I seem to remember there being lore somewhere of Beholders kidnapping adventurers to force them to judge a strange competition called the Dropping. That’s all I can remember about it.
Does anybody out there know where this lore is from? I’m trying to make a holiday for my homebrew setting and I’d like to know a little bit more for flavor.
Perhaps the beholder knocks NPCs down chasms and has the players count how long it takes for them to reach the bottom?
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I’m working on fleshing out a holiday. The idea is a kind of cross between Halloween and April Fools Day. People make piñatas that look like beholders and throw them out windows and off roofs at people dressed as adventurers. But it’s driving me crazy that I can’t find this one bit of lore. I know it’s out there!
From VGtM: (...but given what I've seen of Volothamp Geddarm, the truth may be stretched thin.)
A beholder can use its telekinesis ray in conjunction with its antimagic cone to lift a heavy object above the cone and drop it onto an opponent inside the cone; gravity finishes the job, even though the cone negates the beholder’s telekinetic control.
Sound like the beginnings of a kind of Beholder game, to me.
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I found it! It’s in an old TSR book all about beholders. Apparently, she;a bunch of beholders get together, in order to figure out who’s in charge, they fly up to 1000’ in the air then play chicken with the ground. The hook is they kidnap people to judge it because they don’t trust any other beholders to be impartial.
I found it! It’s in an old TSR book all about beholders. Apparently, she;a bunch of beholders get together, in order to figure out who’s in charge, they fly up to 1000’ in the air then play chicken with the ground. The hook is they kidnap people to judge it because they don’t trust any other beholders to be impartial.
What was the book called?
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I seem to remember there being lore somewhere of Beholders kidnapping adventurers to force them to judge a strange competition called the Dropping. That’s all I can remember about it.
Does anybody out there know where this lore is from? I’m trying to make a holiday for my homebrew setting and I’d like to know a little bit more for flavor.
Perhaps the beholder knocks NPCs down chasms and has the players count how long it takes for them to reach the bottom?
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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Homebrew (Mostly Outdated): Magic Items, Monsters, Spells, Subclasses
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
I’m working on fleshing out a holiday. The idea is a kind of cross between Halloween and April Fools Day. People make piñatas that look like beholders and throw them out windows and off roofs at people dressed as adventurers. But it’s driving me crazy that I can’t find this one bit of lore. I know it’s out there!
From VGtM: (...but given what I've seen of Volothamp Geddarm, the truth may be stretched thin.)
Sound like the beginnings of a kind of Beholder game, to me.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I found it! It’s in an old TSR book all about beholders. Apparently, she;a bunch of beholders get together, in order to figure out who’s in charge, they fly up to 1000’ in the air then play chicken with the ground. The hook is they kidnap people to judge it because they don’t trust any other beholders to be impartial.
What was the book called?