Making A Wish Creates New D&D Monster In Mordenkainen's

The Oblex, one of the new monsters featured in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, is a creation of Make-A-Wish recipient Nolan Whale.

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Jeremy Crawford describes the Oblex; "While oozes are typically mindless blobs that slowly slink around dungeons and consume mindless prey, the oblex can absorb the thoughts and memories of a person they attack. When an elder Oblex consumes enough memories, it creates Oblex Spawn...which are essentially the excess memories of the victims an Oblex can no longer absorb." The Oblex are the result of experiments by the Mind Flayers.

​Whale's character, a mohawked and tattooed dwarf, appears as one of the pieces of art in the book. Comicbook.com reported this information.

You can learn more about the Oblex and Whale's contributions to Modenkainen's here:

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[gyor]

I hope the kid survives some how, he has real talent as a gam
e designer.

 

[plisnithus8]

Your title led me to believe casting the Wish spell might create a monster as an unintentional side-effect of something from MtoF.

 

[Gardens & Goblins]

Your title led me to believe casting the Wish spell might create a monster as an unintentional side-effect of something from MtoF.

Same. Which, while the promo spiel was ok and all, would have been much more interesting!

 

[Pokelefi]

I realy like this monster the story is very touching

 

[EthanSental]

nicely done!

 

[electroraccoon]

Very nice monster rich with lore ! Great Job !

 

[tgmoore]

Cool monster! A clever Oblex might use a hollow throne, hole in a wall, trapdoor in floor, etc to conceal the gelatinous umbilical. Further enhancing its ability to present itself as a real person who can then send our intrepid Adventurers to their doom!

 

[dwayne]

Think about this alone adventure stops for the night for shelter at an old farmhouse, the family invites him in and they set down to a meal but he is the only one eating. He begins to notice that there are many table cloths and long chair covers and the floor is covered in straw. He catches what he thinks something moving under the floor straw. and he takes a peek under the table to see a blob of fleshy colored mass. Now he sees one conected to his lag so now it is too late as he has always been here as the last bit of his arm disappears under the table in to the blob he is looking at.

 

[Quartz]

Cool monster! A clever Oblex might use a hollow throne, hole in a wall, trapdoor in floor, etc to conceal the gelatinous umbilical. Further enhancing its ability to present itself as a real person who can then send our intrepid Adventurers to their doom!

Give it some means of Invisibility and you're set.

I presume that this thing is ordinarily evil, but a neutral one might make for a more interesting character, perhaps even a patron.

The Oblex also seems to be very like - but much nastier than - the Feyr from one of the Dragon Annuals.