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Putting aside the issue of character death, in my experience with a somewhat low-loot-level party I have found that combats against appropriate CRs are often trivially easy, even allowing for the expected amount of PC resources to be expended. In that respect, I would typify D&D as somewhat...

A perpetually impressive tale of delightful doom, this. Ever are we pleased by Sagiro's Story Hour!

So far as I am aware, very little, by way of media, acted as direct inspiration for Vitis (It is hard to say what might have had a forgotten or subconscious impact). In fact, I took special care to avoid overtly basing the setting on anything that was highly familiar to me. Parallel...

Mind Flayers rise up Humanoids are simply thralls Their brains are forfeit Cherry blossom falls Cerebrospinal Fluid Ripples like water Some fight the darkness They do not think they have lost But they will soon see

Scene: All is dark. The only sound is that of a string section playing an ominous chord... A woman's voice speaks; cultured, mellifluous...and audibly afraid. The dreams started some time ago. Sometimes I see things that have happened... Images begin rising from the darkness, wavering around...

Fire Elemental A mad pyromancer has discovered a means of extracting lil' baby fire elementals from their home plane, and imprisoning them indefinitely in tiny orbs or cages of force. He is selling the trapped elementals as ever-burning lanterns and stoves and heaters! He's making a great...

The 'Seven Dwarves' mining syndicate loses one of their members in a cave-collapse. Because six is an inauspicious number, and doesn't sound as good (not to mention the fact that the victim was their more or less indispensable gem-expert), the surviving dwarves hire the party go forth and seek...

Are there any significant changes to the Sorcerer, outside of the ability to swap spells every other level?

The party is approached by a young NPC whom they have previously befriended. She is extremely distraught. After being calmed down and taken to a private place, she changes before the PC's eyes... her features vanishing, her flesh becoming grey and inhumanly liquicent; A doppelganger. She begs...

Illithid. Yes.

Observe the food chain: See, Illithid are on top. Nobody eats our brains. Once, the planes were ours. The Gith slaves rebelled and won. A minor setback. Zombies munch brains too. They are foul competition. Flay necromancers! Why do you fight back? You are destined to serve us. Or be served to us.

Just last night I was recounting to some of my players the old tale of the rise and fall of the Illithid in the first IR. Many stories I have, but The Illithid of the Industrial Revolution remains one of the most popular. I am glad to see that the IR spirit lives on.

The Illithid successfully cast defensively, for the record. Plus the character had seen them planeshift offensively once before, so she knew what she was getting into. There were no complaints from the players that I had acted unfairly given the rules as interpreted (This may be partially...

Take a look at the cover-picture for the equipment section in Savage Species (page 41). An Illithid tentacle-extension is illustrated there. Perhaps that is where you recall seeing it? I was disappointed that they weren't included in the actual equipment listings... False advertising, that.

Last night a character in my game ran into a lone Illithid (it was nearly as surprised as she was). Combat lasted one round. She stabbed it, carving out half of its HP with a single blow... and it reached out with its slimy, bruse-colored, four fingered hand and planeshifted her to certain...

30: Rubix. A Rogue-Modron bard... who has painted himself a different color on each side of his body.

"This above all; To thyne own self be true."

Bump Because of issues beyond our control, the story hour is/has-been on hiatus. We hope to resume updates presently. Nevertheless, we are now compelled to cry BUMP and let slip the prawns of war!

Excellent! Thank you Kamikaze. This is -exactly- what we needed.

We are well pleased with this resource. We eagerly await the ascension of the Illithid Deity, Ilsensine. (Both in this thread, and in the multiverse at large)