Beholders - A Classic D&D Monster - Web DM
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I was in a campaign where our party ran into a beholder. my move was to throw a salt cube i had in my inventory in its main eye. Chaos ensued. That beholder was pissed.
Chris Leathco if you throw a salt cube and roll 20 what happen?
The cube breaks mid air and hits a bonus eye.
@@chairulimran9205 the beholder shrivels like a slug
Salt cube? We used the hottest pepper powder we can found in water deep.
That's the dumbest salutation to fighting a beholder I ever heard and I wish I thought to do it.
Beholders prepare for every eventuality they can think of but don't usually need to prepare for reckless abandonment. What with them being able to shoot death-rays and negate magic.
Isn't it INSANELY hard to catch a Beholder off guard? I mean, they have massive intellect and think everyone is out to get them all the time. They go through hundreds of scenarios in their head even before anything bad could happen.
Their eight eyestalks are literally their defense mechanism alongside their proficiency in magic
Use their paranoia against them and exploit how considering every scenario can cause decision paralysis. The problem with considering thousands of possibilities is they have mutually exclusive responses.
Lets say the beholder "considered" the party was a distraction yet also considered they were not a distraction but the main threat. They cannot be both, yet if they are either they need totally different responses. Less "thoughtful" enemies wouldn't even consider the threat in front of them is a distraction that must be ignored to face off the other threat.
@@PeopleForgotten
You're best bet would be to either do something reckless, make the Beholder's lair unsafe, or trick them onto fearing a made up threat.
Yeah but they're paranoid to the extreme, if the sensible thing to do is to infiltrate they'll fortify their lair against that, however they won't expect you to do something like break down the doors
"Beholding them back" Perfect pun delivery. xD
Every time my players get too comfortable and in need of humbling that is when I know it is time for the Beholder encounter. My favorite thing was charming the Ranger's Animal companion an having it attack him. keeping the ranger busy, keeping the sorceress asleep, and the rest of the party huddled behind pillars. They did eventually defeat the beholder but it was one fight they will remember that there is always a bigger fish. Oh, the rogue did get petrified.
You could always try to say that there's another Beholder that thinks it's the best thing in existence. If you do that with the Beholder you're about to fight, it'll try to go find/fight the one you lied about.
I feel like they are *really* underselling just how insanely overpowered a Beholder can be.
One of my favorite of the various beholderkin was the Spectator, from 3.5's Lords of Madness. It wasn't malicious or evil. It just wanted to chat.
projectbaum same!
The one in Baldur's Gate 2, which shows up in the expansion too, was one of my favorite characters :D
Really? Is someone finally making high quality, consistent Pen and Paper content?
All of it. Take all of it. My yes that is.
We aim to please. So, you aim too please...especially when firing into melee.
+JPruInc unless you have precise shot :)
I see some of those "EVIL" monsters... and i just imagine one of them as a pet... just imagine a small beholder floating and flipping arround near you.
I have a similar thing in my campaign, where once of the npc's is guarded by a spectator.
Nanael OverLock Gazer I think It's called.
royalroadl.com/fiction/8894/everybody-loves-large-chests
Prepare to fall in love with a kill happy treasure chest that likes to ask if something is tasty or shiny xD
The bloodkiss °^°
there is a Beholder in "Enter The Gungeon" armed with Pistols, Tazer, and Rocket Launcher. 2nd Boss
it's called the "Beholster"
Yup, the Beholster. And his signature pistol is the "Eye of the Beholster"
My group and i had a weird kill of the beholder.
Almost all of us are near death and 2 have died and we have a guy called... Sven so was perfectly fine not a scratch even. He like to make epic moments really really weird. He is over the beholder and there is a loose pillar. He manages to trip on something and hit the pillar. It fall right on the beholder killing it. Funny thing is Sven manages to trip (again) and falls right on the pillar that is over the beholder and he hits his head and dies.
How our Dm made the place:
Think of the place like a big room with two floors and there like pillars all over the place except in the middle.
Sven is that kind of guy that always make the crazy sht happen.
saw this video and immidiately subscribed. Well edited and well structured.
+Yarden Raveh
Same :D
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Taking20
**Serbscurrbed
While my teammates were dithering on how to face the beholder in the next room, my dwarven fighter charged in and scored a critical hit with his bastard sword, killing it outright. When he began attracting followers they came looking for "The Guillotine."
A d& d classic.. And to be exáct forgotten realms changed the way beholders think or react..
Hey so I think a beholder would never ever be caught dead underestimating any threat. Ultimate narcism about themselves and infinite paranoia are their most defining traits. They would never ever ever even let a potential threat go overlooked.
Great video and kudos for the closed captioning, I'm sure your hard of hearing viewers appreciate it a lot
This makes typing them out worth it. Glad to help out.
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I love the style of this video. Great job.
I really enjoyed this! Please have more "d&d history" videos! :D Keep it up you are awesome
Any good DM worth their salt puts a Beholder in a true lair and definitely not hovering 5' off the ground so you can grapple it! I think you all need to talk about Lairs and for those very intelligent creatures what they would do to make sure they survive, would have lairs that fit them. Black Dragons with underwater entrances, beholders with vertical shafts and even large halls to fire from above. Do lairs add to the CR level?
Coming from a 3.5 player - No that I know of. The player handbook (if I remember right) even gives an example of flying creatures taking flight with rocks to throw at the players. That's usage of flight and terrain, which doesn't increase CR. It also applying if your wizard is changing the dungeon walls to your advantage - that doesn't mean the monsters are easier (or that the CR decreases), it means you used your opportunity well.
With the 5th edition extra ray (or eye action thing) they mentioned - I have no idea.
It does increase it a bit depending on the effects or monster, but that’s in 5e so cant say for sure earlyier editions would
I think in every edition, flying is included in how they calculate xp/CR... So it's already kinda baked in
Most memorable experience for my players was encountering a flumph colony with a Mindwitness that they had converted to good after exterminating the nearby Mindflayer colony. They explained to the good pancakes of the underdark that they needed to find a way out, so the Mindwitness carried them to the surface throughout large series of tunnels.
I killed one by digging and dropped its lair on top of it.
The best thing about Beholders is keeping their eyes as trophies. Also if you have a cool DM you end up with the monk getting a beholder eye popped into one of his sockets
The "Eye Tyrant" - so cool
absolutely dialeks! Love that analogy thank you. Gives me a good way to roleplay them
Beholders are vicious!
I love the history in this episode
Your games sound like so much fun, I wanna play!
Beholders
It’s all doom and gloom until your goblin bard sings a song and is now best friends with satan the beholder
Idea for an interesting beholder npc: a beholder who was more or less mind raped by a wizard, we know beholder zombies are a thing so it's possible. During it the beholder managed to resist enough to read the wizard's thoughts during the cruel experiment, and saw the cruelty beholders inflicted from anothwr point of view. He continued being given this treatment for years, all the while secretly scanning the wizards memories for the secrets of the arcane. One day, he escaped, killing the wizard and all in his lair, before heading off to his former clan. Once there he used his new arcane knowledge and his beholder powers to wipe them out in a suprise attack, and set up camp in the ruins. Now he waits there, surronded by beholder bodies, waiting for them to come and try killing the buggest threat to their race.
Johnathan Grishaw Beholder don't have clans!
You should do an episode about oozes, misc undeads such as wights ,shadows, liches and wrackspawn, worms and remorhaz, cockatrice and pyrolisk.
Man it’s weird going back to vintage webdm
I love the beholder cult quest of the sewers in baldurs gate.
How to kill a beholder 101.
Step 1: find a sack.
Step 2: crush some glassware in said sack, make sure it's a fine powder.
Step 3: glass powder goes in the eyes.
Step 4: Profit.
Beholder eyes are hard as gemstone, good luck with that.
ramses1079 Jesus Christ you got butt hurt over this. I'm almost certain he was making a joke but even if he wasn't your reaction was over the top and a half. "You kids these days" really?
***** I was more pointing out that a D&D channel is not the place you'll find people who care much about masculinity, but do take the argument wherever you feel more comfortable. You have done absolutely nothing in an attempt to address the original point of this probably being a joke, good luck with all that anger and ad-hominem.
RainbowKiwiLord POCKET GLASS
What's beholding this channel back
Also, Eye of the Beholder I and II came out on the Amiga as well. And also imagine the Zhentarim with beholders as well.
I remember a ring of 50 beholders as a trap/death zone.
Could you temporarily blind a Beholder with an extremely bright flash of light? Or a laser pointer?
Thank bards for Bardic inspiration saves. Pulled teams out of trouble so many times.
absolutely love beholders :)
ive only just started playing dungeons and dragons but I was thinking: if you chop of medusas head and showed it to a beholder would it kill the beholder in the game? I'm playing the dm and that could be a pretty neat thing to have in the story. kill medusa to kill a beholder........ cool!
You could absolutely allow that, or set up your adventure to present that as a solution for your players! :D
nice thnx :) first game story here we go!
Uh. Invisibility don't work on beholders. Polymorph doesn't work. Etherealness doesn't work.
They're frickin' beholders. They see EVERYTHING. It's what they DO.
EDIT: (Well, disguises might work. Dress your fighter like a mage and your mage like a fighter... But even hiding-in-shadows is a serious gamble with the big B.)
Also, they're the Dalek of D&D. Daleks aren't defeated physically (except for stairs, sometimes...) You RUN, and you BLUFF.
1st level characters can take on Beholders, because they aren't meant to be fought: they're the spectre of death and the failure of isolationism. They're more of a plot tool than they are a "punch them in the face" enemy.
In all my years I've never had the joy of running a Beholder.
I was in a group of lv 11s we had a ranger a cleric a sorcerer a wizard and a barbarian. Our wizard died in like the second round of combat by failing his dex save by 1 and the death beam did exactly enough damage to kill him doesn't help that he rolled aids for his hp and had only like a +1 or +2 con mod he had like 50 to 70 hp total I think he rolled max twice not including the first level. For reference my current lv 6 wizard has almost 50 hp and has 18 con. Oh oh yeah and he was a diviner and he used his portent roll to succeed on a climb check ha yeah I forgot about that. We managed to kill it our sorcerer dealt The final blow with a lightning bolt. Then The beholder turned into a death tyrant and killed all of us except the cleric who escaped due to divine intervention. He later died due to a yuanti cult.
Have the melee grapple the beholder and block his central eye with his body, assuming your DM would allow this ( I would especially because defeating a Beholder requires some creativity). It only has a 10 str so its not hard assuming they can get to it and assuming they aren't charmed, petrified or asleep before this happens. Then the spellcasters can pummel it to their hearts content. The beholder also cant move if its grappled. A well placed barbarian is key in defeating one since their strength is way higher than the beholder and the massive pool of HP would keep them alive through its massive damage. Also Blind/Deafen, would shut a beholder down. They do not have constitution as one of their saving throws so its only a +4. Meaning potentially blinded long enough for you to destroy it
Volos Guide actually states they have minions
very good video
But my favorite spherical alien death machine is the gibbering orb :(
+Magnus Anderson
I would consider the gibbering orb to be a beholder as well as a gibbering mouther.
Which is indeed a cool combo.
+Millstone1985 idk, id have to check my monster manual to see but i don't remember it having eye rays
Magnus Anderson
It had those in fourth edition. Not sure about others.
Magnus Anderson
I found a pdf of the third edition's Epic Level Handbook and, yes, it is a spherical alien death machine that will both drive you insane with its gibbering and shoot all manner of eye rays at you. It is also described as a possible "common ancestor of both the gibbering mouther and the beholderkin", although I think it would be funnier if it were a gibbering mouther that had eaten a beholder.
@@Millstone1985 where can I find stats for that thing? My players need to fight one. I don't think the want to but they need to.
There is a beholder in Big Trouble in Little China.
I think it'd be cool to pick and choose the rays you want every round and try to petrify a bunch of people and be extremely strategic- you could then be merciful and say if they tear off an eyestalk they can through such and such process reverse its effects. This of course only works if your party can take a Beholder casting all its favorite rays, which is probably a much higher CR all things considered
Me and the rest of my party absolutely destroyed a beholder in just a couple rounds... we were level 6.
All I will say is Operation Flying Bag Assassin.
In asure bonds the book, theirs a weird halfling named false that turns into a beholder like thing.
What was that it had mouths instead of eyes no eyes at all.
3:03 I know not who is more powerful. The one who made the pun or the one who seamlessly ignored it.
Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder.
Question: Which one? :)
Dunno about the beholder underestimating the party. We're talking about one of the creatures in d&d with the highest intelligence and paranoia. If the beholder has even an inkling that the party is on its trail, I would have had it scry the shit out of the party. Figure out everything about them. Traps, "plans for any plausible scenario" (within reason... or?). Information is key, that said, if the party can actually stay under its radar it might be in for a surprise.
I’m running 5e in a modern setting, inspired by early supernatural and Buffy. How could I port beholders into this? I was thinking one eye can create and illusion of a human avatar while the beholder is hovering above or behind the avatar image with invisibility. How would a beholder hunt? Or would they go after thing more like treasures or modern artifacts? Like the dec of independence because it’s actually a high level spell scroll.
what the heck were you doing back in the first 3 levels with tod uphill?
Anyone else hear TirarADeguello's intro music in there?
Could you trap a Beholder in an Otiluke's Resilient Sphere? Or would its anti magic beam cancel out the magic in front of it so that it could escape?
But with all that power... comes great responsibility.
I heard somewhere that beholders had reality warping abilities? Was that wrong?
Addressing the quetion of Beholders for ole playing opportunities: Instead of using a Beholder in your adventure as a monster to be fought make it an NPC who has vital information. How do you get a Beholder to share it's knowledge with you? (P.s. this is a common piece of advice I have about alot of evil intelligent monsters, it make a campaign allot more fun!)
Please make a video on the far realm
Bless sounds like it would help a bit.
Can someone PLEASE tell me what song is playing from 0:32 to 1:47?
What if there was a beholder with long claw-tipped arms (hands included), massive horns, three eyes (maybe or just keep it a 1), and a long, sticky, tentacle like tongue to grab the player then bring them in and take a bite outta them? That would be pretty cool, maybe even an armoured variant?
The Red Beholders Wrath
*THE BLOOD/WAR GOD* A red horned beholder that has clawed hands connected to arms, with a long, sticky tentacle tongue, and is heavily armoured, smart, egotistical, strategic, brutal and ruthless. A beholder that lives up in either a dungeon or a dormant volcano lair, with thier own *war elves* a mix of drow and the tribal orcs, a new dangerous, hateful race bred for war by the beholder. And other creatures that follow the beholder, orcish tribes, kobolds, goblins and whatever else you choose that worship the beholder. Being that the beholder is is seen as a god by it's minions, the creatures worship, give sacrifices to appease the beholders insatiable hunger, give any treasure from raids and war and more. All to be protected from the beholders wrath!
The beholder is starting a war against nearby villages, then soon towns, then cities, then capitals and finally against all the races that won't fall under its evil will! You and your team are tasked with defeating the insatiable evil, and when you do, you will be granted free reign to a large treasury, given an immeasurable amount of free pardons of crimes (as long as they're not something like slaughtering the city guard, or the king himself. Or robbing a bank), large amounts of fame, booze and woman. All for defeating this blood/war god, a life or death situation, will *you* make it out alive?
10 seconds in and I already raise the question: "Wait, can I not cast spells because I'm muted? because if so, I could spend 1 sp to cast it without any verbal or sommatic elements"
Can you do an episode on mundane weapons?
So, is there a precedent for a beholder that's been captured by Illithids and implanted with a tadpole?
Just curious.
How do you fight them ? Like does it say how much health it has or what ?
They're Daleks. You don't fight them. You bluff them into destroying themselves.
1:39 That's a Spectator
Don't all stand in one direction of a beholder try to spread out so it can't get you all in the anti magic cone
Beholders are creatures of extreme paranoia. They often imagine their death's and how adventurers would do it. Then they make a plan for it. No matter how absurd, the Beholder will have thought of it.
Eye hope I don't have trouble with this one.
I think this video did a horrible justice to the Beholder.
They are incredibly intelligent. Not every one has to be solitary and afraid of every mouse, kobold or drow. Terrain should be an advantage of the Beholder, especially with the disintegration ray. 150 feet away? Disintegrate the floor, walls or ceiling. Beholders should be quiet as they float adding to their surprise factor. These should be major nemesis, not goblin bait.
this is the video were they got lighting and uped some of the quality
a possibly good class maybe a warlock specifically a archfey warlock thanks to favor toward teleportation
can you team them up with mind flayers? Would that make sense somehow?
If you're the DM you can team them up with anything you want, but if you need justification, just know that they are both aberrations that often dwell underground and in the underdark.
You can save in D&D?
I am sure beholder was inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft,it has some roots in the literature.
I think the cacodemon of Doom game whas inspired on beholder.
Israel Martínez it was the astral dreadnought I think not the beholder.
I am a dm and I a playing as the villain as a death tyrant and every thing that kill joins my army of death including 2 players and in the final fight its my army verses them
isn't there a beholder in futurama?
iptf Yep,and a rust Monster and the froghemoth.
You never know till you try?
why won't you do tomb of annihilation
Beholders have been nerfed over the years as to not outshine Dragons. They need to undo the decay.
My warlock casts darkness, he can see in magical darkness. Goes in with a bow. While in the antimagic field I use the bow. As soon as the central eye looks away for his other eyes to target me I am in darkness he can't target me.
Then I cast blindness on him. Then I laugh maniacally at him.
his central eye shouldve destroyed the darkness
It's an anti magic eye. Not a dispelling eye. Once it looks away the darkness comes back as per the antimagic field spell.
With true sight, beholders can see in magical darkness. They can see invisibility. They can see through polymorph. They have natural extraordinary spot that can NON MAGICALLY SEE THROUGH INVISIBILITY. Your DM failed to play the **ALL SEEING** BEHOLDER correctly.
So really, you're not mocking beholders. You're mocking your stupid DM for failing to play a beholder correctly.
I always thought the Beholder looked a bit Lovecraftian.
What exactly do you guys mean by monologue? beholders are only to speak under common and deep speech
common a language EVERYONE knows.
+August wettborg *is
August wettborg sorry but can you read?? UNDER common! I know that this was a year ago but...
HELLO?!?
i was playing DM once and i had a crystal beholder that reflected my teams fire bolts and they all went down on the second round of combat lol
A desire for racial purity kinda makes you a villain on earth... but what about elves hating dwarves or drow hating elves? Is that evil translated?
I killed a Beholder in one round pretty much by myself the only thing that helped was flanking.
I don't think you can really flank a beholder, apart from its main anti-magic cone eye. The eyestalks are constantly moving so it has no blind spots AFAIK.
insektl0gic my dm gave me flanking bonuses.
Hmmm, flanking may work if you were invisible, obscured from view, or (possibly) ambushing from directly underneath where eyestalk coverage may be sparse at that particular moment, or rear-facing eyestalks were blinded / damaged, or it was something that appeared as a beholder but it was something else / something related to beholders.
Otherwise, it sounds like your DM may have given you a free "get out of TPK" card with that move.
insektl0gic I don't know but this may clear it up: this was many of our first times playing, it was a one shot, we were all level one, and I was told it was a Beholder.
Throwing a Beholder at level 1 players. Ouch.
Beholders are recommended against a Level 13 party (CR 14 if in lair).
Did it explode toxic gas when killed? Could have been a Gas Spore, a form that mimics a Beholder's appearance that spawns from the arcane energy infused mold from a Beholder's corpse, and often mistaken by adventurers for a Beholder until they kill it.
Why are you using the beholder from forgotten realms and not the actual D&D beholder?
Psst... WoTC should make the "Troll" creature as a TPK monster with infinite actions and speed.
Almost stopped watching after "the eyes have it" glad i didn't