Re: Lugribossk

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.
>
> *  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).



> Well in one of the SJ novels(can't remember which one) the main Illithid
> character gives a pretty good explination of his visual aquity.  He stated
> that his race sees further into the infra-red spectrum at the cost of seeing
> into the other end of the visual spectrum (purples to blues).  This seemed to
> be a natural and constant way of seeing their surroundings, unlike normal
> infravision (that must be shifted from normal to infra).  This would also
> explain why they are so sensative to light, they cannot simply tune-out the
> infravision as a normal elf or dwarf can, it is always active.

> He went as far as to say that they make magical art objects that emit
> infra-red energy.  The example the book used was a painting that had a
> section of blank redness, atleast to the human eye.  But the painting went
> further into the infra-red and the illithid could much more detail in that
> section.

However, this was just a novel, and we all know how for a novel can stray from
the actual rules.  This may just be the cast here, but it sounds good anyway.

Daqueri


> *  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
>
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