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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7701962" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>This stuff is SEXXY. I am SO excited for a different kind of monster book!</p><p></p><p></p><p>You say "filler" I say plot hooks.</p><p></p><p>Here's a few I derived just from the first page:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> An ally of the PC's is kidnapped and undergoes ceremorphosis. The resulting mind flayer uses its vague memories of the party to show up where they dwell, leave trikets that remind them of their fallen friend, and spread secrets that the party thought were safe. ("I remember our long talks, about all your hopes and all your dreams..." says the creature as its tentacles stroke your cheek affectoinately. "....I wonder how they taste...")</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> An squad of githyanki are raiding the underdark to destroy an Elder Brain, and it sends a mind flayer to entreat the party - save it from these raiders and pirates, and it will agree to release the captives it's taken.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> An aged mind flayer is returning to the Elder Brain, and wreaking havoc through the countryside as it goes. The party must follow it, limit it's damage, and slay the brain it is returning to.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> In the wake of an elder brain's destruction, renegade free-willed illithids start fighting amongst themselves, wreaking great collateral damage in their efforts to dominate and control each other, and using the humans caught in the middle like pawns.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Those could fuel entire sessions of D&D. In terms of hours of use/page, this beats a statblock, any day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 7701962, member: 2067"] This stuff is SEXXY. I am SO excited for a different kind of monster book! You say "filler" I say plot hooks. Here's a few I derived just from the first page: [LIST] [*] An ally of the PC's is kidnapped and undergoes ceremorphosis. The resulting mind flayer uses its vague memories of the party to show up where they dwell, leave trikets that remind them of their fallen friend, and spread secrets that the party thought were safe. ("I remember our long talks, about all your hopes and all your dreams..." says the creature as its tentacles stroke your cheek affectoinately. "....I wonder how they taste...") [*] An squad of githyanki are raiding the underdark to destroy an Elder Brain, and it sends a mind flayer to entreat the party - save it from these raiders and pirates, and it will agree to release the captives it's taken. [*] An aged mind flayer is returning to the Elder Brain, and wreaking havoc through the countryside as it goes. The party must follow it, limit it's damage, and slay the brain it is returning to. [*] In the wake of an elder brain's destruction, renegade free-willed illithids start fighting amongst themselves, wreaking great collateral damage in their efforts to dominate and control each other, and using the humans caught in the middle like pawns. [/LIST] Those could fuel entire sessions of D&D. In terms of hours of use/page, this beats a statblock, any day. [/QUOTE]
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