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PotC Warlock takes Mage Initiate Feat, learns Mage Armor, applies it to Imp for 16 AC. This with its Magic Resistance, Invisibility, Damage Resistances to cold, bludgeoning, piercing, & slashing from nonmagical weapons that aren't silvered, Damage Immunities fire and poison, and Condition...

I really like the idea of the colony working toward an alternate timeline. I may steal that for the illithoid/githzerai campaign I mentioned, maybe even letting the timeline substitution happen so that illithids have subjugated the world of the players, making illithids accepted but even more...

Yeah, I'm looking forward to coming up with tortuous ways to treat the renegades once they are over their heads, possibly using some of the bizarre flying ships (nautiloids), augmented monster thralls, and other illithid magic items mentioned in Volo's. As far as I know the Githzerai have only...

I appreciate the thoughts. I loaded up on negatives on purpose since a lot of home-brew, mine included, tend to be over-powered. I'll try bumping the initial ABS to include +1 Wisdom as well as increasing Darkvision to 120' and giving each 120' telepathy. Because Alhoon get telepathy, I'm...

I made the first couple of changes. http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/BJcuVD0lW It be as cleaner if the School-focused player just selected their own spell from their school at each level and if there isn't one, they can select another from a lower level. That would allow for more...

Just putting this here because the player who wanted me to make a Mind Flayer PC is now making a backstory with another player. The one wants to be an illithoid and the other his githzerai "prisoner" so they can try to infiltrate an elder brain colony. I know - they're crazy, but here's a...

I think it could be left a mystery why the illithoids are different with half-brains and ex-elder brains two possibilities. That kind of fits the unreliable narrator lore in Volo's. I appreciate the information. Having played 1st edition and now trying to catch up in 5th, those resources are...

When you say "classic D&D lore," do you mean pre-5e? If so, I would think it fair game to change what a half-illithid means in 5e home-brew, especially if the term "illithoid" is used. The description in Volo's (p. 72) uses "humanoid" instead of "human" as a host with no mention of...

One thread I see coming from most of these responses is that a PC Illithid should be different than an NPC from the MM. I've tried converting monsters into classes by taking initial levels in just the monster, but I didn't like the way it turned out, mostly because of how far it put the...

Okay, here's a rough draft with 2 subclasses. Is this close to what you were thinking? Some schools don't have spells at all levels so I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that - creating spells just to fill those spots seems awkward. Ideas?

I appreciate the time of anyone willing to help. My thinking was that their spell-casting/psionics was either gained by age or class-related spells so I was taking a lot of that away as a PC could add those back eventually with classes and XP. But I do see your point and will think on it. I...

Seriously, what is with this guy.

Thanks for the contribution. You guys are correct - enmity will likely be the biggest hurdle for an Illithid player to overcome. Even in the Underdark, Mind Flayer PCs are rogue and would be enemies even of their own kind and their thralls.