Y

don't know about "awesome", but I'd shit my pants at a Ilithid who's grafted himself into some abberation that would make Cthulu weep...

I'm waiting for the end of the longpost
I Tl; Dr 'd, and skipped to the end, but I was confused by lack of Bel Air

>>1576661
not 40k, not a troll

> Halfling-sized weasel abomination

I think we'd all piss ourselves if we saw one of those.

... Illithid SCIENCE!

>>1576681
> Illithid PROGRESS!
Fixed.

The hive agrees....this is truly awesome

OP here. Should I add symbionts to the mix, or is it ridiculous enough already?

>>1576709
Never enough SCIENCE

Keep in mind that its not just able to graft onto itself: It'll give grafts to its favorite minions. Hell, even its lackeys if they're cheap enough. Imagine a swarm of pseudonatural hobgoblins with arms bigger than they are and mouths open farther than their skulls should allow, wailing in agony, begging to be killed to be released from the pain that is caused by their bodies forcibly rejecting the shabby, half-assed grafts the illithid gives to the cannon fodder.

>>1576726

Holy hell.

Y.
Very Y.

Yes, this is most defintiely awesome.

Xiombarg would approve.

>>1576661

Wheres the drawfags when you need em?

>>1576661

>>1576808

I chuckled.

>>1576726
I love that image....

on this topic, does anyone know where i can find the details of the fleshwarper class? crystal keep isnt too thorough in its description

With a Hat of Disguise, the Illithid could even set up shop selling its grafts. Nondisfiguring, only partially invasive grafts for the common folk at ridiculously low prices, easily at a loss. What farmer wouldn't want bulkier muscles? A stronger heart? Legs that wouldn't tire?
Of course, theres a catch. The Illithid has just gotten done with a spell that controls those with grafts, and Illithid grafts already impose penalties on will saves. After a while of selling, the Illithid proceeds to dominate the entire town, gets all its money back from them, and has dozens (hundreds?) of new subjects to experiment on, and to use as fodder versus those pesky investigating PCs.

u r a winrar

I smell win in this here thread.

>>1576848
An Illithid with a hat. I don't know why, but that sounds awesome.

You've taken one of my favorite things about sci-fi and given it to a mindflayer. Which is another way of saying Y.

>>1576848

For BBEG this is manipulative and evil...AND AWESOME!!! The only way it could be better if your party interpreted you as one of those "brutal" DMs, the ones that players are always fearful of combat, but the reason they don't get up an leave is because the storytelling made the pain worth it.

/Had two brutal DMs, I left both games b/c the out of combat sequences were definitely lacking in substance.

This is an awesome idea, and you should feel awesome.

>>1576848
YOU ARE AWESOME AND YOU SHOULD FEEL AWESOME

I like the idea that the Illithid could set up shop in a small, rural town, using the CR 1/4 and 1/2 monstrous races in the surrounding wilds for the brunt of his experiments while reserving the humans as test subjects for the occasional largely-finalized "covert" modification. He plans to infiltrate human society using agents with enhanced phsical capabilities and a set of parasitic and symbiotic organisms that can reproduce and infest others to create new "converts". For an added bonus, have his innocuous home base be the exact same low-level region that the PCs began in- his infestation was already halfway complete when they left to bigger and better things.

>>1576914

Better yet, have the PCs have the very beginning of the infestation just as they leave, but they never got the essential second part that is required to kickstart the transformations. As soon as they come home, they start feeling just a bit...off.....

Hey teacher, leave those kids alone?

>>1576947

WARNING: THIS THRALL HAS SLIPPED ITS MENTAL BONDS.
*Mind Blast* *Brain munching*

Imagine if someone with True Seeing came across this thing's shop. "Huh, cheap grafts? Well a lot of the townsfolk have them, they can't be too ba-SWEET TAPDANCING JESUS CRACKERS WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING"

>>1576952
Damn, we'll need another brick now.

This seriously does sound like something out of Gerald Scarfe's drawings. Or, more accurately, if H.R. Giger, Salvatore Dali, Gerald Scarfe, M.C.Escher, and Terry Gilliam all had an orgy, this would be the result.

>if H.R. Giger, Salvatore Dali, Gerald Scarfe, M.C.Escher, and Terry Gilliam all had an orgy

OLD MAN SEX

>>1576993
THAT'S THE BEST KIND OF SEX!

>>1576969
oh god forgive me.. I lolled

>>1576934
Please tell me they end up transforming. That would be so awesome.

>>1577011

It'd be no fun at all if they didnt!

>>1577011
Drainage City, the role playing game?

>>1577034

Gahhh, fuck you for reminding me of that abomination.

N.

So while the illithid is running shop, wheres it keeping its abomination-against-god weasel-familiar-thing?

This is definitely fuckwinawesome.

>>1577064
Basement.

>>1577091

Devouring the failed experiments and/or people who succeeded the save for disbelief?

I NEED PICTURES
PICTURES OF SPIDERM- I MEAN THIS ILLITHID

>>1577142

"You promised me pretty Steinman, you promised me pretty! Now look at me! LOOK AT ME!"

>>1577192
"Mr Ryan's gonna notice me, and I'm gonna be a star, it's not too late ... it's not too late"

>>1577192
1) What is that?
2) Moar

>>1577179
...what is this? you have my attention.

>>1577208
Concept art for bioshock.

Original little sister concept.

>>1577238
OLD MAN HEAD

>>1577224
Franken Fran

>>1577227
WHO WANTS SOME YAMS?

I smell powergaming...

>>1577227
I AM
YAM HANDED

I approve of this thread and wish to archive it.

>>1576833, Look for Lords of Madness. Has all things aberration.

Also, this goes to the OP; are you going to ignore the rules laid out in Races of the Dragon? Frankly, I think they are rubbish, but they do exist.

>>1577335

Thats for those grafts. The old grafts didnt have any rules.

Honestly, I read this thread and now I want a illithid in a suit and hat with a tommy gun.

>>1577448
It and Magic of Eberron specifically state the graft restrictions within those books only apply to the grafts found in them.

>>1577516
Not the OP here but I already have one of those in D20 modern.
God I love Illithids

here you go OP, i have felt inspired to drawfag your character

>>1578147
fuck, forgot the insect wings

>>1578163
SHITFUCK
AWESOME

>>1578163
The is no emotion for what I am feeling
It is made of d'aww, fucking awesome and sheer terror.

>>1578163
I'm not sure what's scarier the illithid or the weasel thing.

So his familiar kind of reminds me of an ROUS.

>>1578372
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

>>1578372
I don't believe they actually exist.

OP here. That picture made me go HOLY SHIT AWESOME. And my players went "THAT is what you wanted it to look like? Holy f-"

Why isn't this archived?

>>1576693
why are they so dark city in appearance?

>>1578472
then my work here is done


UP UP AND AWAY!

>>1578525
Godspeed.

God be with you, drawfag.

>>1577034
That came to my mind when I read OP. ughhhh
Boy with girlcancer. Worm-kid butt babies. Rampant sickly child seduction and molestation.
..... would be both best and worst RPG session ever.

Bump for amazing greatness.

Why does he have levels in flesh warper?
big fuckin' waste

Cant he just have a few hundred SLAVES to do it for him?

newbdm

>>1580376
In before druids.

>>1580367
>>1580367
>>1580367
IMPROMPTU LESBIANS

> Halfling-sized weasel abomination

BYRUM

>>1580391
I have about two more worksafe pics of these two. The rest are LOLMOLESTATION. Why? Where the hell is all the fanart?

>>1580413
Molestation is fine too

>>1576661
Well it seems this...
thing...

>>1580419
...is a freak of nature.

>>1580424
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

>>1580418
NSFW molestation.

I'm amazed how this show completely made light of the fact that ginger-ball here ACTUALLY FUCKING RAPED the eyepatch girl. In jest. Seriously.

IN FRONT OF TWO OTHER GIRLS.

Why are we still hanging around here?
OP post was obviously a lame joke..
Anyway more anime chicks please!

>>1580461
Not posting NSFW gifs on /tg/.

>>1580376

You can't approach NPCs from the same perspective as PCs. Sure, a class might be a waste on a PC, but that's because you have limited oomph. NPCs don't. They only have the limit on their levels of common sense.

Also, clearly only his superior illithid brain is capable of unlocking the full potential of fleshgrafting.

>>1580532
I know its mostly for the flavor and all, it just seems a bit unnecessary to to add a few class levels simply for the title the class gives.
The NAME of a certain class doesn't necessarily have to do with flavor at all, especially not in a BBEG.

That said, I suggest the OP to grab the leadership feat (Not that a illithid would need it in most cases) and make a decent Fleshwarper out of it rounding it out with something arcane.

The BBEG can still be seen as a body augmenter of any kind, and his assistant simply helps him perform the alterations on his body.

what if the illithid likes the hands on approach, what then?

maybe its his hobby?

Do you pay people to watch movies and play video games for you? no, you do it yourself.

>>1581233
He can still "do it himself", you don't need to have fleshwarper class levels in order to have some knowledge about the subject. Heck, he can be the master of flesh warping without a single level in it.
You just need a bit of creativity and a back story.

Again, the character in question is a BBEG if the DM wants him to be a fleshwarper then so be it.
But adding class levels is not the only way to get grafts, and for a BBEG which sooner or later will be fighting the PC's one way or another, levels could be better spent making the final encounter(s) more interesting.

And honestly, what's the difference anyway? The PC's will in most cases not know the BBEG's stats anyway.
He will get the same grafts with the same "flavor" but saving a heck load of levels taking the Leadership feat instead.

All in all:
"Pure" Class Levels is usually not a good basis for
flavor.
A BBEG can always work around it some way or another, in order to avoid what can (sometimes) "useless" levels.

>>1580434
Sauce?