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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2301175" data-attributes="member: 172">More cool: Mind flayers. In 1e, they were just nasty things you wanted to avoid, though the Fiend Folio started to make them cooler with the introduction of the Gith. Though 2e had some problem, the Illithiad made them seem so sinister and alien. 3e trashed many of the bad things about 2e (like the whole "two types of mind flayers" thing), and took them to a new level with the XPH (which made their abilities customizable) and re-examining and drawing together lots of great Illithid stuff in Lords of Madness.A wash: Drow. Were one of the coolest villains of 1e, and some 2e treatment (like drow of the underdark) was interesting as well, be continuing FR-ification and Drizztification and general over exposure pulled them down a bit.But Plot & Poison made them cool again. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Less cool: Yuan-ti. Yeah, I know lots of people are saying yuan-ti are cooler, but I thought they were cooled before baldurs gate when half your players had never heard of them before. They were the hidden treasure of evil monsters. Now, they are all over the place... and they got largely nerfed in 3.5, and lost their default psionics.</blockquote>