So I am curious what you can do with harvesting monster parts in D&D. In all the games, books and versions is there any myths or legends or rituals that can be done with a beholders eyes? Maybe creating a anti magic field or locating something? I know with 4 of its tentacles you can create a spectator. I just wonder if theres any more information on the subject. Anything at all?
Most stuff you are going to find on this is probably going to be homebrew material. This is mostly because the game proper has not directly gone into detail of what happens when your table game becomes a monster chop shop. I've seen a few PDFs here and there in the DMs Guild website that cover selling and using monster parts for various things, but mostly you are just going to have to go with what feel right at the time.
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I generally use them as reagents for creating magical items. You kill a beholder, harvest its eye, and them a magician uses that beholder's eye as part of creating a crystal ball of some kind. The dwarven blacksmith takes the dragon scales from the red dragon and makes a dragonscale armor, then uses the bones to serve as the core of a Flametongue blade. The assassin makes poisons with it, the herbalist makes an advanced healing potion, and the alchemist makes a potion of haste.
Or sell the parts to interested parties who might use them for magical rituals / item crafting that the PCs don't have access too.
I have either done it as the players can sell the bits from the creatures for a similar amount of gold they would have made from that level of encounter, or as a reagent for crafting. Example from mine was they wanted to take the feelers from a rust monster, so they traded them to a smith to repair the damage done to their equipment and the smith wants to see if he can make something with corrosion resistance out of it. Depending on how far the players pursue this I may start adding in equipment that reflects the items they have sold off at that point.
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So I am curious what you can do with harvesting monster parts in D&D.
In all the games, books and versions is there any myths or legends or rituals that can be done with a beholders eyes? Maybe creating a anti magic field or locating something?
I know with 4 of its tentacles you can create a spectator. I just wonder if theres any more information on the subject.
Anything at all?
Most stuff you are going to find on this is probably going to be homebrew material. This is mostly because the game proper has not directly gone into detail of what happens when your table game becomes a monster chop shop. I've seen a few PDFs here and there in the DMs Guild website that cover selling and using monster parts for various things, but mostly you are just going to have to go with what feel right at the time.
What about games or books? Iv heard that the eye of the beholder is a treasure a valueable one.
I generally use them as reagents for creating magical items. You kill a beholder, harvest its eye, and them a magician uses that beholder's eye as part of creating a crystal ball of some kind. The dwarven blacksmith takes the dragon scales from the red dragon and makes a dragonscale armor, then uses the bones to serve as the core of a Flametongue blade. The assassin makes poisons with it, the herbalist makes an advanced healing potion, and the alchemist makes a potion of haste.
Or sell the parts to interested parties who might use them for magical rituals / item crafting that the PCs don't have access too.
I have either done it as the players can sell the bits from the creatures for a similar amount of gold they would have made from that level of encounter, or as a reagent for crafting. Example from mine was they wanted to take the feelers from a rust monster, so they traded them to a smith to repair the damage done to their equipment and the smith wants to see if he can make something with corrosion resistance out of it. Depending on how far the players pursue this I may start adding in equipment that reflects the items they have sold off at that point.
"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."
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This Mug immediately shared with me a transcendental tale of an Infinite Mug that anchors the Universe and keeps it from folding in on itself. I filed this report under "illogical nonsense" and asked why its sign is in Times New Roman font, when it is basic knowledge that Arial Black is a far superior font. I wondered: How did this mug even get past the assembly line with its theistic beliefs and poor font choices?
quote from Romantically Apocalyptic by Vitaly S Alexius
I bet you could make a wicked Wizard Eye out of one of the smaller eyes.