All Hail the Mind Flayer!

[William Ronald]

I had a character who once taunted a mind flayer foe by saying that he wondered if mind flayers would make great dog food. Fortunately, the party defeated the mind flayer and his allies. (As a matter of taste, I did not make mind flayer dog food. Now, I can't speak for the rest of the party....)

 

[Stormonu]

Y'now, I just realized that in my 20+ years of gaming, I've never used mind flayers.

I've read and enjoyed the Illithiad (& Lords of Madness) made references to them, made thrallkin (a heavily watered-down PC version of a mind flayer), used intellect devourers and created a whole slew of mind flayer derivative stuff for my game (flesh engines come to mind). Heck, I've even run a good bit of Spelljammer stuff focusing on their plots. Heck, I've had my 1E mind flayer miniature for forever.

But I haven't used an actual mind flayer in one adventure that I can think of.

I'm going to have to fix that.

 

[Uder]

We were watching a special about cuttlefish on PBS, and my oldest girl (5) said "look dad, a mind flayer." I got a little misty.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Haakon1,
hehe yeah, a great "brown trouser" moment!
"Oooh cool pic...EEEK?!"

William
in one of our campaigns, the characters had escaped form Athas, ended up in Siigl, one character was a cleric/wizard, super high int/wis (being Athasian)...so, the mind flayers were slavering to eat his high class brains...! lol

Stormonu,
Nothing is quite so much fun as *pop! ...*pop!*...*pop!* as you have mind flayers dimension door in on the PCs and put the minis down!
Though...one day...I'd love ot slam dunk the Colossal Red Dragon mini down on 'em...

Uder,
awww! Cuteness!

Ok here's another mind flayer pic I did a while ago: "Lunch on the Bridge v2"
mind flayers have a snack as they pilot their nautiloid, but a rescuer ocmes a calling...

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[Pig Champion]

In my current campaign is based off of buffy, the players are citizens in a city that was used by mind-flayers as a farm until an Orcish cult opened up a portal to hell in service of Asmodeus. The mind-flayer's portal home was closed indefinitely and they now (not so) secretly run the city while the watch work on a way to re-open the mind-flayer's portal.

It's been good fun and as you can imagine, a lot of mind-flayer goodness.

 

[Sir Robilar]

Awesome thread!

I´ve used a lot of Mind Flayers recently as the players made a fun Spelljammer romp through space and encountered a few Nautiloids on their way. Some brains eaten later they made it back to their home planet. Now I plan to have a few Mind Flayers plane shift to their homes for some tea and biscuits.

Edit: Ah, I created this thread. That explains why it is so awesome.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I am sad that the Flayer is not OGL.

Luckily we have psychic squid-men.