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Low-fantasy D&D aliens?

I want to stick aliens 👽🛸 into my next D&D campaign. My idea is to have little grey men show up in a flying saucer and abduct the party. However, I'm worried that this is too comprehensible for the average #DnD character. I want the PCs to be confused, but not the players! What's the weirdest alien you've ever thrown at your D&D party?

Side note, I also want to give the baddies #mechs. How do I mechanically handle this?

#DM #dming #ttrpg #scifi #fantasy #mech

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

If you look up Expedition To The Barrier Peaks it's a dnd module from the 80s where the party investigates a crashed spaceship and deals with robots and aliens, it's still pretty good I'd say

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Just adding that illithids were first introduced in this module as the aliens.

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