I am playing a Illithid character, using the Savage Species progression on the other side of a Gestalt build.
One I do not know what class to pair with the 15 level progression.
I also want advice on how to sate their appetite without eating people. Basically a Vegetarian Illithid (Twilight joke), at least to eat animal brains or the brains of lesser humanoids, ones he might not get into trouble for eating.
Also is there any items he might be able to pick up to disguise himself as a human or at least humaniod and not like a Illithid.
I did run this by my GM and he doesn't really care to be honest so long as I can find a plausible way to keep him from killing the party for food, and for him to be able to hide what he is from the town guards and others.
I am playing a Illithid character, using the Savage Species progression on the other side of a Gestalt build.
One I do not know what class to pair with the 15 level progression.
I also want advice on how to sate their appetite without eating people. Basically a Vegetarian Illithid (Twilight joke), at least to eat animal brains or the brains of lesser humanoids, ones he might not get into trouble for eating.Also is there any items he might be able to pick up to disguise himself as a human or at least humaniod and not like a Illithid.
I did run this by my GM and he doesn't really care to be honest so long as I can find a plausible way to keep him from killing the party for food, and for him to be able to hide what he is from the town guards and others.
The one example of a nonevil illithid in 3.5 that i know of is from the Book of Exalted Deeds, he uses a ring of sustenance to avoid having to eat, i am not sure if this would stay the same in pathfinder but if the ring is unchanged then it should still work
Ring of Sustenance
Its 1,000 GP less then the 3.5 version. It does require 1 week of wearing, I think Illithid require one brain a week?
Incorrect, one a month
Edit: Assuming they are based off the 3.5 Illithid, if you are interested in a bunch of biological info about them then check out the 3.5 sourcebook Lords of Madness, it has an entire chapter about them
I recommend pairing the illithid with psion from psionics unleashed, which is also on the OGC. Any magic-based class such as wizard or sorcerer works fine also.
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Repeat after me: "My party members are friends NOT food."
I have an NPC like this in my 3.5 campaign, an illithid that has rejected his people's traditional disdain of non-illithids. He thinks that learning from the lesser races is more worthy than treating them as food, and because of this has shifted to LN rather than LE.
He is still lawful, however, and so he eats criminal brains. He justifies this as being a service to the community he is hiding among, which keeps him from being a parasite, and more of an ally. Combined with a class like Inquisitor or Investigator, your mind flayer could have a similar POV. As long as the PC's and their allies aren't criminals and dangerous to the larger society, they would be relatively safe.
Also, remember that intelligent non-humanoids are likely to be nourishing as well. Dragon brain is likely a delicacy...
This does indicate one of the problems with playing monsters.
It may seem cool, but has practical problems. And human with half a brain [particularly if the reason they have half a brain is your Illithid has just eaten the other half] will either run or attack at the sight of an Illithid or most monsters.
I would suggest some method(s) of disguise.
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Incorrect, one a month
Edit: Assuming they are based off the 3.5 Illithid, if you are interested in a bunch of biological info about them then check out the 3.5 sourcebook Lords of Madness, it has an entire chapter about them
Or you can check out two full books: TSR's Monstrous Arcana: The Illithiad, and Paradigm Concepts, Inc.'s Unveiled Masters: The Essential Guide to Mind Flayers.