D&D 5E D&D’s Christopher Perkins delves into dark, horrible secrets of the mind flayer

[Parmandur]

I'm impressed that Mr. Perkins knew all of those Mind Flayer facts off the top of his head--or perhaps he has been reading up on them lately, hmmmm....?

It was an email, do he had time to check his notes. And he has a seriously feakish superhuman memory. However, it does seem that the has Mindflayers on the brain.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I'm impressed that Mr. Perkins knew all of those Mind Flayer facts off the top of his head--or perhaps he has been reading up on them lately, hmmmm....?

see my post above. He probably knows a lot about them because BGIII is all about mind flayers and that project is currently in the works (and I suspect he is at the very least involved in that from a consultant basis)

 

[Richards]

However, it does seem that he has Mindflayers on the brain.

That can actually be a fatal condition, having a mind flayer on your brain!

Johnathan

 

[Urriak]

Perkins talked about mindflayers a bit on a D&D beyond video, and even decided in that video he would add gnome mindflayers in a product (and knew exactly where to put them).

It seems pretty likely that we're eventually getting a book dealing with either planescape or spelljammer. Not sure which, but the staff seems more willing to dip into that stuff (if you look at MToF) than they are in settings like Dark Sun or Dragonlance.

 

[Parmandur]

Perkins talked about mindflayers a bit on a D&D beyond video, and even decided in that video he would add gnome mindflayers in a product (and knew exactly where to put them).

It seems pretty likely that we're eventually getting a book dealing with either planescape or spelljammer. Not sure which, but the staff seems more willing to dip into that stuff (if you look at MToF) than they are in settings like Dark Sun or Dragonlance.

Spelljammer and Planescape are the core setting, the Multiverse meta-setting. As such, Spelljammer & Planescape material is more generally applicable at multiple tables.

 

[TBeholder]

The question is, if there is a book, how much of it will be Illithiad with updated mechanics?

 

[Mycroft]

The question is, if there is a book, how much of it will be Illithiad with updated mechanics?

Don't think we'll get that level of detail and quality. I forget, is that also the one that stated that mindflayers are humans from the future (one with no suns)?

 

[Urriak]

Spelljammer and Planescape are the core setting, the Multiverse meta-setting. As such, Spelljammer & Planescape material is more generally applicable at multiple tables.

Sure, that's why we will probably get one of those books eventually. Adding Spelljammer or Planescape on top of your homebrew isn't hard, unless the person bothered to create their own whole cosmology.

 

[Parmandur]

Sure, that's why we will probably get one of those books eventually. Adding Spelljammer or Planescape on top of your homebrew isn't hard, unless the person bothered to create their own whole cosmology.

And honestly, anybody rolling their own cosmology probably has little use for WotC products (Chris Perkins has said that this is the case for high level adventure content: people who play high level aren't just a minority, they are also disinterested in official products as a whole because they are homebrewers).

 

[jgsugden]

On the one hand I hope SJ returns, but it would be problematic for me. I took the idea of Spelljammers and worked them into the 'Astral Sea' (even before that was a name for the Astral Plane) as a way to shortcut long voyages across my infintely large PMP. More SJ materials would be fun to see, but I fear only some of it would work with my cosmology.