Greetings let me first say thanks for checking out my Post i really appreciate any help you may give!
So Im doing my first beholder in my campaign ive dumbed it down to a CR5 im making it where the PCs buy a ruined keep for cheap like 100gp and they have to go clear the monster out of it but they find a riddle door that leads then to a labyrinth and that leads them to a cavern system that leads to the beholder lair..... My questions are what kind of monsters should i put in here i mean in the MM book it says that beholders trust nothing so idk if they dont have them in the lair or what did the beholder purge the labyrinth not trusting mobs so close... i was thinking about making Orcs n goblins etc etc take over the ruined keep that seems to be a theme for the campaign so far... then the labyrinth itself is ran but a minotaur king i made him also CR5 but then theres the thing where maybe 2 powerful CRs right after each other is a bad thing maybe i should make the Beholder stronger? what kinda monsters should i have roam the labyrinth or should i have none?
Honestly, beholders are not always evil and ready to kill your PC's. You could beef up the Minotaur King with a few minions and the Beholder is thankful for them rescuing them, till he doesn't need them that is.
He gives them missions to go out and complete, bringing back trinkets that will empower him and then they either need to take him out or destroy him. just an alt thought to mainstream.
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I just want to tell everyone "happy gaming" and actually mean it. Whatever your game is, just have fun with it, it is after all, just a game.
has this been a lair for beholders for a while, will there be that beholder fungus Gas Spore. Is this somewhere that you want other aberration creatures similarly as grotesque as the beholder himself (example gibbering mouther). Abandoned places might have some undead elements, perhaps adventurers slain by the beholder. Maybe the beholder has invited some humanoids to protect him and goblins, ratfolk, kobolds, or some other verminesque creatures.
But Matthias probably asks the best question.
What do you want to put in your rundown keep.
Maybe think of problems people run into when buying a new house and find a fantasy element to equate to that. Drawing references from reality can be fun in that way.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
Maybe the Beholder has summoned a Spectator to guard it's lair/treasure. You could have it having fought another beholder for this lair, and killed it, used it's stalks to summon the spectator and maybe the other beholder is now roaming the labyrinth as a Beholder Zombie (-4 of it's stalks)
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Greetings let me first say thanks for checking out my Post i really appreciate any help you may give!
So Im doing my first beholder in my campaign ive dumbed it down to a CR5 im making it where the PCs buy a ruined keep for cheap like 100gp and they have to go clear the monster out of it but they find a riddle door that leads then to a labyrinth and that leads them to a cavern system that leads to the beholder lair..... My questions are what kind of monsters should i put in here i mean in the MM book it says that beholders trust nothing so idk if they dont have them in the lair or what did the beholder purge the labyrinth not trusting mobs so close... i was thinking about making Orcs n goblins etc etc take over the ruined keep that seems to be a theme for the campaign so far... then the labyrinth itself is ran but a minotaur king i made him also CR5 but then theres the thing where maybe 2 powerful CRs right after each other is a bad thing maybe i should make the Beholder stronger? what kinda monsters should i have roam the labyrinth or should i have none?
Any feed back would be great thanks in advance!
Yours truely,
Lord Tortheldrin
P.S. if this isnt allowed here please move TY!
What monsters do you want to put in there?
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Honestly, beholders are not always evil and ready to kill your PC's. You could beef up the Minotaur King with a few minions and the Beholder is thankful for them rescuing them, till he doesn't need them that is.
He gives them missions to go out and complete, bringing back trinkets that will empower him and then they either need to take him out or destroy him. just an alt thought to mainstream.
I just want to tell everyone "happy gaming" and actually mean it. Whatever your game is, just have fun with it, it is after all, just a game.
has this been a lair for beholders for a while, will there be that beholder fungus Gas Spore. Is this somewhere that you want other aberration creatures similarly as grotesque as the beholder himself (example gibbering mouther). Abandoned places might have some undead elements, perhaps adventurers slain by the beholder. Maybe the beholder has invited some humanoids to protect him and goblins, ratfolk, kobolds, or some other verminesque creatures.
But Matthias probably asks the best question.
What do you want to put in your rundown keep.
Maybe think of problems people run into when buying a new house and find a fantasy element to equate to that. Drawing references from reality can be fun in that way.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
Maybe the Beholder has summoned a Spectator to guard it's lair/treasure. You could have it having fought another beholder for this lair, and killed it, used it's stalks to summon the spectator and maybe the other beholder is now roaming the labyrinth as a Beholder Zombie (-4 of it's stalks)