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<blockquote data-quote="starwed" data-source="post: 4317975" data-attributes="member: 36983">They were kind of weird, even for the 1e FF.&nbsp; This is off the top of my head, as I don't have the book with me.&nbsp; But I read through the FF pretty recently, in the interest of comparing monsters between editions.Basically, they spent all their time hidden in a cave meditating, projecting their form into the astral (or was it etheral?) plane.&nbsp; Occasionally they'd project themselves onto the prime instead, in order to obtain physical subsistence.&nbsp; There wasn't anything about them absorbing memories, but the physical appearance was about the same as it is in 4e.&nbsp; (I think the 1e illustration had the berbalang hovering in lotus position, though, which gives a very different feel.)As an aside, reading through the 1e FF made me realize that the biggest change in monster design in 3e was how few monsters used mechanics unique to the monster.&nbsp; Clearly this has swung the other way again in 4e... the berbalang is a good example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="starwed, post: 4317975, member: 36983"] They were kind of weird, even for the 1e FF. This is off the top of my head, as I don't have the book with me. But I read through the FF pretty recently, in the interest of comparing monsters between editions. Basically, they spent all their time hidden in a cave meditating, projecting their form into the astral (or was it etheral?) plane. Occasionally they'd project themselves onto the prime instead, in order to obtain physical subsistence. There wasn't anything about them absorbing memories, but the physical appearance was about the same as it is in 4e. (I think the 1e illustration had the berbalang hovering in lotus position, though, which gives a very different feel.) As an aside, reading through the 1e FF made me realize that the biggest change in monster design in 3e was how few monsters used mechanics unique to the monster. Clearly this has swung the other way again in 4e... the berbalang is a good example. [/QUOTE]

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