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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8329935" data-attributes="member: 6915329">They're not humanoid, they're aberrations. They're only humanoid in shape because their larvae parasitize humanoid bodies like super-intelligent psychic... parasite. One of the particularly horrible ones, like the cordyceps, or a tongue-eating louse. If a larva doesn't get implanted into a humanoid body, it grows to enormous sizes and becomes violently destructive.(I've seen the suggestion that the neolithid is what their larva are supposed to be like, back in the mind flayer's home dimension/planet, thus indicating that they are supposed to be parasitizing tarrasque-sized creatures native to their homeworld, meaning their true form isn't some octopus-faced humanoid thing in a purple robe with relatively limited psionics; it's supposed to be something more like Cthulhu. I don't think this is canon, AFAIK, but it's undeniably awesome.)Also, they have to eat humanoid brains for sustenance. These two things are entirely biological with them. Culturally, they keep sentient beings as slaves and perform horrific mental and physical experiments on them, and have no problem mind-raping people, but even without that, their biology is destructive enough that they can be classified as evil beings.Personally, I like neogi for this purpose. They also have a disturbing way of reproduction. In 5e, they just lay eggs on one of their elders and the larva it the elder like they're wasps devouring a paralyzed insect. I prefer the original Spelljammer approach, where the neogi inject an elder with venom that causes the young to grow inside the elder, until they chew their way out. Neogi are also a slaver race: because of their their innate charm gaze, they literally can only understand the concepts of being a master, being a slave, or being a potential slave. Plus, they're really good traders and merchants, so even if they're always evil, they're actually also useful, which can lead to fun moral dilemmas.</blockquote>

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