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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 708123" data-attributes="member: 5137">Those who have read the website may have noticed the beholders and mindflayers in the Races section. When I put the world together, WotC's "gentleman's version" of the System Reference Document included them... but with the understanding that things might be changed or removed. Use At Own Risk, right?So I risked it, and used them. Now that the official SRD has been updated, however, they (along with the yuan-ti, carrion crawlers and a few others) are no longer available. That's fine - I understood <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=":)" />.It does mean that I need to start working on alternatives, however, and this is the first part of that. The below is a patch for the website (which I will update as soon as I get a chance). Please replace the extradimensional races with these - instead of mindflayers, there are now eye tyrants (not the beholder kind <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=":)" />); instead of beholders, there are now ooze lords; and the spiderkin remain.Now back to your regularly schedule waiting for the story!Extradimensional ThreatsThere exist at least three distinct "shadow worlds" which occasionally connect or interact with this one, and all are horrible. The primary known races of each are the eye tyrants, the spiderkin, and the ooze lords. Fortunately, they interact with each other about as often, and are weakened by their wars with each other. Each generally seeks to conquer all others, and many heroes have been made (and killed) in defeating their plans. Of course, humanity has had its own share of would be world conquerors who desired to take their worlds.Eye Tyrants: Eye tyrants are humanoids named for the eyes all over their skull which, chameleon-like, dart in all directions. They have moist, amphibious flesh of dark and muted colors, are taller and far more slender than humans, and possess long fingers with which they are very clever. With a hood, skilled disguise, and very little light or closeness, they could likely pass for a particularly ugly human. Eye tyrants are known as powerful espers, and are one of the reasons that espers are mistrusted - not that a Theralis esper would ever work with eye tyrants, but the history of the eye tyrants shows just how the powers can be abused. Eye tyrants are cold and calculating, and seem to base their society on their strength as espers.Spiderkin: Spiderkin are mostly humanoid, but vary from individual to individual. They can roughly be classified into four groups: completely humanoid (with minor arachnid traits), half humanoid-half arachnid, completely arachnid (with minor humanoid traits), and shapeshifters (who slip between the different categories). Spiderkin society is a loose coalition of inequality, broken up by family "houses" and full of treacherous political currents. In their humanoid form, the spiderkin resemble beautiful youths with patterned skin coloration and solid black eyes.Ooze Lords: The ooze lords are not humanoid at all, but are instead massive pools of sentient slime, molds, oozes, algae and other "community entities". Most theories point to the ooze lords being spiritual entities which possess community systems of sufficient size and complexity, but there are no hard facts. Ooze lords operate in rough clans, with one particularly powerful, large and charismatic one attracting a number of lesser ooze lords around itself - they become a threat when the strong, charismatic ooze lord fancies some new territory in our world.</blockquote>

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