Unofficial Description:Dragon transformed by a parasitic Illithid Elder Brain to become its host. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well as each ones Intelligence score, but cant sense anything else about it. Could a subterranean river or aquifer generate enough continuous momentum to power a waterwheel for the purpose of producing electricity? For how this might look in a campaign from the DMs/players perspective, I'll share a bit of how I've executed it thus far: The first Mindflayer the players came across was a singular rogue Mindflayer on the surface, who was fleeing the "restructuring" of his colony under a new, at that time unnamed, Elder Brain. It shunts any excess mass directly into a psionically maintained node on the Astral Plane. That copy-paste was done without following the. Greenie should be able to get everybody in there. I hope. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 15) and takes 9 (ld8 + 5) psychic damage at the start of each of its turns until the grapple ends. At the center of this network is the, in this manner. Plus, it can grapple with its tentacles, and it has a legendary action that automatically breaks a foe's Concentration. @TimGrant If it wasn't the monster the people in critical role faced, is it really the right answer? They also however possessed powerful tentacles that could hold down creatures as large as frost giants. The elder brain can let those creatures telepathically hear each other while connected in this way. Sense Thoughts. Fizban's Elder Brain Dragon for Dungeons and Dragons Elder brain dragon | Forgotten Realms Wiki | Fandom Magic Resistance. You know what level, magic item allocation, and the fact that it's a one shot. An, network, taking on specific tasks, sharing information, and so on. Where typically it would be seen as difficult to amass actual armies of Illithid, as Elder Brains would never unite enough to work together, the Might of the True EBD is enough to not only raise whole armies by itself, it wields enough power to bring all Illithid to heel. The elder brain magically emits psychic energy. The damage is lower -- 55 instead of 77 -- but it's psychic damage, which is much less likely to be resisted. According to Wyatt, the creature has a fly speed of 80 feet and can hover. If we assume that the party has some form of poison resistance, but not psychic resistance, then I think 4 points of damage is close enough to call this a draw. Since its community consists of mind flayers, that tends to be less than ideal, although sometimes the mind flayers disagree with other equally noxious factions. Page. If the elder brain succeeds, the mind believes the deception for 1 hour or until evidence of the lie is presented to the target. Official stats will be coming soon, in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, which releases on on October 17th. A growing archive of hundreds of years of D&D experience, all in one place! A pointer is a short summary that points to published material. (Or dying and reincarnating as a dwarf. D&D 5E Fizban's Treasury Dragons Ranked By Challenge Rating - EN World Hit: 20 (4d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage. Hit: 20 (4d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage. One of the coolest monsters we get coming out of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons is the Elder Brain Dragon. An example is the Elder Brain from D&D Wiki. In this case, talk about the merits of the Elder Brain and how you could see things happening. The aberration regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. This page was last edited on 25 November 2021, at 00:40. A special welcome to those of you who skipped down to this part right away. : The elder brain targets one incapacitated creature it can perceive with its Creature Sense trait and establishes a psychic link with that creature. Large Aberration (Mind Flayer), Typically Lawful Evil. Challenge 14 (11500 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5. The Elder Brain Dragon is what happens when an Elder Brain's form is connected to a dragon's body, via horrific experiments. "[The eyedrake's] mouth is perpetually open, showing a large central eye that emits a breath-like wave of antimagic energy," Wyatt explained to Dragon+. Sever Psychic Link: The elder brain targets one creature within 120 feet of it with which it has a psychic link. The creature is a weird combination of dragon and beholder, with wings made up of eyestalks and a fake mouth that contains a large central eye. [1], These monstrosities attacked their foes as other dragons did, raking foes with their claws or tearing them to shreds with their strong jaws. Elder Brain Dragon: tactical analysis : r/DnDBehindTheScreen - Reddit Typically Lawful evil In fact, I think the EBD is the only illithid or illithid-adjacent creature that does not have magic resistance. You can try these options: [link]. D&D Live viewers got a brief insight into the new Elder Brain Dragon, a combination of the mind . [1], Elder brain dragons did not require sleep or food for sustenance. OP gets the advice they wanted, and can take it(or ignore it) as they want. On a successful save, the target takes 10 (3d6) psychic damage. The link also ends if the target and the elder brain are more than 5 miles apart. This is primarily a defensive ability as it imposes disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls. Really, unless the PCs are very poorly optimized, burn through their resources without stopping to rest before the fight, or otherwise do something horrible to shoot themselves in the foot I don't see an Elder Brain Dragon being overly dangerous for level 14 party.