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<blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8146508" data-attributes="member: 7019027">The problem was the encounter was meant to be the foreknowledge for adventures later down the line. I expected maybe a PC to go down but I also expected them to pick themselves back up and be wary about illithids in the future, knowing they have the ability to extract brains. Its why I did the entire sequence of actions to begin with. Most things on the bog standard Mindflayer can be found in other illithids. And again, this wasn't a boss encounter just an unfortunate medium encounter. I don't out complete stock into CR but with a wizard, a cleric, and it being a solo encounter, I was expecting permenant PC death to be minimal. Even knowing the features of a Mindflayer, I would absolutely not get within 5ft of the Mindflayer as a wizard. A wizard is generally safe from the flayer at a distance since it usually only does Intelligence saves. 40% is way too low of a risk and if you fail, the flayer may still continue with what it was doing but now everyone is in potential danger. As for the grappling, there isn't any real limitations from the statblock. Giant crabs, for instance, explicitly say only 2 targets can be grappled in its clutches. I imagine Mindflayer's have multiple tentacles underneath their robes in an almost eldritch horror fashion since they're aberrations and therefore alien-like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asisreo, post: 8146508, member: 7019027"] The problem was the encounter was meant to be the foreknowledge for adventures later down the line. I expected maybe a PC to go down but I also expected them to pick themselves back up and be wary about illithids in the future, knowing they have the ability to extract brains. Its why I did the entire sequence of actions to begin with. Most things on the bog standard Mindflayer can be found in other illithids. And again, this wasn't a boss encounter just an unfortunate medium encounter. I don't out complete stock into CR but with a wizard, a cleric, and it being a solo encounter, I was expecting permenant PC death to be minimal. Even knowing the features of a Mindflayer, I would absolutely not get within 5ft of the Mindflayer as a wizard. A wizard is generally safe from the flayer at a distance since it usually only does Intelligence saves. 40% is way too low of a risk and if you fail, the flayer may still continue with what it was doing but now everyone is in potential danger. As for the grappling, there isn't any real limitations from the statblock. Giant crabs, for instance, explicitly say only 2 targets can be grappled in its clutches. I imagine Mindflayer's have multiple tentacles underneath their robes in an almost eldritch horror fashion since they're aberrations and therefore alien-like. [/QUOTE]

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