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Found in the Dungeon Master Guide (1979), there are three separate charts for when the Mind Flayer attacks with its psionic abilities, one for those with psionic abilities, one for the defenseless psionic user, and another for when they attack those who do not have any psionic ability. If that makes you scratch your head, just wait till you go look at the psionic attack and damage tables. The Mind Flayer’s most feared attack is their Mind Blast, and it comes complete with a convoluted description:Īll within a 6” directional cone of 1/2” diameter at the point of enanation and 2” diameter at extreme range (psionic attack and non-psionic) Now, let’s talk about psionics, and bear with us, its a complicated mess and the designers don’t make it easy on you.
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To top all of this off, they are slimy and their skin glistens in the light, so not only does it suck you are being killed by a purple monster, but you are also getting covered in slime while their face tentacles wrap around your skull and start dancing with your brain. The creepiest part of the Mind Flayer’s anatomy, besides the face tentacles, is that its eyes are just orbs of white with no discernable pupil. The tentacles are dark purple and the fingers on its hands are reddish-purple. Their skin color is called a “nauseous mauve” which is just a nice way of saying ugly purple. The first thing we can say is… they are hideous to behold.
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Little more is revealed about the Mind Flayer though their physical description is more fleshed out, pun fully intended. There is even rumored to be Mind Flayer city somewhere underground, but as they live so deep in the earth that this has never been verified. The bad news is they spend all of their time underground in places like dungeons, planning the destruction of the world above them. The good news is that the Mind Flayer won’t wander into your town and try to suck everyone’s brains out of there heads, as they hate sunlight. When the opening paragraph of the creature’s description starts off saying that they are extremely evil and considers humanoids a tasty treat, you know they are going to be a problem.
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The Mind Flayer makes a return in the Monster Manual (1977) and continues its horrifying reputation. Psionic Ability: 241-340, Attack/Defense Modes: B/FGH Unfortunately, psionics is a huge mess to get into, but just know that the Mind Flayer is a very powerful psion and will ruin everyone’s day if you stumble across one of them, let alone up to four of them at a single time. This supplement contains a whole slew of new rules for Dungeons & Dragons including class information for the druid, demons and devils, and a new magic system known as psionics. The Mind Flayer makes it into an official publication in 1976 with the release of the Eldritch Wizardry supplement. Of course, there are major differences, like with the Egyptians it’s a dead body and with a Mind Flayer you are still alive and probably screaming. While the article does not describe how the tentacle “penetrates”, we can only imagine that it is a lot like how the ancient Egyptians would remove brains by pulling it out through the nose with a metal stick. Above its mouth, the Mind Flayer has four tentacles that are its primary method of attack that have the ability to penetrate through your head and eat your brain. Standing as tall as the average human, these creatures could never be mistaken for one.
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For most people of average intelligence, this is going to stun you or make you fall asleep, for those that aren’t very intelligent, it could kill you immediately while the most intelligent may have their minds destroyed as if they were suffering from the effects of a feeblemind spell. The Mind Flayer makes its first appearance in The Strategic Review #1 ( Spring 1975), a short-lived magazine that was the precursor to Dragon Magazine. The Mind Flayer is the first monster created for the magazine and is described as super-intelligent, but not only are they intelligent, their brains are so powerful that they can attack the minds of others with their Mind Blast ability.
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The book series is about fighting against the Great Old Ones and their worshipers, so it makes plenty of sense for why the Mind Flayers resemble those Lovecraftian horrors. In fact, Gary Gygax created the Mind Flayers and was inspired by the cover artwork for the book The Burrowers Beneath by Brian Lumley. They consume brains, they have tentacles, and they create thralls of lesser species, one would be forgiven if you referred to them as the spawn of the Great Old Ones like Cthulhu. The Mind Flayer has been around since the beginning of Dungeons & Dragons, and many know the Mind Flayer to be a part of the Illithids, a race of super-intelligent aberrations who believe themselves to be the dominant species of the multiverse.