The basic premise of Baldur's Gate 3 is very simple: you have an illithid tadpole in your head and you want to get rid of it; the Steam page for Baldur's Gate 3 clearly states that players can "embrace corruption and become the ultimate evil"

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Illithid is a powerful psionicist, and the advantage of having your brain slowly bitten by an Illithid tadpole is that you also get some pretty impressive abilities. (The advantage of being slowly bitten on the brain by an illithid tadpole is that you also get some pretty impressive abilities (the disadvantage is celemorphosis, or the forced transformation of your mind and body into an illithid.) In Baldur's Gate 3, another hidden skill tree called Illithid Powers In Baldur's Gate 3, another hidden skill tree, called Illithid Powers, allows one to actually develop and evolve one's newly discovered abilities.

Baldur's Gate 3 players who wish to continue on the path of the mind flayer will need to find and consume more tadpoles in jars, pools, or the skulls of other infected primitive illithids. The tadpoles taken in will unlock new illithid powers in a skill tree consisting of 25 "mind flayer-inspired" abilities.

"These are divided into five branches themed around manipulation, restoring strength, psionics, and the ability to inflict immense damage or to torment and gradually weaken an enemy over time," Larian said.

"Some of the abilities allow you to manipulate the people around you and make them say things in dialogue that they would not otherwise say. Others give them the power to push or pull their enemies like ragdolls in battle.

One of these abilities even allows it to transform into a displacer beast (a giant black feline predator with six legs, two large tentacles, and the ability to bend light, which it uses as powerful camouflage), a creature famous in D&D lore: in the recent movie " Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the displacer beast made an impressive appearance.

According to the D&D sourcebook, some keep them as pets, especially among the fey. Doesn't seem like a very good idea to me.

At least some of your people are similarly afflicted with ilicid, and can eat tadpoles to enhance their abilities. But, as in "Baldur's Gate," not everyone will think it's a good idea, and some of them may get into serious trouble. Other aspects of the adventure "are a little more ...... complicated," Larian forewarned, but declined to go into further detail, saying, "You'll have to discover that."

The good news for feature producer Molly Taylor is that according to D&D rules, iris tadpoles do not have to enter the skull through the eye sockets: they can also enter through the nostrils or ear canals. Wouldn't that be better?

Baldur's Gate 3 will be released on August 3