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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7117680" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>[MENTION=6875235]Elon Tusk[/MENTION]</p><p></p><p>First off, I'll just say I'm not in the least bit sold on Mind Flayers as PCs. That said...</p><p></p><p>You're going to have some hard work to do if you ever want to use Mind Flayers as enemies in your game, in order to explain why every one of them is by default so much more powerful than every one of the PC Flayers were when they first started out.</p><p></p><p>I mean, just being a Mind Flayer at all should give you massive psionics (sorry, 30' telepathy is not massive psionics) - you know, the kinds of things that let you destroy a mind from across the room, or stun people, or dominate their will to turn them into your puppets, etc., etc.; never mind that you can eat brains and should be able to do so long before the foe gets to 0 h.p. (having your brain eaten tends to kill you). Your PC Flayers are by necessity nerfed, I'm just saying to keep in mind that for this to make sense you by extension have to nerf much of the Mind Flayer race and thus remove a very challenging potential set of enemies from your game. If you're cool with that, then carry on.</p><p></p><p>Also, you have a typo in your write-up's first page under Alhoon: "Necromancy" is spelled wrong.</p><p></p><p>Lan-"if anything I want to make Flayers more dangerous, not less"-efan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7117680, member: 29398"] [MENTION=6875235]Elon Tusk[/MENTION] First off, I'll just say I'm not in the least bit sold on Mind Flayers as PCs. That said... You're going to have some hard work to do if you ever want to use Mind Flayers as enemies in your game, in order to explain why every one of them is by default so much more powerful than every one of the PC Flayers were when they first started out. I mean, just being a Mind Flayer at all should give you massive psionics (sorry, 30' telepathy is not massive psionics) - you know, the kinds of things that let you destroy a mind from across the room, or stun people, or dominate their will to turn them into your puppets, etc., etc.; never mind that you can eat brains and should be able to do so long before the foe gets to 0 h.p. (having your brain eaten tends to kill you). Your PC Flayers are by necessity nerfed, I'm just saying to keep in mind that for this to make sense you by extension have to nerf much of the Mind Flayer race and thus remove a very challenging potential set of enemies from your game. If you're cool with that, then carry on. Also, you have a typo in your write-up's first page under Alhoon: "Necromancy" is spelled wrong. Lan-"if anything I want to make Flayers more dangerous, not less"-efan [/QUOTE]
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