My plan is on some random campaign to convince a sleeping beholder to dream up an everlasting banana for me that grows back from the peel once per day, fully satisfies hunger, cannot be destroyed, may cause the eater to glow for one hour at random, and whose peel can cause any enemy with legs to slip and fall down if I roll a natural twenty after throwing it at them but will backfire if a one is rolled. I shall be the first and probably only banana sorcerer. Also, if this dream creates a banana-themed beholder, I shall dub it Bananaholder.
@@PeculiarVisitor Unfortunately, no. Since the guys I play D&D with have been really busy with kids, jobs, etc. Also, because our last campaign wasn't D&D, but Alien Invasion, and there weren't any beholders in that. Just more or less the creature from The Thing. We're planning a proper D&D session this month though, so fingers crossed, I guess.
Step 1: Roll up a bard. Step 2: Advance your bard to a high level. Step 3: Use divination magic to find a Beholder. Step 4: Teleport to the Beholder's lair while it's sleeping. Step 5: Have your bard use music to affect the Beholder's dreams. Step 6: Have the Beholder dream of becoming good. Step 7: Repeat steps 3 through 6. In the case of sleepless Death Tyrants, have mortal Beholders dream that the Death Tyrants are good. Step 8: ???? Step 9: PROFIT
6 months late but @ step 5 Be me play that song Proceed to roll a 1 Beholder wakes up and proceeds to kill me while my party is laughing just outside of the cave >.
I strongly desire a Beholder rancher who hires adventurers to enter a Beholders dreams in order to attempt to create designer Beholders or Beholder-kin
let them drink enough blood to keep them and you both going, eat a lot of food and drink a lot of water to help produce more blood, wait a couple months, rinse and repeat.
Bloodshark123 then what? was this love child thrown through a dimensional rift that collided with the dream realm to give it creation based dream powers?
@@dragonmanfirebane5078 Something like that, the doors were overloaded upon one use, tearing a whole across all planes of existence. The child was reduced to a disembodied consciousness, decaying through eons in the plane of nightmares, until manifesting itself in similar planes, where the divisions between nightmares and reality are blurred, and insanity reins supreme. It is unknown just how long it took but the beholder today is but a warped reflection of a realized dream of the original beholder, trapped in a prison forged from madness, the final resting place for the dimension torn child of Mike Wazowski.
I would consider nukes to be force damage and fire damage for initial blast, anything that dies or is destroyed is instead disintegrated (as per the spell, but without magic). Anything which survives uses a modified taint system for radiation. No magic involved, in fact the area directly around ground zero is a null-magic zone for as long as the radiation persists, having torn the very fabric of the weave. There are not many good ways to resist force damage, especially what essentially boils down to an [Ex] source of it o_O
one beholder is already a nightmare, but twenty!?. imagine you're a guard patrolling a city wall, the days been horribly boring and uneventful just walking up and down the wall over and over, wishing for something interesting, anything to make the day less boring. immediately after thinking that you hear the warning bells ringing across the city "finally something interesting!" you think only to look up to see twenty beholders descending over the city.... WAIT, TWENTY!!!?111 TWO FUCKING ZERO!!! "nope" you say then promptly turn around and step off the wall just giving up at that point.
My first thought when hearing there could be any kind of beholder is a town where golfball sized beholders congregate in swarms as just another part of the population. While true they could suddenly dream up an evil beholder the evil ones just end up being food for the more abundant neutral ones. And then I imagined a scene where everything is fine, the beholdlings are working for someone, an adventurer remarks how cute they look being all tiny, suddenly a tiny evil one pops up nearby and the beholdlings get this massive toothy grin splitting their face in half as they rush forward and swarm the evil one tearing it to bits. The adventurer takes a few steps back wide eyed as one of the many burp.
Gotta love Death Tyrants. Human liches: I studied for YEARS to achieve immortality! Dracoliches: *impossibly complex process that fails more often than it works* Beholder Liches: Yeah, I just didn’t want to die, so I decided not to.
I actually convinced a DM to let me have a beholder kin eyeball as a familiar one time. WOW that was an op familiar. 360 degree sight so I couldn't be caught flat footed because of his sight. 60' flight speed. I could cast spells through him and he could cast his own spells for free. I think his AC was almost 30 or something ridiculous like that. Not to mention, the sorcerer that I was playing had draconic heritage feats. Once again my DM started creating encounters just to kill me and continued to fail.
My party has developed a... Method. They have a Jug of Alchemy, and so their tactic: First the enemy gets covered with Alchemist's fire. Then oil. Then the party simultaneously unleashes two fireballs, a lightning strike, a blast from an Improved potion of fire breathing, and a blast from what one of my players have created that's effectively a flamethrower (just 2d6 damage, no bonuses, so its fine.) These in total, do 36D6. I am running a level 9 party, and now they can do once per day, 36D6 DAMAGE. I am tempted to use a beholder.
As a lvl 10 paladin/warlock/fighter, using divine smite and eldritch smite, and action surge, you could feasibly do 8d6 (4 attacks greatsword) + 12d8(5 paladin smites (cast one and use divine smite on each attack)) + 2d8 (lvl 2 eldritch smite) +4d6 (1d6 per attack if you cast hex prior to combat) and each attack does prof bonus ( hexblade's curse) and charisma modifier of dmg. Assuming charisma modifier is +5, +10 from great weapon fighting (offset the -5 to hit with +5 to hit from devotion paladin channel divinity) and +1 to hit/dmg from improved pact weapon (total +20 dmg per attack) Total 12d6 + 14d8 + 80 dmg in one turn, without any magical items. This is from only one character, image a party of 4 of these, 48d6 + 52d8 + 320dmg in one round.
Love that you're doing DnD lore - is it possible you could focus on the broader things? Like setting, or the different realms/cosmology of the universe? Just so those who don't actually play the game can get a sense of where all this stuff is
Discord I probably laughed a bit too hard at the "lag" part. I've been waiting like 3 years to have another session of my favorite campaign, and just when my wizard broke into the fifth-level spells! There's no methadone for this game!
I have a concept: a beholder that’s gone insane after realizing there were better beholders, and always strive to make itself better, by attaching itself surgically to things, like dragons, and strives to find a tarrasque
An adventurer walks up to the cave of a death kiss. Crouching, he slowly walks in . After a walk that lasts only minutes but feels like hours due to his fear of the beast, he comes to a chamber with a white orb with its eye closed surrounded by dead rodents and human skulls. The adventurer gasps at the sight of the monstrosity before him, it awakens and turns to face him, he realizes what the creature is and tries to run but the death kiss grabs him with its stalk and after a few seconds it opens the holes in its other stalks and says "LEAVE NOW OR I SHALL KILL YOU!" The man chuckles, then giggles, then he laughs a booming laugh. "DON'T LAUGH AT ME, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT I AM?!" The adventurer struggling for breath says " Your voice! its the funniest thing ive ever heard! you sound like a nasally mouse with breathing problems!" The death kiss is enraged and embarrassed and throws the man with all its might out of his empty cold stone home. "NEVER COME BACK!' he screamed in his ironically funny voice, and closed off the entrance to his cave forever. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓷𝓭
Well this was very interesting i will want to look up that Eye of the Deep latter. you know this might explain the game" Enter the Gungeon's" version of the Beholder better (named the Beholster) seeing how it is trapped in a dungeon full of guns, missiles and bullets it would make sense that it would dream of those things.
How about an Overseer that controls Hive Mothers who in turn control lower beholders. It would be like the Zerg but every unit is as powerful as a Laviathan. In this way you could actually create a Beholder empire. That would be interesting in a story. You also need to cover the Tarrasque.
Great video! In fact, I love all of your videos - especially the TES and the DarkSouls ones! Almost a year ago I had a very traumatizing panic attack, and ever since Your videos helped me get through those really harsh times! (Confirmed therapeutic material 10/10 :D ) So yeah! Keep up the good work!
I would really like to know more about those Overseers... Especially about the part that they can create things at will. Couldn't find anything about that anywhere. If there wouldn't be just so few information about them, I think they, and this abbility, would deserve an own Video.
Great video, and also very cool to see you covering multiple franchises! From DnD it'd be really interesting to hear your take on the Atropals (levitating fetuses of the necromancer-god IN SPAAAAACE) which are a personal favorite of mine despite very little being known/written about them. But something telles me that wouldn't stop you :) Keep ut the good work!
All most wonder what a wizard or any other powerful magic users would do if it was able to capture a Death Tyrant in a medallion or other type of artifact, where that person can use the Death Tyrants full powers for his own use? If they get creative, all most wonder if one was to think up a type of body where they can use a humanoid type of body form, making a giant type of character only to fly off the form when they like an still control that headless body separate to do things. Wonder if a Beholder could become a type of collector of information or gangster type of set up gathering information an using it for it's own use and maybe running it's own gang, maybe being a type of wizard in away?
Extra funtimes... Beholders in Spelljammer. Fleets of warmongering Beholders under the command of a Hive Mother, unified by being identical, on an eternal galactic crusade to wipe out all the other Beholder fleets that are different in any way. They mostly consider the rest of the races to be scenery, and have another type of Beholder-kin called an Orbus (small, milky-white, blind, and with no eye powers) that functions as a living Spelljammer Helm.
holy crap in fing hell... your description of this de beholder make it come to life (lol) insanely well!!! having this thing just gazing upon you made it really look terrifying!!! ...subscribed! ty so much for sharing!
It's about time a quality narrator decided to take on D&D lore... so much material for videos! Hope you keep this up for years so a massive compendium is online for the hobby, good work, great quality!
They are wizard beholders, they have to renounce to it in order to study magic. Instead of having spell slots they use their tendril eyes to memorize spells, being able to use those spells at will in the form of eyeblasts, only one spell per spell level as limitation and they also have to acquire wizard levels in order to learn spells. A high level one could attack with a Meteor Storm, a Polymorph, a Fireball, a Cone of Cold and many other spells each round.
This was a nice watch, it's great to see someone with a good voice explain DnD lore (a lot of others sound bored or depressed). Always nice to hear things explained with enthusiasm. Perhaps in the future you could cover lore on the some of the less popular DnD races like Planetouched and Tieflings. The few videos I could find of them weren't really all that good at explaining their back stories and what they're about.
I am a fan of the Ultima games (PC). As a dungeon master, I created a Beholder-kin species called Headless, inspired by the Ultima monster and Beholder-kin. The central eye is inside their mouth, where the neck should be. The eyestalks are generally retracted but subtle and the body is humanoid but really tough. They become a different kind of monster once they kill an intelligent creature that is smarter and takes its head. I have had a major D&D campaign story about the super-tough barbarians that cooperated with goblinoids on that one and the players woke up to "WTF? They both oppose their people attacking our commissioners too?" The Headless are Wizard experiments of Beholder flesh. They appear as headless humanoids, really strong and really violent and hard to kill (Ultima headless, no vital strikes mean a thing). However, if a kill is of someone stronger or smarter and the head is relatively intact, the Headless will take the head off the corpse and take all the abilities of the individual as well as the complete mimicry of the individual for the purpose of said headless's gain. While used by the headless, the head stolen will be preserved as if still alive and the spirit or soul will be trapped of such beholder-kin magic. The mouth, the gaping maw, was where the headless had its "missing head." The main eye was on the tongue inside the mouth, able to explore the everything of the severed head tossed into it. They eyestalks formed the neck and shape-shifted to keep it alive and transform the Headless into an evil tough version of the decapitated victim. The Headless, as that person, was the best of the Headless and the victim in all ways... with perks. The advanced Headless can now sprout a new eyeball tipped tentacle to do one of 8 magical things at will if the eye sees it, but that leaves it open to attack and gets killed if it takes more than 10% of the damage of the host in a single round. Damn... I'm going full nerd. Sorry.
I'm a little disappointed you didn't mention anything outside of 5e, the AD&D Spelljammer setting introduced whole ecosystems of beholderkin to inhabit beholder ruled planets.
ever considered where the space beholder fits in (SpellJammer monster manual 2nd ed)... also look at the last monster from that book... that humanoid armoured monster with 25Strength and almost peak 25's across the board was one hell of a monster... immune to everything basically and I think could kill almost everything, but I'm getting off topic. Check out the what a death tyrant of a Space beholder would be like?!?
How to protect a town with ferocity: Summon a group of spectators and assign anyone wearing the town's symbol as allowed. as long as that measure is not known to outsiders the spectator's will hunt anyone who comes to do harm.
i always wanted to play a Beholder Bard once, whom loved to play his tunes for an audience, but always got depressed, since no one could be affected by his chanting tunes... so he always had to have his back to the audience while playing....
Overseer controls 1 hive mother and the rest death tyrants, one of the hive mother's beholders is a blood kiss, one spectator, one gauth, one eye of frost and fire, and the rest other various types. Total fucking chaos.
Overseers look a lot like depiction of the love craft eldrich god shubnigarath. Perhaps the beholder race has some connection to the great old ones as they do seem to come from a similar, if not the same, realm as them
Our Bard charmed a Death Tyrant, not magically just naturally it fell in love with him because of a very high performance roll and after it was destroyed it came back and we don't know how it did it or where it is, the good news is we haven't seen it for months but who knows his Beholder groupie could return
Or the overseer controls 20 hive beholders, those control 20 death tyrants, so on and so forth until endless armies of blood kiss beholders swarm around the overseer, making it practically an unstoppable god. A shiver at the thought of such a thing.
I have yet to delve deep into dnd lore aside from your videos so this may be a stupid question but would it be possible for a human or elf or whatnot to become a or fuse with a beholder/beholder-kin?
so put a pair of earbuds in its earholes playing positive messages as to influence it when it sleeps and that it dreams of itself becoming a good beholder.
You could have the gm play as a beholder that is friendly to the party and in it's subconsious it creates the random enemies, terrain and encounters, without realising it, in campaigns that don't seem to belong and now have a reason why.
3:30 some of those beholder look like the Keepers Creepers monster. In fact he had a lair filled with victims and he was obsessed with eyes... The Creeper: confirmed beholder
Could a 'good' beholder exist, one that saw its purpose as the perfect being was to become a beloved king - venerated by the 'lesser' creatures that crawl the world, a favour which it returns by benevolently watching over and supplying for its subjects.
Use a Hive Mother to dominate a dozen Overseers, who each dominate twenty of a unique type of Beholder. Then you have a full hive for an epic battle for your party to tell of if they survive🙂
Well a couple notes: this video is amazing, it gets some things wrong. First of all while overseers are very strong you are wrong at 13:25 you say the the overseer has the ability to control twenty beholders. Well first of all this changes from edition to edition but overseers have only ever been able to control beholder-kin. Not true beholders. While hive mother’s can control a theoretically infinite number of beholders although it gets harder with each no beholder for various reasons. Note 2 you forgot about elder orbs. What are elder orbs? Immortal wizard beholders with access to almost any spell. Although they slowly lose eyestalks and are very slow but I mean they can summon DEATH TYRANTS with their magic (and control them). Elder orbs are also a runner for most powerful beholder. note 3 you also forgot about some lesser known beholders such as: Directors, Observers and Gourgers Directors are larger than average beholder-kin that have six eyestalks with about the same variety of eye rays as a normal true beholder. But directors use there tentacles to latch on to creatures and control them perfectly. Observers are about the same size as directors except this time they’re chaotic neutral and still have 6 eyestalks. They have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, they can also use their psychic abilitys to turn creatures into servants. Gourgers are ruthless carnivores that ruthlessly and indiscriminately kill all beholders the see because they are created by the phaerimm
somthing I forgot to add, but Note 4 Noteable beholders (haha) Zanathar(s) Zanathar is a beholder(s) that created a thieves guild in Waterdeep than was killed then a new beholder took up the mantle(problobly killed the first one) and also the name this happened like 5 times until we are left with the 6th or 7th Zanathar (I think his real name is Zukuush or somthing) that we all know and love (he is also the one seen in all the campaign’s and zanathar’s Guide to evreything and etc. 2 Large Luigi Not much is known about this beholder. What is known is that he one of the very rare beholders that are non-agresive. He runs a tavern known as the laughing beholder and is one of the most knowledgeable and enlightened beings in the multi-verse. ( I believe his tavern is in Waterdeep but I’m not sure I’ll have to do more research)
Found this out to day but, Large Luigi is actually from the spell jammer setting and found his way into the forgotten realms. He was originally from a beholder faction and he was on a ship but he was outcast from his faction because of slight difference he made a bar on some random rock and eventually learned a lesson in humility because of this and probably hitchhiked to the forgotten realms setting
Ah yes, Find Blood kiss -> Contain Blood kiss -> Give it a Blood Feeder... Feeder only works if Blood kiss is stabbed... -> Blood kiss Generator cell has been created
Question: Does the main eye of a Beholder, specifically Death Tyrant ones, retain its magical properties when removed or when the Beholder dies like how Medusa's gaze still works even when she's just a head?
My plan is on some random campaign to convince a sleeping beholder to dream up an everlasting banana for me that grows back from the peel once per day, fully satisfies hunger, cannot be destroyed, may cause the eater to glow for one hour at random, and whose peel can cause any enemy with legs to slip and fall down if I roll a natural twenty after throwing it at them but will backfire if a one is rolled. I shall be the first and probably only banana sorcerer.
Also, if this dream creates a banana-themed beholder, I shall dub it Bananaholder.
May I join your cult?
Gotz the Ironhand I hope you got to do that lol
Has this been realized yet?
Have you done it?
@@PeculiarVisitor Unfortunately, no. Since the guys I play D&D with have been really busy with kids, jobs, etc. Also, because our last campaign wasn't D&D, but Alien Invasion, and there weren't any beholders in that. Just more or less the creature from The Thing. We're planning a proper D&D session this month though, so fingers crossed, I guess.
Step 1: Roll up a bard.
Step 2: Advance your bard to a high level.
Step 3: Use divination magic to find a Beholder.
Step 4: Teleport to the Beholder's lair while it's sleeping.
Step 5: Have your bard use music to affect the Beholder's dreams.
Step 6: Have the Beholder dream of becoming good.
Step 7: Repeat steps 3 through 6. In the case of sleepless Death Tyrants, have mortal Beholders dream that the Death Tyrants are good.
Step 8: ????
Step 9: PROFIT
TinyFoxTom genius
Except the beholder probably already thought of that plan and has counter measures for that plan
Divination
Matheus Tran Exactly what I was thinking.
6 months late but @ step 5
Be me play that song
Proceed to roll a 1
Beholder wakes up and proceeds to kill me while my party is laughing just outside of the cave >.
I strongly desire a Beholder rancher who hires adventurers to enter a Beholders dreams in order to attempt to create designer Beholders or Beholder-kin
Make it. Put it up on DMsGuild!
this is an incredibly fun idea that every adventurer should do at least once
I am stealing this for a campaign.
Beholderception
@@brightshadow80 Same
An overseer controlling 20 hivemother who are used to control up to the maximum death tyrant... that is a mission I don't want to go on.
But that would be 100 beholders and... If you could FIND that many, *the world is doomed.* Your going to want a level twenty party.
Ágoston Szabó the undead cannot be dominated
And there army of 100,000 zombies
@@raifparker3990 beholders warp reality, dominating a death tyrant is but an easy task
@@raifparker3990 if they dream it
all beholder's are created equal, some are just more equal than others xD
50% of the time a beholder is correct 100% of the time :D
my head explote :C
Thats about as progressive as a beholder can get. They are the only one in the “more equal” category
Alpharad
Eleven eyes good, two eyes bad!
is it weird that I want a pet death kiss. It's so cute ...you know, once you get past the whole blood drinking part
let them drink enough blood to keep them and you both going, eat a lot of food and drink a lot of water to help produce more blood, wait a couple months, rinse and repeat.
It's a white Audrey II.
Jessica Shyer Feed me Seymour!
Psychotic Muffin ooor just chuck it a rat
Get it part of a troll, then.
is Mike Wazowski some kind of Beholder-kin?
Mike and Celia's love spawned the first Beholder into existence. The rest is history.
This actually makes sence since Cecilia has snakes/tentacles on her head
Bloodshark123 holy shit I think you're onto something
Bloodshark123 then what? was this love child thrown through a dimensional rift that collided with the dream realm to give it creation based dream powers?
@@dragonmanfirebane5078 Something like that, the doors were overloaded upon one use, tearing a whole across all planes of existence. The child was reduced to a disembodied consciousness, decaying through eons in the plane of nightmares, until manifesting itself in similar planes, where the divisions between nightmares and reality are blurred, and insanity reins supreme. It is unknown just how long it took but the beholder today is but a warped reflection of a realized dream of the original beholder, trapped in a prison forged from madness, the final resting place for the dimension torn child of Mike Wazowski.
overseers huh?...
are nuclear missiles considered magical damage?
ThibautVDP no but the radiations can be considered magical,but the explosion is completely natural
Red rose pretty sure it would ignore immunities tho
The overseer already thought of that plan, and has gauths protecting its lair to eat nuclear missiles.
I would consider nukes to be force damage and fire damage for initial blast, anything that dies or is destroyed is instead disintegrated (as per the spell, but without magic). Anything which survives uses a modified taint system for radiation. No magic involved, in fact the area directly around ground zero is a null-magic zone for as long as the radiation persists, having torn the very fabric of the weave.
There are not many good ways to resist force damage, especially what essentially boils down to an [Ex] source of it o_O
ThibautVDP no
one beholder is already a nightmare, but twenty!?. imagine you're a guard patrolling a city wall, the days been horribly boring and uneventful just walking up and down the wall over and over, wishing for something interesting, anything to make the day less boring. immediately after thinking that you hear the warning bells ringing across the city "finally something interesting!" you think only to look up to see twenty beholders descending over the city.... WAIT, TWENTY!!!?111 TWO FUCKING ZERO!!! "nope" you say then promptly turn around and step off the wall just giving up at that point.
Good thing that won't happen because Beholders never work together
The Overseer (mentioned at the end of the video) says otherwise.
can the Overseer move?
I believe it can but at a really slow pace.
BlameGGaming It can probably get things to move it faster.
My first thought when hearing there could be any kind of beholder is a town where golfball sized beholders congregate in swarms as just another part of the population. While true they could suddenly dream up an evil beholder the evil ones just end up being food for the more abundant neutral ones. And then I imagined a scene where everything is fine, the beholdlings are working for someone, an adventurer remarks how cute they look being all tiny, suddenly a tiny evil one pops up nearby and the beholdlings get this massive toothy grin splitting their face in half as they rush forward and swarm the evil one tearing it to bits. The adventurer takes a few steps back wide eyed as one of the many burp.
Gotta love Death Tyrants.
Human liches: I studied for YEARS to achieve immortality!
Dracoliches: *impossibly complex process that fails more often than it works*
Beholder Liches: Yeah, I just didn’t want to die, so I decided not to.
so apt
I actually convinced a DM to let me have a beholder kin eyeball as a familiar one time. WOW that was an op familiar. 360 degree sight so I couldn't be caught flat footed because of his sight. 60' flight speed. I could cast spells through him and he could cast his own spells for free. I think his AC was almost 30 or something ridiculous like that. Not to mention, the sorcerer that I was playing had draconic heritage feats. Once again my DM started creating encounters just to kill me and continued to fail.
Trust me, if DM decided to kill PC, there is no power in DnD multiverse that would stop him.
"I ask DM for OP companion"
"Says yes"
"Omg OP companion is OP"
Lol
The eye of Fire gazes down at your party.
Your halfling fiddles with the ring hanging around his neck nervously.
just me or the death kiss is actually pretty cute?
It kind reminds me of zero/02 and void from kirby so maybe?
You know I bet you could make it a pet...
You’ve gotta point
It is very cute
It is
Also kinda looks like the mf in the "no bitches?" meme imo
for everyone who thinks beholders are OP, well all I can say is, power is all in the eye of the beholder
My party has developed a... Method.
They have a Jug of Alchemy, and so their tactic: First the enemy gets covered with Alchemist's fire. Then oil. Then the party simultaneously unleashes two fireballs, a lightning strike, a blast from an Improved potion of fire breathing, and a blast from what one of my players have created that's effectively a flamethrower (just 2d6 damage, no bonuses, so its fine.)
These in total, do 36D6. I am running a level 9 party, and now they can do once per day, 36D6 DAMAGE.
I am tempted to use a beholder.
3.14 Dragon that seems like alot of set up to preform though... should be easy enough to break up...
Single eye of the beholder
Here's your cookie.
As a lvl 10 paladin/warlock/fighter, using divine smite and eldritch smite, and action surge, you could feasibly do 8d6 (4 attacks greatsword) + 12d8(5 paladin smites (cast one and use divine smite on each attack)) + 2d8 (lvl 2 eldritch smite) +4d6 (1d6 per attack if you cast hex prior to combat) and each attack does prof bonus ( hexblade's curse) and charisma modifier of dmg. Assuming charisma modifier is +5, +10 from great weapon fighting (offset the -5 to hit with +5 to hit from devotion paladin channel divinity) and +1 to hit/dmg from improved pact weapon (total +20 dmg per attack)
Total 12d6 + 14d8 + 80 dmg in one turn, without any magical items.
This is from only one character, image a party of 4 of these, 48d6 + 52d8 + 320dmg in one round.
I just thought of something. What if a Beholder learns how to lucid dream?
Does this mean the beholder becomes the dm
Well, um, yeah basically.
n o
That’s when it becomes an overseer
Beholder: Reality can be whatever I want
Can we just appreciate the fact that beholders can just "nope" out of death whenever they want?
I feel like the Deathkiss and Bloodkiss Beholders should trade names.
Love that you're doing DnD lore - is it possible you could focus on the broader things? Like setting, or the different realms/cosmology of the universe? Just so those who don't actually play the game can get a sense of where all this stuff is
Really good point! Will see about making something like that soon.
You absolutely kill this kinda stuff man. Good work! Love your passion.
I have no idea what Dungeons and Dragons is all about but I really enjoy these videos.
you should try it. its like a video game but with amazingly good graphics terrible animations and a lot of lagg. Oh and also other people
Elliott
D&D is a tabletop RPG. Yeah, a board game, with monsters and magic.
pfff...lag... we only spendt a intire day in one battle.. pff....ok...
Discord
I probably laughed a bit too hard at the "lag" part. I've been waiting like 3 years to have another session of my favorite campaign, and just when my wizard broke into the fifth-level spells! There's no methadone for this game!
same, lost touch with playing it since i moved.. also been years. i miss it alot
7:42 well I guess you could say beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Ait ima bouta head out
I have a concept: a beholder that’s gone insane after realizing there were better beholders, and always strive to make itself better, by attaching itself surgically to things, like dragons, and strives to find a tarrasque
Bro I've been a sub for 2 years now and your vids get better and better I'm proud of you man you deserve more keep the vids rolling in.
An adventurer walks up to the cave of a death kiss. Crouching, he slowly walks in . After a walk that lasts only minutes but feels like hours due to his fear of the beast, he comes to a chamber with a white orb with its eye closed surrounded by dead rodents and human skulls. The adventurer gasps at the sight of the monstrosity before him, it awakens and turns to face him, he realizes what the creature is and tries to run but the death kiss grabs him with its stalk and after a few seconds it opens the holes in its other stalks and says
"LEAVE NOW OR I SHALL KILL YOU!"
The man chuckles, then giggles, then he laughs a booming laugh.
"DON'T LAUGH AT ME, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT I AM?!"
The adventurer struggling for breath says " Your voice! its the funniest thing ive ever heard! you sound like a nasally mouse with breathing problems!"
The death kiss is enraged and embarrassed and throws the man with all its might out of his empty cold stone home. "NEVER COME BACK!' he screamed in his ironically funny voice, and closed off the entrance to his cave forever.
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓷𝓭
i really dig this new D&D series, please keep it up
Well this was very interesting i will want to look up that Eye of the Deep latter.
you know this might explain the game" Enter the Gungeon's" version of the Beholder better (named the Beholster) seeing how it is trapped in a dungeon full of guns, missiles and bullets it would make sense that it would dream of those things.
Plot twist: it created the gungeon.
How about an Overseer that controls Hive Mothers who in turn control lower beholders. It would be like the Zerg but every unit is as powerful as a Laviathan. In this way you could actually create a Beholder empire. That would be interesting in a story.
You also need to cover the Tarrasque.
Fun fact:
If you beat a beholder, it's cuz your DM wanted you to.
Death Tyrant is a beholder that became a lich through sheer will.
How very Lovecraft.
cheater21211 Lovecraft was the primary inspiration for the beings of the far realm.
cheater21211 just wait until he gets to the mind flayers!
The Beholder has always been a fascination of mine. I have several books on them, and I often find myself looking for more.
Great video! In fact, I love all of your videos - especially the TES and the DarkSouls ones!
Almost a year ago I had a very traumatizing panic attack, and ever since Your videos helped me get through those really harsh times! (Confirmed therapeutic material 10/10 :D )
So yeah! Keep up the good work!
You forgot about Mindwitnesses- beholders defeated by mind flayers and turned into a sort of signal booster for their hive mind. They’re really cool
I would really like to know more about those Overseers...
Especially about the part that they can create things at will.
Couldn't find anything about that anywhere.
If there wouldn't be just so few information about them, I think they, and this abbility, would deserve an own Video.
Great video, and also very cool to see you covering multiple franchises!
From DnD it'd be really interesting to hear your take on the Atropals (levitating fetuses of the necromancer-god IN SPAAAAACE) which are a personal favorite of mine despite very little being known/written about them. But something telles me that wouldn't stop you :)
Keep ut the good work!
Welp, I've just thought of a campaign arc involving an overseer, I'm gonna go and make my player's lives a living hell now, thanks >:)
All most wonder what a wizard or any other powerful magic users would do if it was able to capture a Death Tyrant in a medallion or other type of artifact, where that person can use the Death Tyrants full powers for his own use?
If they get creative, all most wonder if one was to think up a type of body where they can use a humanoid type of body form, making a giant type of character only to fly off the form when they like an still control that headless body separate to do things.
Wonder if a Beholder could become a type of collector of information or gangster type of set up gathering information an using it for it's own use and maybe running it's own gang, maybe being a type of wizard in away?
Extra funtimes... Beholders in Spelljammer. Fleets of warmongering Beholders under the command of a Hive Mother, unified by being identical, on an eternal galactic crusade to wipe out all the other Beholder fleets that are different in any way. They mostly consider the rest of the races to be scenery, and have another type of Beholder-kin called an Orbus (small, milky-white, blind, and with no eye powers) that functions as a living Spelljammer Helm.
Much more impressive creature than I had thought. I always thought it was a lesser monster. Thank you for the info.
holy crap in fing hell... your description of this de beholder make it come to life (lol) insanely well!!!
having this thing just gazing upon you made it really look terrifying!!! ...subscribed! ty so much for sharing!
My DM is amazing, he let me tame a beholder and I use it as a beast of burden to carry my baggage.
Your DM is **GOD**
@Kathy Kat its probably the other way around. The beholder domesticated the player so it will protect it against all threats
@Kathy Kat kind of like cats
It's about time a quality narrator decided to take on D&D lore... so much material for videos!
Hope you keep this up for years so a massive compendium is online for the hobby, good work, great quality!
Is it me...
But the CACODEMON from THE original Doom game...
And CHAOS ORB from MAGIC THE GATHERING.
Looks like Great Pretenders to the beholder?
That and the Astral Dreadnought
How about beholders who's big eye have been cut out (on purpose)
What is their deal?
They are wizard beholders, they have to renounce to it in order to study magic. Instead of having spell slots they use their tendril eyes to memorize spells, being able to use those spells at will in the form of eyeblasts, only one spell per spell level as limitation and they also have to acquire wizard levels in order to learn spells.
A high level one could attack with a Meteor Storm, a Polymorph, a Fireball, a Cone of Cold and many other spells each round.
12:44 That design strikes me as looking like what I'd imagine a combination of a Shoggoth and a Dark Young would look.
Anyone else get a very shoggoth feel from the overseers?
beholders are basicly budget decreased azathoth
I was thinking in the daughters of the Shug Nigurath, the Dark Youngs, wich they are a total nightmare
Gazer: Notice me senpai!
Skidoosh Layman k
This was a nice watch, it's great to see someone with a good voice explain DnD lore (a lot of others sound bored or depressed). Always nice to hear things explained with enthusiasm.
Perhaps in the future you could cover lore on the some of the less popular DnD races like Planetouched and Tieflings. The few videos I could find of them weren't really all that good at explaining their back stories and what they're about.
Aw, he never did the Gorbel! I know they're not in 5e but I love these little buggers.
I didn't know beholders had that whole dream thingy where they transform or make stuff/beholder-kin appear.
I'm totes looking for a video on that now
I am a fan of the Ultima games (PC). As a dungeon master, I created a Beholder-kin species called Headless, inspired by the Ultima monster and Beholder-kin. The central eye is inside their mouth, where the neck should be. The eyestalks are generally retracted but subtle and the body is humanoid but really tough. They become a different kind of monster once they kill an intelligent creature that is smarter and takes its head. I have had a major D&D campaign story about the super-tough barbarians that cooperated with goblinoids on that one and the players woke up to "WTF? They both oppose their people attacking our commissioners too?"
The Headless are Wizard experiments of Beholder flesh. They appear as headless humanoids, really strong and really violent and hard to kill (Ultima headless, no vital strikes mean a thing). However, if a kill is of someone stronger or smarter and the head is relatively intact, the Headless will take the head off the corpse and take all the abilities of the individual as well as the complete mimicry of the individual for the purpose of said headless's gain. While used by the headless, the head stolen will be preserved as if still alive and the spirit or soul will be trapped of such beholder-kin magic.
The mouth, the gaping maw, was where the headless had its "missing head." The main eye was on the tongue inside the mouth, able to explore the everything of the severed head tossed into it. They eyestalks formed the neck and shape-shifted to keep it alive and transform the Headless into an evil tough version of the decapitated victim. The Headless, as that person, was the best of the Headless and the victim in all ways... with perks. The advanced Headless can now sprout a new eyeball tipped tentacle to do one of 8 magical things at will if the eye sees it, but that leaves it open to attack and gets killed if it takes more than 10% of the damage of the host in a single round.
Damn... I'm going full nerd. Sorry.
Please oh please keep doing these, they're honestly the only good D&D lore videos on RUclips
Now I want to take an Eye of Flame to the Plane of Fire just to laugh as everything it looks at is destroyed by the heat of the plane.
I'm a little disappointed you didn't mention anything outside of 5e, the AD&D Spelljammer setting introduced whole ecosystems of beholderkin to inhabit beholder ruled planets.
i feel like roleplaying a Beholder with the behaviors and attitudes of Starscream would make for an AMAZING campaign villain xD
ever considered where the space beholder fits in (SpellJammer monster manual 2nd ed)... also look at the last monster from that book... that humanoid armoured monster with 25Strength and almost peak 25's across the board was one hell of a monster... immune to everything basically and I think could kill almost everything, but I'm getting off topic. Check out the what a death tyrant of a Space beholder would be like?!?
Welp, you've got a subber outta me for these D&D videos, cant wait to see more.
Well. Now I'm scared.
Especially of that last one
Lol you seem to imply that our Giant-Eyed Masters do not already control the world. Silly mortal.
By far the Death Tyrant is the most metal beholder sub-type I’ve seen yet.
nicely done rhexx you make my job as a DM allot easier
How to protect a town with ferocity: Summon a group of spectators and assign anyone wearing the town's symbol as allowed. as long as that measure is not known to outsiders the spectator's will hunt anyone who comes to do harm.
i always wanted to play a Beholder Bard once, whom loved to play his tunes for an audience, but always got depressed, since no one could be affected by his chanting tunes... so he always had to have his back to the audience while playing....
TheFanmixed Or just close his huge fucking middle eye.
Overseer controls 1 hive mother and the rest death tyrants, one of the hive mother's beholders is a blood kiss, one spectator, one gauth, one eye of frost and fire, and the rest other various types. Total fucking chaos.
Great Scott, I never knew about Overseers. That'd make a good eldritch horror boss.
From spelljammer
From spelljammer
Overseers look a lot like depiction of the love craft eldrich god shubnigarath. Perhaps the beholder race has some connection to the great old ones as they do seem to come from a similar, if not the same, realm as them
Death Tyrant is a lich like Beholder...
Some turn it willinglly, as they can't live forever, and weaker True Beholder have short lifespan.
Ha and now I know what I want from a Beholder! I want a NIGHTMARE.
Just got to the end.....familiar.
Love these secrets videos! Thanks for the great work,very informative and gives me a new way to look at monsters I thought I knew.
Our Bard charmed a Death Tyrant, not magically just naturally it fell in love with him because of a very high performance roll and after it was destroyed it came back and we don't know how it did it or where it is, the good news is we haven't seen it for months but who knows his Beholder groupie could return
what would happen if a beholder dreamed of being a humanoid? would it become something akin to man and beholder?
Or the overseer controls 20 hive beholders, those control 20 death tyrants, so on and so forth until endless armies of blood kiss beholders swarm around the overseer, making it practically an unstoppable god. A shiver at the thought of such a thing.
I really want to see a Spectator that has been summoned to operate a shop or something
So, basically, Beholders are the GM's way of saying "Screw you, stop derailing my campaign."
Death tyrants are more powerful than all wizards, but what about wizards of the coast?
I've been playing baldurs gate 3 and just about shat myself when I stumbled on the spectator in the under dark .
please keep making these vidz these are good and peaceful to me and this is awesome and your awesome at what you do
I have yet to delve deep into dnd lore aside from your videos so this may be a stupid question but would it be possible for a human or elf or whatnot to become a or fuse with a beholder/beholder-kin?
the overseer just gave me an insane idea for a campaign
MrRhexx love your vids, keep up the good work man
Death tyrant main eye VS terroresque healing?
Edit: or multiple death Tyrants?
6:48 Beholders have a good vision plan.
Great work on the D&D lore. Really good stuff keep it up.
What if a beholder dreamt about being a human? Would it make a human-beholder hybrid?
I imagine a bloody beholder composed of human parts
It also could create a human with sorcerer levels who has no idea of the origins of his powers.
so put a pair of earbuds in its earholes playing positive messages as to influence it when it sleeps and that it dreams of itself becoming a good beholder.
Just want to say, came here for the D&D videos and I'm pleasantly satisfied.
You could have the gm play as a beholder that is friendly to the party and in it's subconsious it creates the random enemies, terrain and encounters, without realising it, in campaigns that don't seem to belong and now have a reason why.
I really enjoy the D&D Lore videos, I hope there will be more in the future....
I think it's time to call in the beholderkin Gouger.
3:30 some of those beholder look like the Keepers Creepers monster. In fact he had a lair filled with victims and he was obsessed with eyes... The Creeper: confirmed beholder
Could a 'good' beholder exist, one that saw its purpose as the perfect being was to become a beloved king - venerated by the 'lesser' creatures that crawl the world, a favour which it returns by benevolently watching over and supplying for its subjects.
Overseer seems like a cool final boss. Might need to try that sometime.
Use a Hive Mother to dominate a dozen Overseers, who each dominate twenty of a unique type of Beholder. Then you have a full hive for an epic battle for your party to tell of if they survive🙂
Look up spelljammer beholder nations.
Well a couple notes: this video is amazing, it gets some things wrong. First of all while overseers are very strong you are wrong at 13:25 you say the the overseer has the ability to control twenty beholders. Well first of all this changes from edition to edition but overseers have only ever been able to control beholder-kin. Not true beholders. While hive mother’s can control a theoretically infinite number of beholders although it gets harder with each no beholder for various reasons. Note 2 you forgot about elder orbs. What are elder orbs? Immortal wizard beholders with access to almost any spell. Although they slowly lose eyestalks and are very slow but I mean they can summon DEATH TYRANTS with their magic (and control them). Elder orbs are also a runner for most powerful beholder.
note 3 you also forgot about some lesser known beholders such as: Directors, Observers and Gourgers
Directors are larger than average beholder-kin that have six eyestalks with about the same variety of eye rays as a normal true beholder. But directors use there tentacles to latch on to creatures and control them perfectly. Observers are about the same size as directors except this time they’re chaotic neutral and still have 6 eyestalks. They have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, they can also use their psychic abilitys to turn creatures into servants. Gourgers are ruthless carnivores that ruthlessly and indiscriminately kill all beholders the see because they are created by the phaerimm
somthing I forgot to add, but
Note 4 Noteable beholders (haha) Zanathar(s) Zanathar is a beholder(s) that created a thieves guild in Waterdeep than was killed then a new beholder took up the mantle(problobly killed the first one) and also the name this happened like 5 times until we are left with the 6th or 7th Zanathar (I think his real name is Zukuush or somthing) that we all know and love (he is also the one seen in all the campaign’s and zanathar’s Guide to evreything and etc.
2
Large Luigi
Not much is known about this beholder. What is known is that he one of the very rare beholders that are non-agresive. He runs a tavern known as the laughing beholder and is one of the most knowledgeable and enlightened beings in the multi-verse. ( I believe his tavern is in Waterdeep but I’m not sure I’ll have to do more research)
Oh, By the way there are beholder “gods” like the great mother and gzenmind but, they aren’t really worshiped by beholders that much
Oh and, this is all just from the forgotten realms setting including spell James and and ebberon would make my comments several pages long.
Found this out to day but, Large Luigi is actually from the spell jammer setting and found his way into the forgotten realms. He was originally from a beholder faction and he was on a ship but he was outcast from his faction because of slight difference he made a bar on some random rock and eventually learned a lesson in humility because of this and probably hitchhiked to the forgotten realms setting
The Death Kiss Beholder is so cute.
I want it as a pet.
Take over of 100k undead, 20 Tyrants, and a overlord....beautiful music plays just for us as we face our demise.
Ah yes, Find Blood kiss -> Contain Blood kiss -> Give it a Blood Feeder... Feeder only works if Blood kiss is stabbed... -> Blood kiss Generator cell has been created
You forgot about the Mindwitness variant. When a Beholder gets a Mind flayer tadpole in it.
You forgot in MM2 (not beholders, but they keep them as pets) lurking stranglers
2:35, cutest beholder I've ever seen 😉.
Question: Does the main eye of a Beholder, specifically Death Tyrant ones, retain its magical properties when removed or when the Beholder dies like how Medusa's gaze still works even when she's just a head?