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Can you use True Polymorph and an Intellect Devourer to potentially learn Deep Speech and a secret?

Frame challenge: You are writing a script, not a scenario. This is a script that the players are expected to follow. Not a game they are expected to tackle by themselves. Don't prep plots but let the ...
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Can you use True Polymorph and an Intellect Devourer to potentially learn Deep Speech and a secret?

Yes this works for the secret and deep speech temporarily Once you have occupied the humanoid form of the intellect devourer, you gain it's knowledge and deep speech: It knows everything the creature ...
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Can an Intellect Devourer use Body Thief on body that already has an Intellect Devourer in its skull?

The description of the Body Thief Action leaves some room for interpretation. The description of the action leaves some possible ways to decide in a way or another: at the end, it is a DM call. Target ...
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Can an Intellect Devourer use Body Thief on body that already has an Intellect Devourer in its skull?

It's not that clear, but as written probably not The Body Thief ability states The intellect devourer initiates an Intelligence contest with an incapacitated humanoid within 5 feet of it that isn't ...
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Can an Intellect Devourer use Body Thief on body that already has an Intellect Devourer in its skull?

A creature that is a host of an Intellect Devourer is not a Humanoid The intellect devourer initiates an Intelligence contest with an incapacitated humanoid... The Intellect Devourer does not change ...
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Can an Intellect Devourer use Body Thief on body that already has an Intellect Devourer in its skull?

I don't think so There is no rule that directly specifies this as far as I'm aware so every DM would have to decide this for themselves but I don't think this should be possible. First off, the trait ...
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How long do Intellect Devourers live?

I don't think we know As far as I'm aware, the lifespan of intellect devourers is never given. This is the case for a lot of monsters in D&D as the lifespan is rarely relevant to gameplay or even ...
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How to create systemless stats for monsters?

Option 1: The real world is system agnostic Write it like you would write an entry about a real world creature. So for example look at how entries in various (non RPG) books are written about brown ...
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Can a Gnoll Pack Lord target itself for Incite Rampage?

Like players a monster can target themselves. As an example, for spells players can always target themselves unless a spell says otherwise. I think it makes sense that the Gnoll Pack Lord should be ...
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Can a Gnoll Pack Lord target itself for Incite Rampage?

It's ambiguous but unlikely That it is ambiguous is mostly because it is unclear if "a creature within X feet" of it includes the Gnoll Pack Lord. All the rest of the requirements would be ...
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Are gibbering mouthers immune to each other's area effects?

Gibbering Mouthers cannot hear and therefore are not effected by the gibbering of other Mouthers nearby. From the Monster Manual descriptions they are composed of ONLY mouths, eyes and liquified flesh....
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Can a psion with Metamorphosis and Assume Supernatural Ability create an army of Scythers of Thoon under his command?

RAW on this is inconclusive, likely yes This question is eerily similar to this one, but this one might work. It depends on if you think Metamorphosis is a similar effect to Polymorph. Assume ...
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Can a psion with Metamorphosis and Assume Supernatural Ability create an army of Scythers of Thoon under his command?

Yes, but it's more complicated than the question makes it out to be Strictly speaking, a creature can take the feat Assume Supernatural Ability (launch spawn (Monster Manual V 115)) (Savage Species 30–...
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How to create systemless stats for monsters?

You should have no trouble describing your creatures without any reference to a System, or even system-related concepts like "stats" or "attributes". Just describe them like you ...
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How to create systemless stats for monsters?

Provide relative terms that are likely to appear in most systems One approach is to provide the descriptions in a way that refers to items that will appear in most systems. If you say, "The hide ...
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How to create systemless stats for monsters?

Focus on concepts, not on statistics It's not that system agnostic monster handbooks cannot be made, in fact there are successful examples, that you could use as inspiration. But I think you should ...
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Is the Spirit Troll unable to be knocked out unless it doesn't regenerate?

An Alternate Ruling I feel that the other answers have adequately addressed the question from a strict rules as written standpoint, however, I would like to offer a different take on the situation ...
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