Monster: Intellect Devourer

Monster: Intellect Devourer

The intellect devourer is a body snatching brain on legs. These are sometimes used by the mind flayers are spies.

 

Intellect Devourer [Expanded Psionics Handbook, page 202]

290 points
Attribute Modifiers: ST-4 [-40]; DX+4 (No Fine Manipulators, -40%) [48]; HT+2 [20].
Secondary Characteristic Modifiers: SM-2; Will+1 [5]; Basic Move +1 [5].
Advantages: Compartmentalized Mind 1 [50]; Dark Vision (ESP, -10%) [23]; Doesn’t Eat or Drink [10]; Extra Legs (Four Legs) [5]; Injury Tolerance (Damage Reduction, 1/2) [50]; Injury Tolerance (Homogenous, No Blood, No Eyes, No Head, No Neck) [62]; Resistant to Psionics (+3) [10]; Sharp Claws [5].
    Electricity Resistance: DR 5 (Includes Internal, +20%; Limited, Electricity, -40%; Tough Skin, -40%) [10].
    Body Thief [83]: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only creatures with a brain, -5%; Disadvantage, Enhanced Unnatural, +100%; Heart Attack, +300%; Immediate Preparation Required, 1 minute, -30%; Link, +10%; Malediction 1, +100%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%; Telepathy, -10%; Triggered Delay, Stopping possession, +50%) [59] + Possession (Accessibility, Only creatures with a brain, -5%; Full Memory Access, +10%; Immediate Preparation Required, 1 minute, -30%; Link, +10%; Maximum Duration, One week, -0%; Parasitic, -60%; Telepathy, -10%) [20] + Permeation (Flesh; Immediate Preparation Required, 1 minute, -30%; Link, +10%; Telepathy, -10%) [4].
Disadvantages: Appearance (Monstrous; Universal, +25%) [-25]; Dependency (Brain of a sapient creature; Occasional; Monthly) [-20]; Horizontal [-10]; Mute [-25]; No Mouth [-4]; No Fine Manipulators [-30]; Social Stigma (Monster) [-15].
Features: Treated as a summoned creatures for the purpose of warding spells.
Racial Psionic Abilities: Drain IQ 1 [24]; Mind Clouding 4 [24]; Mind Shield 2 [8]; Psi Sense 2 [13].
Racial Psionic Skills: Drain IQ (H) Will-2 [1]; Mind Clouding (H) IQ-2 [1]; Mind Shield (H) Will-2 [1]; Psi Sense (H) Per-2 [1].
Creature Type: Aberration (Evil).

Sapient-Only Telepathy [-5] Mind Clouding 4 [24] -> Mind Clouding 4 [19]

Typical Stats

ST:	6	HP:	6	Speed:	6.5
DX:	14	Will:	11	Move:	7
IQ:	10	Per:	10
HT:	12	FP:	12	SM:	-2
Dodge:	9	Parry:	N/A	DR:	5 (vs. electricity)

    Sharp Claws (14): thrust 1d-5 cutting (KYOS: 1d-7 cutting), Reach C.
    Body Thief (11): When an intellect devourer overcomes a lone victim, it consumes the victim’s brain and enters the skull. As a one-minute ritual, the devourer can merge its form with that of a helpless or recently dead creature with SM-2 or larger. This requires a successful Quick Contest of Will against the victim’s HT (if he’s alive). The devourer cannot merge its body with that of a creature with no brain.
    When an intellect devourer completes its merging, it psionically consumes the brain of the victim (which kills it if it is not already dead). The devourer can exit the body at any time as a standard action, bursting the victim’s skull and resuming its normal form.
    After consuming its victim’s brain, an intellect devourer can instead choose to animate the body for up to seven days as if it were the victim’s original brain. Treat this as the Possession advantage with full memory access.

    Traits: Appearance (Monstrous; Universal); Compartmentalized Mind 1; Dark Vision (ESP); Dependency (Brain of a sapient creature; Occasional; Monthly); Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Extra Legs (Four Legs); Horizontal; Injury Tolerance (Damage Reduction, 1/2); Injury Tolerance (Homogenous, No Blood, No Eyes, No Head, No Neck); Mute; No Fine Manipulators; No Mouth; Resistant to Psionics (+3); Social Stigma (Monster); Treated as a summoned creatures for the purpose of warding spells.
    Racial Psionic Abilities: Drain IQ 1; Mind Clouding 4; Mind Shield 2; Psi Sense 2.
    Racial Psionic Skills: Drain IQ-13; Mind Clouding-13; Mind Shield-10; Psi Sense-10.
    Skills: Acting-16; Stealth-14.
    Creature Type: Aberration (Evil).