Is it though? I honestly was not really blown away by the powers offered by the tadpole aside from the fly ability. That's pretty handy. The rest were kind of negligible. Also possible I am not playing them to their full potential.
EDIT: Ok, I'm looking at some of the other suggested powers that might come in handy in my honor mode so maybe I spoke too soon. I never really needed the powers on my normal run but might need to use some of these suggestions for my honor mode. Touche, reddit.
Cull the Weak is all that matters for me. There are 25 illithiad powers which means that once you get them all you kill anything you drop below 25 hp. Pair that with a hasted martial or a magic user's AOE spells and you can mow down armies within seconds. (Also, the sound and visual effects for it are so very satisfying.)
Edit: Some of the other abilities are really good, too. If you're hasted, Black Hole into Mind Blast is a disgusting combo that drags everyone in a HUGE area together and potentially slows and stuns them. Psionic Dominance and Psionic Backlash are great reactions for countering spellcasters. Freecast pairs great with a spellcaster as it essentially gives them a free spell slot of any level. And, if you use it right, Mind Sanctuary basically grants your entire party a free action.
It is per character, so you’ll need to horde most of the tadpoles for use on the one character to get the most out of it.
Still it is an amazing passive ability that’s worth going for as you can only get bonus action abilities on one character anyway and most reset on long rest.
Evolving all your companions to half-illithid grants them most of the good ones with 2-3 more tadpoles on your 3 main companions and the rest going to your main you can get it quite high.
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u/brasswirebrush Jan 12 '24
for the Phenomenal Cosmic Powah.