Making A Wish Creates New D&D Monster In Mordenkainen's

The Oblex, one of the new monsters featured in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, is a creation of Make-A-Wish recipient Nolan Whale.

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Jeremy Crawford describes the Oblex; "While oozes are typically mindless blobs that slowly slink around dungeons and consume mindless prey, the oblex can absorb the thoughts and memories of a person they attack. When an elder Oblex consumes enough memories, it creates Oblex Spawn...which are essentially the excess memories of the victims an Oblex can no longer absorb." The Oblex are the result of experiments by the Mind Flayers.

​Whale's character, a mohawked and tattooed dwarf, appears as one of the pieces of art in the book. Comicbook.com reported this information.

You can learn more about the Oblex and Whale's contributions to Modenkainen's here:

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[silentdante]

i think this is an awesome story, i feel for that kid, i can just imagine him not having experienced a lot and still able to come up with something pretty gnarly and very inspirational of story points and interesting ideas. makes me proud to support 5e and the hobby as a whole.

 

[Eltab]

At first I thought "Bartholemew and the Oobleck" by Dr. Seuss.

This does have possibilities, for a horror or a psi-based plot.

As an information source, this monster could have a memory that goes back as far in time as an aboleth's.