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Thread: Illithid in the party
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2012-10-15, 02:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Illithid in the party
I have a person going to be playing an illithid wearing a hat of disguise. According to the disguise skill he would only take a -2 penalty for hiding his race. That seems quite low. Going from a purple tentacle faced aberration to an every day man. Thoughts?
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2012-10-15, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
A hat of disguise generates a first level glammer- anyone physically interacting with squidface is entitled to a DC 11 will save to see through the illusion. I don't believe illithids can even talk, so if the hat is talking for him that should also prompt the DC 11 will save for interacting with an illusion.
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2012-10-15, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 04:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
It's magic. You get a +10 bonus to Disguise checks when you use the Hat of Disguise, and there is, I am assuming, a -12 penalty for his race (if anything, that's too much of a penalty), so it makes sense. Just don't start shaking people's hands, is all. Pretend that the illithid has eczema. Do whatever it takes to ensure that he doesn't come into contact with people that they cannot afford to blow his cover to. Illithids have 4 fingers, including their thumbs, and they're slimy, bony, and thin. There's also the tentacles that might bump into other people, FYI.
Also, Illithids CAN speak, their "native tongue," however, is telepathic, universal communication.
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2012-10-15, 06:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
No, there isn't a -12 penalty for race, there's a -2 penalty for race. In accounting for the fact that it's quite easy for an elf to pass as a human, they didn't realise that the proposed rules make it easy for an illithid to pass as a human, or as with one character I built, for a pixie to pass as a parrot.
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2012-10-15, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
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2012-10-15, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
Why not just alter self into an Elan? It's better to be a weird glowy eye creep that looks human than a purple bony tenctacle monster man.
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2012-10-15, 06:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 09:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
According to Lord of Madness illithids are capable of verbal speech, though the particulars of their face give them a rather distinct, gurgly accent. They also have their own written language, but they have no unique spoken language of their own, since they can communicate telepathically.
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2012-10-15, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Illithid in the party
I actually
abuse this in a current campaign. I am the DM.) There's a cabal of illithids in a port town that run about disguised as Humans. They conduct their business in broad daylight, barter for supplies, etc. They have a lair hidden in the town where they abduct travellers and eat their tasty brains.
The party decided to Telport to the nearest Illithid, and ended up on a crowded street :D