question would have to be an outcast (mostlikely banished from the hive mind) so I'm guessing they decided to learn magic (They sometimes still use their psionics from time to time) but because my necromancer character is siphoning off divine energy from the dead deity version of orcus (it's represented by a few death cleric levels and they they doing this to help them become a deity of life and death) they are probably enemy's of the abyss (the abyss is where demons are from) so my necromancer character and there best friend who is a mind flayer probably are allys of devils

[@christianwhite8877]

I meant to say they are doing this but auto correct is annoying

[@MrDalisclock]

The big brain am winning again! Now I am leaving for no raisin!

[@sarafontanini7051]

You are the greetest?

[@Tengu125]

@@sarafontanini7051 Yes.

[@optillian4182]

I understood that reference.

[@SA-mo3hq]

I am swelling with patriotic mucus

[@JazzyFizzleDrummers]

I wasn't paying full attention and I saw the upper tentacles in the thumbnail as the lower jaw of a fishman with its mouth agape

[@RobotsOnFire]

Bro, you make the best D&D vids on the site. More dark D&D pleeeease bro :)

[@Battleguild]

Can you cover failed Mind Flayers? The ones where humanoids undergo ceramorphosis, but the process fail at some point. For example: Mind Flayer brain stuck in a humanoid body. Or Humanoid brain stuck in a Mind Flayer body.

[@NoInfoAvail]

Good video as always! Just finished part three of apotheosis! Also I wonder if a casting of the goodberry spell would satisfy a mindflayers hunger? The spell says it provides the body with sustenance for an entire day.

[@kashmirtheowl3045]

Great videos man! I feel ravenloft, dark sun, and ESPECIALLY dragonlance deserve to be explored! 😁

[@vcxlll]

I know some people that mindflayers would hesitate to go near, even if you paid them to. Just nothing good to eat in the noggins in these people.

[@refractedcurvature3567]

They may need to look into producing an alternative before the lack of food becomes well known and they start fighting over the slim pickins.lol.or I wonder if idiot brains are for mindflayers trying to lose weight?

[@Chaos_Rising]

i have watched a lot of Illithid lore videos these past days (so yours came at a really good time xD) Honestly i liked yours the best. Good work and thank you!

[@draochvar9646]

Illithids try to capture the party > fight breaks out > lotsa noise > alert nearby Gith hunting party 》result: massive clusterfuck, loads of dead Cthulu-heads, new story hooks with the gith. DnD is fun.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

I’m surprised they don’t use their devotion to psionic abilities to lure hosts to them

[@MisterTutor2010]

Mind Flayer goes nuts from consuming the brain of someone with Mad Cow Disease :)

[@TitansTracks]

_Mindflayers absorbs my mind_ "Why does that music keep playing?? And what the hell is a *SUPER-POWERED-ACTION-FIGHTING-MIGHTY-MORPHIN-ROBOT-SPACE-MAN* !?"

[@redfaux74]

Great video! ❤ But I feel you only scratched the surface of my skull with this one. I would've loved to hear more about their "powers". The Illythid completely shattered DnD tactics with their new addition of psionics. 99.9% of people were not able to engulf the scope of telepathic combat and mental abilities without magic. The Psionicist Handbook was a beginning glimpse into this brand new cerebral arena. DnD added a few highlights but destroyed psionics by making it another branch of magic. Giving Illythids and their pets more skill levels in Psionics makes them top tier monstrosities and takes the campaign to much greater depths that only the truly mentally elite can dare to internally plunge. Sheer physical biology is only a gateway to this new dimension of terror.

[@educatedlaziness3268]

I really wanna play as an Ilithid exile in a campaign, particularly one that was made from the body of a sorceror, playing as that class

[@mr.dunkells]

This channel is particularly useful for me. I like dnd. I like scp. I like talking videos. Perfect.

[@tyreejeballard]

Yes, I love the exploring Dungeons and Dragons videos

[@zebmaxwell7979]

a DnD companion where the mind Layers succeed, and only small outpost of magically light cities survive on the surface.

[@gabem.397]

I think spelljammer stuff would be great for the channel, I've got a soft spot for space travel

[@marthachampagne316]

kinda forgot that an ulitharid is the juvenile form of an elder brain, kinda an important fact.

[@askashik]

I read somewhere that the mind flayers genuinely fear that eventually something that would retain it's memories after being turned into a mind flayer. This individual would be immensely powerful as well, but I can't remember the name for it. I'm still trying to figure out why nobody else has even hinted at this.

[@JordonVirtue]

Also they, in some lore, used to have an empire in which they had enslaved the gith. Both species of gith.

[@judowes]

ah the creatures that got me into dnd

[@adinocc2042]

Lots of great artwork in this one.

[@tomisabum]

Rev up those Spelljammers!

[@chantalsilvestri4185]

More D&D for surreeeee my friend, love it!

[@chantalsilvestri4185]

Forgot to say; Im obsessed with SCP so don't stop that, but my comment still stands lol

[@jagofjokester1127]

The thumbnail is mom when something triggers her biopolar disorder.

[@Fulgrim2]

So if one attacks me it’ll just get memes, hentai and TES videos?

[@DeathhunterII]

The poor thing.

[@Tengu125]

Its mind won't be able withstand such immensely alien imagery, and it will either start ripping off its own tentacles while letting out agonized screeches, or keel over dead frothing at the mouth.

[@KonnyP]

@@Tengu125 It'll become a fan of tentacle hentai... ...and it has tentacles

[@shfhsvomvolakis2318]

SCP is DND in urban setting. change my mind

[@UGNAvalon]

Considering how there’s containment teams maintaining a masquerade as opposed to adventurer parties roaming around openly.....

[@TheActualMrLink]

You’re a kid, you’re a squid, illithid

[@atomicnectar]

only someone who is being controlled by a mindflayer would dislike this video

[@aidenmichael7583]

One of my players is choosing to be an Illithid and I'm so glad you made this just in time! (Now I have more lore to my world and may even have them fight a Neotholid!)

[@Firescout23]

"with one less finger on each hand" *Picture shows 5 fingers*

[@dasdeke]

Love that you keep doing these!

[@badcatsgetdissolved4506]

Ive been waiting for a video on mind flayer by this guy. So great

[@z0ned_out]

This is my first time watching your DnD and I actually enjoyed it!!

[@cruddddddddddddddd]

Noice. Can’t wait for the versions from the Demon’s Souls remake!

[@maxmatson1578]

Thank you for doing this video. I would very much appreciate if you did a video on SCP-2470 "the void singularity".

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Sounds interesting.

[@SA-mo3hq]

Yes, but what happens when we put MDMA in their tank?

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

I've been thinking about putting Mind Flayers in my Starfinder campaign. They do actually have space-ships in some D&d lore, don't they?

[@USMCRabbit]

This is the earliest I've ever been to an explorers video!

[@punishederic4761]

This series is really good man I didn't check it out at first but fuck please do more D&D

[@rileyanthony6068]

I love d&d your d&d vids feel a like a guide.

[@Sethern]

I would love an in depth look at changelings

[@shenloken2]

I wonder if Mother Brain from Metroid was inspired by Elder Brain

[@Zoniy0]

Good god ive had an ongoing campaign for 3 years and the main antagonists are a super advanced underground society of mind flayers We have lost 3 pcs to these beings, mine the only one to survive by sheer luck (revised wood elf ranger is busted) You do not want to engage unless you can stealth strike it, or pray to god that you have some way to resist or have an immunity their mind blast which is an aoe at will stun

[@dragonlord498]

Should've mentioned they have space ships

[@strangerlucky5753]

Did you tried D&D on ravnica ? ( from magic the gathering).

[@grim2871]

Dang, you didn't mention what happens when a dragon is tadpoled, essentially it turns into this weird looking dragon/mind flayer thing and can often take control of the community even over an elder brain

[@eridanos0341]

Can we get a video on the undead? Really enjoy your content btw keep up the good work :D

[@nathansingleton7532]

So, I've never played D&D before and only recently started to get into the lore of it. How many stories are there where there's all out wars between Illithid and Drow communities? Are there any sessions where players get stuck in a cave system where these wars happen?

[@changesforthebetter7172]

thats up too you dritzs is a good place to start but its really up to you to chose what they want

[@shaneduffy9063]

Love the d&d ones

[@TomatoSauceGaming626]

Baby mind flayers remind me of yeerks

[@Alexa_Temujin]

I am surprised there was no mention of their past, and their spelljamming empire. A fun fact is that some mind flayers, namely those of the worlds of the astromundi cluster and Eberron, have separate origins and reproductive cycles and sociological structures than those seen in the forgotten realms. (Even if this is based on realms, they do control one of the planets in Realmspace)

[@joelbell6075]

I want to know what would happen if a Neo-ilithid were to take over the body of a creature large enough to host it. Would that result in a Giant Mindflayer? Or something even more terrifying?

[@changesforthebetter7172]

look up brain stealer dragon by aj picket

[@milliman4]

Some small Mindflayer communities also detest deeds of evil and domination to avoid being detected and hunted by other creatures.

[@jeremyusurp5710]

3rd shift just got better. Thank god for your vids. Xoxoxo ;)

[@falconpv1]

"They want to blot out the sun" me: ooh! ilithid vampire.