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<blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 2437818" data-attributes="member: 14197"><p>This whole line of thinking came to me because I wanted to replace a Drow NPC with something more unique. The cover of Bastards and Bloodlines by Green Ronin has what looks like a 1/2 mind flayer, 1/2 drow Mind Ripper. The pic was awesome and I knew that's what I wanted for my NPC. Then I started thinking about ecology and a lot of what I have read didn't make sense. There is a 1/2 Mind Flayer, 1/2 drow in Complete Book of Drow, yet to use such a creature, one has to ignore all the background info we have on illithid reproduction. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From what you say, they don't mate and can't produce hybrids; they instead spawn these tadpoles that are inserted as parasite into a host and will mutate the host into a new illithid after having eaten the host's brain from the inside. However, I think I read somewhere that the tadpole going into the brain of certain creatures can result in either a) the tadpole and the host both dying, since the host cannot be transformed (I read somewhere that 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. I read in an archived thread that there's article in Dragon magazine expanded on the concept, listing a few more such hybrids.</p><p></p><p>Isn't the tadpole thing called ceremorphesis?</p><p></p><p>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. I think 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 I read in the thread about the Dragon article, that by using a specific psionic power during the process, allowed the tadpole thing 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.</p><p></p><p>And I remember I have Lords of Darkness now... I need to get into that book again.</p><p></p><p>Catsclaw</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catsclaw227, post: 2437818, member: 14197"] This whole line of thinking came to me because I wanted to replace a Drow NPC with something more unique. The cover of Bastards and Bloodlines by Green Ronin has what looks like a 1/2 mind flayer, 1/2 drow Mind Ripper. The pic was awesome and I knew that's what I wanted for my NPC. Then I started thinking about ecology and a lot of what I have read didn't make sense. There is a 1/2 Mind Flayer, 1/2 drow in Complete Book of Drow, yet to use such a creature, one has to ignore all the background info we have on illithid reproduction. From what you say, they don't mate and can't produce hybrids; they instead spawn these tadpoles that are inserted as parasite into a host and will mutate the host into a new illithid after having eaten the host's brain from the inside. However, I think I read somewhere that the tadpole going into the brain of certain creatures can result in either a) the tadpole and the host both dying, since the host cannot be transformed (I read somewhere that 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. I read in an archived thread that there's article in Dragon magazine expanded on the concept, listing a few more such hybrids. Isn't the tadpole thing called ceremorphesis? 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. I think 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 I read in the thread about the Dragon article, that by using a specific psionic power during the process, allowed the tadpole thing 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. And I remember I have Lords of Darkness now... I need to get into that book again. Catsclaw [/QUOTE]
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