Talk:Mind flayer

Remove the crunch! See Forgotten Realms Wiki:No crunch. Fw190a8 11:03, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The crunch is still there, so I have readded the cleanup template. Fw190a8 04:42, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It's no matter now, I've cleaned it all up and removed the template. Fw190a8 05:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorcerers?
Do Illithid sorcerers really need there own box thingy? it really dosnt tell any thing that the normal one doesnot 1.Aberration:They are the same Race so chances are if a Illithid is a Aberration then a Illithid sorcerer is one as well 2:underdark: Just because they are sorcerers does not mean they are going to leave the underdark and live happily on the world above 3.Lawful Evil:this is really the only thing that could change, but it dosnt so.... basically the Illithid sorcerers box is the same as the Illithid box just a different picture so could someone remove it? if i try i'm afriad i would mess the whole articale up
 * I tend to agree that there is no need to have the second template on the page. The article does still need a bit of work. Perhaps I will give it a once-over at some point. Please do feel free to make any edits you think are appropriate, because any mistakes made can be reverted or easily fixed. Fw190a8 12:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Reproduction
How do the Illithids reproduce? --Pinguinus impennis 04:39, September 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * They lay soft eggs, like frogs, which hatch into tentacled tadpole things. When they've grown bigger, and devoured most of their siblings, the illithids insert the tadpoles into the ears of humanoid victims. The tadpoles crawl into their victims' brains and transform their host bodies into new mind flayers. -- Rowan Earthwood 00:52, September 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * That's pretty creepy. Thanks for answering! By the way; do they mate like humans do? --Pinguinus impennis 02:21, September 23, 2011 (UTC)

Name of article
I've been looking at the articles that link to "mind flayer" and those that link to "illithid" and although one doesn't greatly outnumber the other, illithid seems to be more commonly used in wikilinks. On that basis, it might be better to call the article "illithid", but by what name are they more commonly known in the source material? Any thoughts on this? Fw190a8 (talk &middot; contr) 11:33, October 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * FW, I think before 3rd edition... they were more commonly called Mind Flayers... but more recently they have been named Illithids... this is only personal speculation based on twenty years of gaming... not on looking at the sourcebooks... if there is more links, rename, oh great high admin :)

I've understood "mind flayer" to be a name given by other races, while they call themselves "illithid". I suppose there's three approaches: to use their proper name, the one they call themselves (illithid); the one that we the players and users generally know them as (seems both are common); or their proper name as given by D&D game designers. For that, "mind flayer" is that they get called in the Monster Manual 3.5 and Monster Manual 4th edition, and presumably the older monster books. So I'd assume that to be the official name. The official name generally known to users would seem to be the best one.

Similarly, we use halfling, even though they properly called hin in the Realms, and moon elf rather than teu-tel-quessir, and so on. — BadCatMan (talk) 03:49, October 15, 2012 (UTC)


 * BadCat, excellent points :) Darkwynters (talk) 04:52, October 15, 2012 (UTC)