But something as small as a change in hide color or size of the central eye can make two groups of beholders sworn enemies. Some have obvious differences, there are those covered with overlapping chitin plates, and those with smooth hides, or snake-like eye tentacles, and some with crustacean-like joints. The basic, beholder body-type (a sphere with a mouth and a central eye, eye-tipped tentacles) allows for a great variety of beholder subspecies. This is because of a xenophobic intolerance among beholders that causes them to hate all creatures not like themselves. Habitat/Society: The beholders are a hateful, aggressive and avaricious race, attacking or dominating other races, including other beholders and many of the beholder-kin. Destroyed eyestalks (but not the central eye) can regenerate at a rate of one lost member per week. Slaying the body will kill the beholder and render the eyes powerless. Both beholders would have smaller eyestalks/eyes that take 5-12 (1d8+4) points of damage to destroy, but such damage would not affect the body or central eye. A beholder with 45 hit points will have a body that will take 30 points of damage, a central eye that will take 15 points, while one with 75 hit points will have a body that will withstand 50 points of damage, and a central eye that takes 25 hit points to destroy. The remaining third of the listed hit points are located in the central eye, and destroying it will eliminate the anti-magic ray. The body can withstand two thirds of the listed hit points in damage before the creature perishes. This loss of hit points is over and above any damage done to the central body. The beholder can withstand the loss of its eyestalks, each eyestalk/smaller eye having 5-12 hit points. If attacked from above, the beholder can use all of the smaller eyes. The central eye can be used only against attacks from the front. Generally, a beholder can use 1d4 smaller eyes if attackers are within a 90 degree angle in front, 1d6 if attacked from within a 180 degree angle, 1d8 if attacked from a 270 degree arc, and all 10 eyes if attacked from all sides. Spells cast in or passing through that zone cease to function.Ī beholder may activate the magical powers of its eyes’ at will. No magic (including the effects of the other eyes) will function within that area. The central eye produces an anti-magic ray with a 140-yard range, which covers a 90 degree arc before the creature. Death ray (as a death spell, with a single target, 40-yard range).Slow (as spell, but only a single target).Flesh to stone (as spell, 30-yard range).The standard smaller eyes of a beholder are as follows: When attacking a beholder, determine the location of the attack before striking (as the various Armor Classes may make a strike in one area, and a miss in another): RollĮach of the beholder’s eyes, including the central one has a different function. In addition, they often speak the tongues of other lawful evil creatures.Ĭombat: The beholder has different Armor Classes for different parts of their body. The globular body of the beholder and its kin is supported by levitation, allowing it to float slowly about as it wills.īeholders and beholder-kin are usually solitary creatures, but there are reports of large communities of them surviving deep beneath the earth and in the void between the stars, under the dominion of hive mothers.All beholders speak their own language, which is also understood by all beholder-kin. The most extreme of these creatures are called beholder abominations. These creatures are related in manners familial and arcane to the traditional beholders, and share a number of features, including the deadly magical nature of their eyes. Among adventurers, beholders are known as deadly adversaries.Įqually deadly are a number of variant creatures known collectively as beholder-kin, including radical and related creatures, and an undead variety.
This creature, also called the sphere of many eyes or the eye tyrant, appears as a large orb dominated by a central eye and a large toothy maw, has 10 smaller eyes on stalks sprouting from the top of the orb. Beholder and Beholder-kin I (Monstrous Manual)
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