Illithid
| Average Height: 5’ 5" - 6' 2" Average Weight: 160 - 190lb. Ability Scores: +2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma or Dexterity Languages: Deep Speech, telepathy 10, choice of one other Alien Mind: You receive a racial bonus of +1 to your Will defense. Grasping Tentacles: If you hit a target with an unarmed basic melee attack, you can choose to grab the target as a free action with no attack roll. Mind Blast: You gain the Mind Blast racial power |
| Mind Blast | Illithid Racial Power | ||
| You invade the minds of your opponent, filling them with otherworldly thoughts that wrack their minds and bodies. | |||
| Encounter ✦ Psychic | |||
| Standard Action | Ranged 5 | ||
| Target: One creature | |||
| Attack: Wisdom+2 vs Will, Charisma +2 vs. Will, or Intelligence +2 vs. Will | |||
| Hit: 1d4 + Charisma modifier psychic damage and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn. | |||
| Increase to +4 bonus and 2d4 + Charisma modifier psychic damage at 11th level, and to +6 bonus and 3d4 + Charisma modifier psychic damage at 21st level. | |||
| Special: When you create your character, choose Wisdom, Charisma, or Intelligence as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. | |||
To the uninitiated, Mind Flayers are alien and horrifying, the stuff the nightmares are made of. To the races of the Underdark, they’re simply the pink, tentacle-headed machine to be raged against.
Illithids are well known underground for having enslaved nearly all the other intelligent races at some point or another. No one really knows where they came from, since they seem too alien to be natural, but most just assume it was some horrible magical experiment. In fact that could be the reason why a lot of Underdark-ians hate high magic.
These days the Mind Flayers pass their time hunting for brains and trying to restore the might of their former subterranean empire, since clearly they are the superior race.
Play an illithid if you want...
- to eat brains.
- to have tentacles on your face.
- to be a member of the supreme race.
Contents
Racial Feats
Heroic Tier
Far-Reaching Mind Blast
Prerequisite: Illithid, mind blast racial power
Benefit: Your mind blast power increases to Ranged 10.
Illithid Senses
Prerequisite: Illithid
Benefit: You gain low-light vision. You gain a +1 feat bonus to Perception and Insight checks.
Paragon Tier
Horrific Mind
Prerequisite: Illithid, mind blast racial power
Benefit: Use d6s for the damage roll of your mind blast power instead of d4s. In addition, the target is stunned instead of dazed.
