u/Dikeleos

I’m using an eldritch lich as one of the bbegs of my campaign. However I’m having the worm be a member of a race of powerful psionic worms that use psionics to control masses and bend reality. So it’s a little more aberrant than undead.

The lich has taken control over thousands of minions over hundreds of years and controls “Hivebarges” as flying vessels. Basically meteors that fly via psionics. The majority of their army was captured from a world with mostly crustacean, insectoid and aberrant life. Chuuls, thrikreen, grick, roper, etc.

I’m looking for more minions and also higher CR commanders that they could use. I was considering Aboleth as a common commander the lich uses but Aboleth were heavily present in my previous campaign and I’m slightly adverse to using them. Any ideas?

My players are exploring an astroid controlled by a faction tied to the far realms. Any items that feel alien, weird, or aberrant? I have both books on dndbeyond but failing to find good matches.

What’s your opinion on giving players some form of map of the dungeon they are in? I try to be clear and concise when describing the environment and location however it still leads to some confusion or furrowed brow confusion. What if I gave them just a map of the dungeon with redacted secrets/obvious danger? In the past I’ve taken a picture of the map and covered portions of the map. However that’s slow and clunky.