Homebrew Beholder Species Details

Beholders are immediately identifiable, being essentially a floating head with one single, cyclops-like eye surrounded by ten smaller eye stalks. Other than this, the main feature of a beholder's anatomy was its massive, gaping maw. Because of these features, beholders were occasionally known as "spheres of many eyes" or "eye tyrants,".

Because their entire body is covered in eyes, beholders have the capacity to see in all directions at once, making it nearly impossible to ambush them while also giving them an unusually high degree of perceptive ability. Although beholders lack the capacity to see color, they have the ability to perceive even in the most darkened environment, under conditions in which a human or similar creature would be rendered blind.

Beholders are also capable of flight, in spite of their lack of wings or similar physical features, simply hovering above ground effortlessly. The effects of this flight resemble those of the spell “levitation”.

Beholder Traits

Your Beholder will be great at many things. A result of intense competition and natural selection in the underdark.

Darkvision

Your Beholder will be able to see in the dark up to 60 feet away from itself.

Advanced Perception

Your Beholder gains a proficiency in perception and gets a bonus of +2 in passive wisdom (perception).

Advanced Constitution

Your Beholder’s constitution increases by 2.

Advanced Intelligence

Your Beholder’s intelligence increases by 1.

Advanced Charisma

Your Beholder’s charisma increases by 1.

Bite

Your beholder can use an attack called “Bite” to do 1d6 of piercing damage.

Intimidation

Beholders are very scary, therefore, your Beholder will gain proficiency in the skill of intimidation.

Language Proficiencies

Your beholder can speak 3 languages. These languages are deep speech, undercommon, and common.