Some individuals slimy, warty or armor-plated, and some having annulated or Beholder physiology has a great amount of variation, with These networks can take the form of cults, thieves’ They hate anything they cannot control,Īnd usually keep a stable of slaves and minions through bribes, threats, and Their motivations are primarily a combination of Manifest as new beholders, or creatures that combine beholder features with Where beholdersĭwell, a feeling of malaise and dread settles, and strange and aberrantĬreatures are much more common. Manifestation of deadly magical talents, and every beholder can use aīlistering array of powers. Beholders were dreamt into existence as a Its upper surface, peering in all directions. It has an oversized central eye, and ten eye stalks growing from This creature is all head, vaguely spherical with a slavering set ofįanged jaws. The DR is inspired by the DR/byshek that 3.5 Eberron gave to a lot of the more fragile aberrations.] I did borrow from some other editions’ beholders as well. And the mechanics for eye rays as immediate actions and the limits on how many it can fire without busting out a protractor make it both manageable and memorable at the table. Fortunately, I quite like the 5e conceit that beholders are literally dreamed into reality. Making them a colonial species with a “hive mother” made them feel less special to me. Partially because I didn’t like a lot of the lore that accumulated onto the beholder over the years. Partially to avoid overlap with which covered the beholder and most of the other classic D&D monsters years ago. I’ve resisted doing a beholder for years. There’s only one real “Monster Manual” of creatures from cover to cover, and the newest announced monster book appears to be entirely a revision of stat blocks from previous sources! That said, the monsters it does have tend to be thoughtful, interesting takes on D&D classics, and there are some cool original monsters scattered throughout (albeit less than one might expect from a ten year old version of D&D…)įor example, the beholder.
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Namely, it’s the edition of the game with the fewest monsters in it. [Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition has something of a monster problem.
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“Hive of the Eye Tyrant” © Wizards of the Coast, by Tony DiTerlizzi.