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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3997882" data-attributes="member: 114">Following new information gained from Worlds and Monstersper encounterMind Blast is now a renewable power, usable once per encounter to daze all creatures caught in its area. (a lot less powerful!)Dominate a foe usable once per encounterAt willThe at will powers are listed in "a cascading, intuitive style". One at the top of the list is available every round, while those farther down require no attention until successful attacks make them available.The basic illithid attack is a tentacle lash and grab. Only if the mind flayer succeeds in grabbing its prey does the bore into brain power come into play.The next entry, Thrall, matters only if bore into brain succeeded but the illithid decides to fashion a thrall instead of eating the victim.Only once it has made the choice to create a thrall does the Interpose Thrall power matter, forcing its new-made ally to stand in the way of danger----I have to say I do like the sound of this. It has been mentioned before that the old mind flayer 'mental blast at will to stun for 3-12 rounds could take most of a party out of a melee and leave people just sitting around while the fun stuff happens. Depending on the exact mechanics (like the new DDM daze?) can still be useful but not combat-ending.I do like the support for greater depth <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />)) of tentacle-boring goodness. Also fact that thralldom is now explicitly supported rather than implied through some combination of charm and stuff.Overall good stuff.</blockquote>

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