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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 434607" data-attributes="member: 8461">I agree with most of your statement regarding that half-drow/half-illithid. Still, the creature does fit, albeit with some minor tweaking, in the known physiology of where illithids come from.The Illithiad does indeed say that illithids reproduce in the manner you described (I believe its called ceremorphesis, but I could be mistaken). However, letting an illithid tadpole into the brain of certain creatures can result in either a) the tadpole and the host both dying, since the host cannot be transformed (the Illithiad mentions which races fall into this catagory), or b) the host metamorphosizes into a being that isnt an illithid, but has illithid-like qualities (an illithid-kin, if you will). Urophions, which are illithid/ropers, are an example of such beings. An article in Dragon magazine expanded on the concept, listing a few more such hybrids.The problem with that half-illithid/half-drow, is that drow are either one of the races that dies when they try to make them illithids, or are transformed into normal illithids (sorry, I cant remember which). Even so though, this doesn`t make the listed creature totally unusable. The Dragon article I mentioned talked about a svirfneblin/illithid being. Svirfneblin (deep gnomes) usually just die when illithid tadpoles try to go through ceremorphesis with them, but the article said that by using a specific psionic power during the process (something about channeling planar energy, which in that case was from the (then Demi-)Plane of Shadow), allowed the ceremorphesis to succeed, and gave the creature new powers. Its feasible that a similar process was used during the creation of the half-drow/half-illithid creatures.Again, I didn`t think that creature was such a hot idea either, but with just a bit of tweaking, it does fit the standard mold for illithid reproduction...albeit a weird aspect of it.</blockquote>

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