Lugribossk

After going through the Illithid Monstrous Arcana, I noticed several 
things of interest.

*  They list Lugribossk as a proxy (an avatar) of Ilsensine, the 
Illithid god from Planescape and the Monster Mythology book.  
Perhaps, he was picked because of his (its) power in the Astromundi 
Cluster where Lugribossk is the Illithid god, not Ilsensine.  Just a 
thought.

*  The silly rumor that Illithids are really mutated humans is 
finally "offically" dispelled.  An excerpt formt he Astromundi 
Chronicles is sited as highly unlikely.

*  Two articles that would be good to have if your running Illithids 
in a Spelljammer game are not mentioned in the book.  One is 
Mindstalkers in Dragon #245.  It presents Dwarvern specialists who 
hunt Illithids for a living.  It fits in well in the Astromundi 
setting where their are so many Illithids and the dwarves are the 
spheres mercenaries.  The other is the Mindscapes of Athas and Beyond 
from Dragon Annual #2.  That article has some useful information for 
anyone using the Skills & Powers version of Psionics.  It also has a 
write up of the Mind Flayer in that system.  The major point that I 
noticed is they significantly reduced the number of psp's to make the 
mind flayer a bit more reasonable: 50+3d10 (instead of 1d100+250).

*  They state the maximum infravision range for a mind-flayer is 480 
feet and they cannot see in the normal spectrum.  This would not make 
since in wild space where most objects are many miles away when first 
sighted.  Do Illithids always have to have mind-controled slave races 
aboard their ships just to have look-outs.  IMO, Mind flayers have 
the Infravison ranges listed, but can also see in the normal spectum 
with some difficulty (bright light still causes them great pain).

*  They actually state that mind flayers should be psionic and that 
the magical versions are for campaigns that do not have psionics.
The truth of the matter is that when 2nd edition came 
out, psioinics were not a part of it (yet), and the monster 
compendium entry for Mind Flayers just substitued magical 
psioinic-like abilities for that publication.  The Complete Psionics 
Handbook came out much later and had a conversion in the back.  

Any other observations?

Terry 
TLHawk@???-??.org