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Returning 35 results for 'beholders'.
Compendium
- Sources->Monster Manual
Beholders One glance at a beholder is enough to assess its foul and otherworldly nature. Aggressive, hateful, and greedy, these aberrations dismiss all other creatures as lesser beings, toying with
only thing it fears is that it might be wrong.”
— Valkara Ironfell,
dwarf sage
Xenophobic Isolationists. Enemies abound, or so every beholder believes. Beholders are convinced that other creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Beholders True beholders are isolationists that despise others of their kind, but their dreams can give rise to a variety of lesser beholder-like creatures, a few of which are described here. Death
away or kills any gauths that enter its territory, but it might choose to enslave them and use them as lieutenants. Gauths are less xenophobic than beholders, so they might form small clusters and work
Compendium
- Sources->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True To those who would seek to conquer beholders or merely understand them, nearly everything about their quarry is unfathomable. These bizarre creatures are possessed of
beholder is nearly unassailable thanks to the combination of its peerless intellect and the brutal effects of its eye rays. Some of the behaviors and motivations that beholders exhibit are analogous to
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speak any languages but can approximate words and sentences it hears, mimicking them in a high-pitched, mocking manner. Beholders find gazers amusing and tolerate their presence like spoiled pets. Some
beholders with wizard minions insist they take a gazer as a familiar because the beholders can see through the eyes of these creatures.
A wild gazer (one living separately from a beholder) is
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’t speak any languages but can approximate words and sentences it hears, mimicking them in a high-pitched, mocking manner. Beholders find gazers amusing and tolerate their presence like spoiled
pets. Some beholders with wizard minions insist they take a gazer as a familiar because the beholders can see through the eyes of these creatures.
A wild gazer (one living separately from a beholder
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;beholders. The Far Realm’s strange power can pervade a beholder’s dreams, resulting in the birth of an oculorb.
Oculorbs resemble a slimy conglomeration of eyes in many sizes and shapes
. They are dreaded even by the beholders that birth them. An oculorb is a tangle of negative emotions—the fury, melancholy, and obsession of its creator, all given gruesome, corporeal form. Like
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","rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage.Aartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane
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tentacles, each ending in a mouth full of teeth. It can speak through any of its tentacle-maws in a high-pitched, nasal voice.
Death kisses fear true beholders, which can easily kill or subdue them
Monsters
, sendingAartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane.
Aartuk cells can be found throughout
Equipment
Beholders carve tyrant ship;tyrant ships out of stone using their disintegration rays and use these ships to wander the Astral Plane, looking for worlds to conquer and rival beholders to destroy. No
functions as a spelljamming helm that only beholders can attune to. Any beholder that occupies this chamber can attune to it. Reducing a tyrant ship to 0 hit points not only destroys it but also destroys the
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with plantsAartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane.
Aartuk cells can be
actions
Beholders carve tyrant ship;tyrant ships out of stone using their disintegration rays and use these ships to wander the Astral Plane, looking for worlds to conquer and rival beholders to destroy. No
functions as a spelljamming helm that only beholders can attune to. Any beholder that occupies this chamber can attune to it. Reducing a tyrant ship to 0 hit points not only destroys it but also destroys the
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. Gauths are less xenophobic than beholders, so they might form small clusters and work together, though they’re just as likely to ignore each other entirely.
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
matriarch from which all beholders descend—Gzemnid lurks within a deadly network of smooth tunnels, obscured by toxic clouds and laced with traps and illusions. Beholders prowl the gaseous labyrinth
Compendium
- Sources->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Tyrant Ship Beholders carve tyrant ships out of stone using their disintegration rays and use these ships to wander the Astral Plane, looking for worlds to conquer and rival beholders to destroy. No
spelljamming helm that only beholders can attune to. Any beholder that occupies this chamber can attune to it. Reducing a tyrant ship to 0 hit points not only destroys it but also destroys the ship’s
Compendium
- Sources->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Birth of a Beholder Beholders can produce others of their own kind, but the process has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with psychology. When a beholder sleeps, its body goes briefly
images of itself or of other beholders (which might or might not actually exist). On extremely rare occasions when a beholder dreams of another beholder, the act creates a warp in reality — from which
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liquid expanses, thousands of eyes of every size and shape peer into the endless darkness. Beholders, dolgrims, and stranger aberrations dwell within the halls of the citadel, which is one of the few
vehicles
Beholders carve tyrant ships out of stone using their disintegration rays and use these ships to wander the Astral Plane, looking for worlds to conquer and rival beholders to destroy.
Compendium
- Sources->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
running this level of Undermountain, review the description of the death tyrant in the “Beholders” entry in the Monster Manual, as that information will help you roleplay the death tyrant that claims the Obstacle Course as its lair.
Compendium
- Sources->Spelljammer Academy
Handout 1: Tyrant Ship Map Tyrant Ship Map Notes (Clockwise)
Tyrant Ship
Recommend you construct an anchored rope ladder in one of the access shafts for moving between levels.
Mind the Shift! Command Deck
We're not sure what these are for... resting? With beholders, who knows?
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
central eye from Lorthuun or Xazax (the beholders in chapter 9), they can search the Vast Oblivium for the beholder believed to lair there.
Compendium
- Sources->Spelljammer Academy
complement of beholders. Once aboard, the recruits must install a spelljamming helm on the tyrant ship’s Command Deck, where a nefarious trap awaits them. Part 2: Like Clockwork! The recruits begin their
Compendium
- Sources->Spelljammer Academy
Background Tasked with retrieving a meteorite from the planet H’Catha, the characters and their fellow Spelljammer Academy cadets boarded a derelict tyrant ship (a stone vessel built by beholders
Compendium
- Sources->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Fantasy Monsters Any monster can find a place in a dark fantasy plot. D&D’s most iconic threats—such as dragons and beholders—are well suited to horror-tinged tales, as are any other
Compendium
- Sources->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Physical Characteristics As a byproduct of their unique method of propagation, beholders in one part of the world tend to look similar, with variations becoming more pronounced the farther one
following tables to produce a variety of different appearances for beholders. Beholder Body Diameter 2d6 Body Diameter 2 4 feet 3–4 4½ feet 5–9 5 feet 10–11 5½ feet 12 6 feet Beholder Skin Color
Compendium
- Sources->Spelljammer Academy
Wizpop and six other autognomes served the beholders that crewed the tyrant ship. After the beholders abandoned the ship, the autognomes were attacked by clockwork horrors. Wizpop (whose name is etched in
Compendium
- Sources->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Xanathar’s Lair Xanathar’s lair is an ancient dungeon complex originally built by Netherese wizards and expanded by beholders over time. It connects to the subterranean town of Skullport by way of a
Compendium
- Sources->Player's Handbook
Dragons, dragonborn Draconic Deep Speech Mind flayers, beholders — Infernal Devils Infernal Primordial Elementals Dwarvish Sylvan Fey creatures Elvish Undercommon Underworld traders Elvish Draconic Alphabet
Compendium
- Sources->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
can’t remember where the gold is hidden. Before running this chapter, review the “Beholders” section of the Monster Manual, particularly the section titled “A Beholder’s Lair.” Within its lair, Xanathar
Compendium
- Sources->Candlekeep Mysteries
tunnels to the Underdark. Terrifying creatures such as arcanaloths, beholders, and vampires would find themselves at home in such places.
Compendium
- Sources->Basic Rules
with nature, not in opposition to it. Druids accept that which is cruel in nature, and they hate that which is unnatural, including aberrations (such as beholders and mind flayers) and undead (such as
Compendium
- Sources->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Darkon Darkon presents a dystopian fantasy setting perfect for exploring the darker sides of familiar magic and monsters. Creatures such as dragons and beholders that might be ill
Compendium
- Sources->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Aartuks Aartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane. Aartuk cells can be found
Compendium
- Sources->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon with an equally ancient hatred of beholders and their kin. After losing both parents to beholder attacks, he fled to the Lake of Steam in southern Faerûn. There, he discovered the resting place
of a martial order known as the Knights of the Crescent Moon, who had fought beholders in an ancient war. Bleucorundum found the knights held in stasis, awaiting the day they would be called upon to
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
here. He claims to be fascinated by aberrations, beholders in particular. He has confirmed that there are no beholders in the duergar or svirfneblin enclaves, but he hasn’t yet been able to explore
the drow or Zhentarim enclaves. Peebles is the deranged, neutral evil servant of Xazax the Eyemonger, a beholder that hunts other beholders, takes their eyestalks, and grafts them to its own body