Re: Lugribossk

On Tue, 5 May 1998 tlhawk@???-??.org wrote:

> 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.

Proxies aren't avatars. They're high up servants of the Powers berk.
(translation:proxies are really high level servants of gods bub.) Avatars
are lesser manifestations of a Power's real form on the Prime for when he
doesn't want to leave his kip. (translation: an avatar is the
manifestation of a god's essence on the Prime Material plane, for times
when the god can't leave his home on the outer planes.) Ilsensine's
avatar is a big brain with two tentacles. Ilsensine itself calls the
Outlands it's kip.

<snip>

> *  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.

In the first edition Monster Manual, Mind Flayers had both magic and
psionic powers. After the first edition's psionics rules were dumped,
Mind Flayers were written with only magic powers. In the Psionics HB they
were given back their psionic powers, but only at the DM's option. In the
Mounstrous Manual, there are two types of Illithids: those with psionics
(who have a beak) and those without (who have no beak). The Illithiad
prefers the Illithids to use psionics, but the "Arcane Mind Flayer" is
there for campaigns that don't use psionics, or who use the Monstrous
Manual's two species.

> Terry
> TLHawk@???-??.org

Leor Blumenthal