D&D 5E Does an Intellect Devourer "Possess" Its Victim?

[Kobold Stew]

I wish the intellect devourer had to make a vehicle check to pilot a humanoid body sometimes.

Another tax on martials.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Another tax on martials.

I read that as "another tax on martinis" and was preparing to write my congresscritters.

 

[Kobold Stew]

It's not much of a joke in the first place.