Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d6 − 1) piercing damage.
Eye Rays. The spectator shoots up to two of the following magical eye rays at one or two creatures it can see within 90 feet of it. It can use each ray only once on a turn.
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Confusion Ray. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw, or it can’t take reactions until the end of its next turn. On its turn, the target can’t move, and it uses its action to make a melee or ranged attack against a randomly determined creature within range. If the target can’t attack, it does nothing on its turn.
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Paralyzing Ray. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
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Fear Ray. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the spectator is visible to the target, ending the effect on itself on a success.
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Wounding Ray. The target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 16 (3d10) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Create Food and Water. The spectator magically creates enough food and water to sustain itself for 24 hours.
Spell Reflection. If the spectator makes a successful saving throw against a spell, or a spell attack misses it, the spectator can choose another creature (including the spellcaster) it can see within 30 feet of it. The spell targets the chosen creature instead of the spectator. If the spell forced a saving throw, the chosen creature makes its own save. If the spell was an attack, the attack roll is rerolled against the chosen creature.
Description
A spectator is a lesser type of beholder—a foul and deadly aberration. It resembles a floating sphere with a gaping maw and a single great eye, set within four eyestalks that shoot forth deadly rays.
This thing wasnt too hard for my players to beat when I first DMed with my brothers.
Does the Armor Class not need to read either a) natural armor in brackets or b) have 'natural' removed completely?
How do I summon one exactly, can only spell casters do so (if so, which?)
Does it have to be a guard, or can I take it on my adventure as a pet?
At which level would it be appropriate to summon one?
What happens when my druid shapeshifts into a giant Toad and swallows the Spectator? Can he still use his rays? do they have a affect on me? can anything besides damage help him escape my swallow?
Spectator? I barely know her!
Genius. If a party could get one to follow it around, it could be an infinite food source (as long as they don't accidentally get it killed).
yooo im gunna put this monster in the campaign I'm writing
Well... strictly speaking an action is 6 seconds. Which means that a Spectator could do this 14,400 times a day. So you would need around 548,611 spectators to feed the near 8billion people.
Could you consider yourself treasure, and have it guard yourself?
Or
Can you carry the treasure with you, and have it follow you around that way?
By strict RAW the Spectator could not use its rays because it would be blinded and it needs to be able to see its targets. However, a reasonable ruling would be to say that blinded condition is meant to model the fact that the swallowed creature cannot not see anything but the inside of the creature that had swallowed it, not that the swallowed creature is literally struck blind. Spectators have Darkvision so it should be able to see your insides, which I would argue counts as seeing you, which means you would be a valid target for the eye rays. I would say getting hit with a fear ray would force you to release the Spectator if you failed your save.
Alternatively the Spectator could repeatedly use its Create Food and Water ability to fill you up and force you to gag/vomit. There are no official mechanics for resolving such a course of action but that's why we have a DM. Maybe after 2-3 uses of the ability you'd have to start making Constitution saving throws to hold on to the Spectator, starting off at something like DC 13 and increasing it by 1 each time the ability is used.
Also, an assumption is being made that whatever Spectators sustain themselves on is safe to eat and nutritious for non-aberrant creatures native to the material plane. At the very least I say chances are good that their diet would be unpalatable to most humanoids.
DnD Mike Wazowski
This monster is actually really cool, even if its a simplified Beholder
Being how alone they are, I decided to put one in my campaign that thought shadows were the main antagonist in the entire world. So when characters try to get past it, it asks if they work for the shadow, and that it must guard the relics from it.
"The What?"
los amo
una ves un mago le tiro fire bol y se murio
hola a todes
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kinda looks like the gaurdians in minecraft
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