D&D 5E Chris Perkins and Todd Kenreck Talk About Mind Flayers

[SakanaSensei]

“The mind flayers, as a race, do have a goal, and their leaders devote much effort toward finding a way to achieve it. Because they loathe the light of day and hate being limited to the confining chambers of the Underdark, the mind flayers quest to destroy that which bars them from the surface world: they seek to douse the fires of the sun itself!” DSG, page 74.

This sounds really cool until my brain thinks about it for a little bit. Like, if y'all put out the sun, entire ecosystems are gonna go to crap fast and THEN whose brains you gonna be eatin'?

 

[overgeeked]

This sounds really cool until my brain thinks about it for a little bit. Like, if y'all put out the sun, entire ecosystems are gonna go to crap fast and THEN whose brains you gonna be eatin'?

The brains of all the things that live underground that will then be able to move to the surface and spread out.

 

[SakanaSensei]

The brains of all the things that live underground that will then be able to move to the surface and spread out.

Wonder if there are any planets out there that have life and don’t have a sun. I just always figured that energy worked it’s way down into the under dark through more typical routes: stuff eats veggies, gets eaten by something, that something goes down into the UD.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Wonder if there are any planets out there that have life and don’t have a sun. I just always figured that energy worked it’s way down into the under dark through more typical routes: stuff eats veggies, gets eaten by something, that something goes down into the UD.

There are plenty of organisms that survive purely off of geothermal energy, so, probably.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There are plenty of organisms that survive purely off of geothermal energy, so, probably.

But no known ones have brains.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

But no known ones have brains.

The post I was responding to didn't mention brains at all. This was just a tangent about whether or not life can exist without solar energy, not if intelligent life was.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The post I was responding to didn't mention brains at all. This was just a tangent about whether or not life can exist without solar energy, not if intelligent life was.

Doesn't need to be intelligent, just needs to have a brain.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Doesn't need to be intelligent, just needs to have a brain.

It does need to be intelligent, that's why mind flayers consume humanoid brains. They don't simply eat the gray matter, but consume psychic energy from the victim. That's also why the victims need to be alive when the mind flayer feeds on their brain.

 

[Eubani]

Empire with slavery 5...4.....3....2....

 

[Davies]

This sounds really cool until my brain thinks about it for a little bit. Like, if y'all put out the sun, entire ecosystems are gonna go to crap fast and THEN whose brains you gonna be eatin'?

Gosh, it is almost like evil is fundamentally self-destructive.