Re: Aboleth in Space

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Eugene Shumu1insky wrote:

> 	Weren't there Dragon articles a while back covering the ecology
> of the aboleth?  They had all sorts of breeds and stuff.  It was neat.

It was.  With all of the psionic abilities that article gave the
Aboleth, and the notes on their culture, they can really be made
Cthulhuesque.  Instead of Spelljamming on their own, they would use
psionically dominated, mucous-enslaved races to do their bidding.  The
Grand Aboleth would squat at the center of a labyrinth of slaves and
dimension travelling guards, manipulating the fate of whole worlds.

In addition to the slaves, the Aboleth travel to other worlds and
dimenstions with the power of their minds to collect artifacts
(i.e. magical and technological items) and slaves.  A mid-level party
could encounter one of these Collectors and it's entorage of slaves,
bent upon adding them to the Aboleth's power base.

I would use the Aboleth in Spelljammer not as a race to confront
directly (not at first, anyway) but as a race similar to the Shadows
from Babylon 5.  They manipulate the "lesser" races from behind the
scenes, in a long-term effort to establish an Aboleth Empire that
spans the Spheres.

Rich Gant