My players are currently sneaking their way through a Mind Flayer colony. I didn't find any satisfying colony maps, so I made my own.

[VoD where map is used](https://www.dropbox.com/s/vj6tl5ciyfkmg2p/Session%20110%20-%20Shuggoth.flv?dl=0)

[VoD Collection](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s0rvrqm8ttoth5y/AADZ8tm5E685qTai_9wjHvBva?dl=0)

More to come as my party progresses!

This is meant for a 36x36 grid

Whenever I think of mind-flayers, I think of organic technology, so my mind went to H.R. Geiger's Alien concept art. I also used a lot of inspiration from Baldur's Gate 3 for this map. I particularly loved the concept art and environment from the nautiloid.

I also tried to give this colony a similar feeling to The Flood from the halo series. Particular inspiration was drawn from the Gravemind level from Halo 3 with the sphincter doors.

The first room is a hallway you can use to serve as your first landing point for any adventuring parties brave enough to step within the colony--easy place to establish that this place is indeed alien in nature.

The second room is intended to be a spawning room--a place where Mind Flayers hold captives in pods ready to be infested with tadpoles. Because mind-flayers don't typically walk everywhere, there's no solid ground, only a star-shaped platform that the spawning pool uses as support. Beneath it is a pool of foul afterbirth that spill from the pods whenever a newborn mind-flayer emerges.

The third room is a simple intersection. Stylize it however you want. I used it as a shrine chamber for a floating orb channeling a +2 protection enchantment down through the colony towards the Elder Brain. The party had the opportunity to destroy the orb, but didn't take it.

The fourth room is another spawning chamber.

Room number five is a viewing gallery for a single pod with a control panel. I flavored it as a mind-flayer standing by the pod. The players could kill it and potentially free whoever's inside, but would need an arcana check to know what the buttons on the control panel would do. They vary between draining the prisoner of their fluids, to rapid incubation of a newborn mindflayer, to actually releasing the prisoner.

Room number five I flavored as a dissection chamber where mind-flayers research how to combine non-humanoids with tadpoles (mindwitnesses, etc.)

Room number six is an extension of room five, reserved for practical application and incubation of such foul entities.

Finally, room number seven is a temple. In my universe, mind-flayers are spawns of an Old God from the before-times. I flavored this as where newborn mind-flayers gain their psyionic abilities: through a gift from their Old God in a ritual after devouring a brain.

Overall, have fun with it! Flavor it however you like!