Whoops, accidentally did player character options twice. Have an extra! I want at least something here to not just be a person with different skintone, the amount of humanoids in a row is starting to wear on me >_>
On the left is the Flind, the gnoll god's favorites! 7 feet (2.1 m) and 300 lbs (136 kg) of pure muscle, and if you're into pain that flail can temporarily send you into a frenzy or paralyze you! Other than that it's just a big powerful hyena person with no fear and a love of fighting. Gotta love a leader who leads by example, putting themselves on the frontlines!
On the right is the oblex! An INCREDIBLY intelligent ooze made from mindflayer experimentation. They absorb your memories, skills, personalities, languages, everything! They can Charm person or Detect Thoughts at will, and have domination and hypnotic pattern spells for extra fun. Even if they haven't eaten a person, just having copied thier memories is enough for them to recreate them, forming up to 13 creatures at once. So if you're up for a slimy orgy, this is for you! You might struggle to remember after, but you actually regain lost memories after a good night's sleep!
And If you're wondering how a 5e original is so messed up and lore heavy and cool, it's because they didn't make it. This was a Make-a-Wish monster of Nolan Whale. This dying child's final wish was to give us a fucked up bodysnatcher ooze that devoured people and stole thier minds and forms, recreating them for its own goals. Truly a noble cause. Rest in Peace, if only you'd lived to bless this earth with more of these glorious creations.
[ID: A digital drawing of Jewel, a humanoid Oblex Dungeons and Dragons character belonging to @drunkfaunsshitposts. She is light skinned with red hair, red eyes with yellow irises, and she has a mass of red tentacles emerging from where her mouth should be. She is wearing a white shirt, brown leather gloves, a leather harness, and leather straps on her arms. She has her arms crossed and is looking to the right with an eyebrow raised. End description.]
In last night’s Icewind Dale session, we got trapped in an enchanted tower and had to fight an Oblex.
It stole the memory of my character’s (wildshaped as a wolf elemental) first crush and then used her form. It also killed one of our party members, charmed the other one, and betrayed our temporary ally. 0/10 experience would not recommend fighting one of these blobs
My favorite D&D monster is the oblex. They're a slime that takes control of people's bodies and eats their minds and they have some kickass art, but that's not the main reason why I like them. The base idea for oblexes was made by a kid with cancer using his make-a-wish. I have to imagine the D&D designers were like "okay, let's get ready to make like a unicorn made of cheese or whatever" and instead this kid proposed one of the most disturbing monsters that exists in the entire game and they were like "...oh". As a former make-a-wish kid, I am both delighted by this and furious that I wasted my wish when I apparently could have spent it on designing a D&D monster.
This is an oblex, by the way: