Absorb Intellect

This article is about the illithid power. For the upgraded full-illithid version, see Synaptic Consumption.

Absorb Intellect is an illithid power which saps a target's Intelligence and heals the user.

Description

Gobble up a foe's intellect, lowering their Intelligence by 1 per turn and healing your wounds for 5 turns.

Properties

Cost

 Action
Healing: 1~8

1d8Healing

Details

INT Save (Spell save DC)

 Range: 9 m / 30  ft

Recharge: Short rest

Technical details

UID

Target_TAD_AbsorbIntellect

Spell flags

CannotTargetItems, CannotTargetTerrain, DisableBlood, IsHarmful

Condition: Absorbed Intellect

 Absorbed Intellect

Duration: 5 turns

Spell save DC  Intelligence saving throw

• Intelligence is being reduced by 1.

How to learn

Other ways to learn:

• Unlock from the illithid power skill tree with a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen after obtaining one of the following:
  •  Perilous Stakes
  •  Displacer Beast Shape

Notes

• On turns two through five, the healing amount becomes respectively:
  • 2d8hit points
  • 3d8hit points
  • 4d8hit points
  • 5d8hit points
• The condition  Absorbed Intellect is lost and regained each round after an initial failed saving throw. Every turn of the effect, the amount of Intellect lost increases by 1, starting as a -1 penalty on the first turn and ending as a -5 penalty on the final turn.
• Absorb Intellect will inflict  Atrophied once the Intelligence of the affected entity reaches 2, as opposed to 0.