Players will take flumphs seriously if you describe them properly. I used flumphs that came from otherwhens. There's also an 'otherwhen' timeline that represents some sort of temporal monkeying that changed the timeline, with mention that nothing comes from then. Also: Yet ANOTHER mind flayer retcon: they come from the FUTURE!!!!11!1! I think this is about when I started getting fucking sick of mind flayers and the assorted wankery due to WotC needlessly changing them. I'm pretty sure I could make a burger out of a cow from classical Akkadia and it wouldn't make me grow tentacles or have three eyestalks or look like a squid. That's actually not that long ago, other than a few extinctions the creatures of that time weren't THAT different to consider them aliens. Now, I soiled myself looking at Young Earth Creationist cites, and that happened in 2300 bc according to them (I'm assuming they know their own mythology in this, because although I can point out that's retarded I can't really argue that's not what their holy texts say). Neither did I, so I looked it up, it means before the biblical flood. They use the word 'antediluvian' a lot, which tells me that they don't know what it means. Either they come from so far in the past or they're time travelers from a strange and alien future. Props for mentioning Spelljammer, that setting was fucking awesome.Ģ. A classic, and people like me that were introduced to fantasy through the Final Fantasy and Fantasy Star games, or trippy Philip Jose Farmer novels will dig this, there is precedent for mixing sci-fi and fantasy (even Star Wars has wizards and magic swords and shit). Your aliens can come from the following places:ġ. Some of it is very good and neat and ripe for a nice, vigorous deflowering. This chapter goes through a lot of ways to explain where aberrations come from.

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