Editing Lords of Madness (section)

== Chapter 8: New Monsters ==

Even more awesome and terrifying aberrations for players to encounter.
* [[Beholder]]kin
** Hive Mother
** Director
** Eye of the Deep
** Overseer
** Spectator
* Cildabrin: an aberation resembling both a giant spider and a giant scorpion.
* Shadowcloak elder: A more powerful variant of the [[Cloaker]]
* Elder Brain:  The final stage of the illithid life cycle and rulers of illithid society.
* Elder Eidolon (template): A powerful construct build in ancient times based on another monster.  Includes the Elder Eidolon Kraken as an example.
* Gas Spore: A floating [[Fungus]] that mimics the appearance of a [[Beholder]].
* [[Gibbering Mouther]]
* Half-Farspawn (template): A hybrid of a outsider from the [[Far Realm]] and a more familiar monster.  Includes the Half-Farspawn Grey Render as an example.
* Hound of the Gloom:  A large tentacled dog monster that may be related to the [[Displacer Beast]].
* Illithidae: These creatures are to illithids what normal animals are to humans.  These are monsters distantly related to illithids that came with them from the same world.  All of them have several psionic abilities.
** Embrac: A large lumpy sack of flesh with many legs, eight tentacles, and a beak like mouth.
** Kigrid: A cat like monster with red eyes that are placed underneath its jaws.
** Saltor: A small ape-like scavenger with a beard of tentacles.  They are capable of speech and able to use weapons and tools.
* [[Illithid|Mindflayer]]
** Alhoon (template): not even a proper template, but some tips for grafting the Lich template onto an illithid, which you normally can't do because only humanoids can become liches
** Ulitharid: A more powerful varient of the illithid with six tentacles instead of four.
** Vampire Illithid: An undead illithid that drinks blood.  They are not true vampires and lose their intelligence, becoming feral.
* Psuedonatural creature (template): A horrifying outsider from an alien plane that resembles a more familiar creature.  A more powerful version of this template previously appeared in the [[Epic Level Handbook]].  Includes the Psuedonatural Hippogryph as an example.
* [[Psurlon]]: A race of psionic abberations resembling worms with many legs and eyes.  This book makes some changes to their origins, which have varied over the editions they appeared in.
** Average Psurlon
** Elder Psurlon
** Giant Psurlon: A psurlon with a mutation that causes it to grow larger than normal, but does not gain the abilities of an elder.
*  Shaboath: A construct created by an aboleth made of water and slime that takes the form of a several liquid tentacles.
* Shadow creature (Template): A monster from the plane of shadow that is a counterpart of something from the material plane.  Includes the Shadow Choker as an example.
* Silthilar:  It looks like a monster with four upper limbs ending in long spines, and four lower limbs ending in hands, and a head of tentacles, but it actually is a swarm of tiny creatures sharing one mind.  These creatures once were a race that had mastered the art of [[Fleshcrafting]] but when they accidentally unleashed a plague they escaped by shattering their bodies and minds into pieces.  Surprisingly, they actually are usually Chaotic Good.
* Urophion: A [[Roper]] that has undergone the same process used to turn humans into illithids.
* Zeugalak: A strange quadruped with stinger tail and a three tentacled mouth.  It uses electric attacks, and when hit with electricity it takes no damage and can teleport to the source of the attack.  It likes to catch natural lightning bolts to teleport into the sky and feather fall back down.