This creature is all head, vaguely spherical with a slavering set ofįanged jaws. The DR is inspired by the DR/byshek that 3.5 Eberron gave to a lot of the more fragile aberrations.] I did borrow from some other editions’ beholders as well. And the mechanics for eye rays as immediate actions and the limits on how many it can fire without busting out a protractor make it both manageable and memorable at the table. Fortunately, I quite like the 5e conceit that beholders are literally dreamed into reality. Making them a colonial species with a “hive mother” made them feel less special to me. Partially because I didn’t like a lot of the lore that accumulated onto the beholder over the years. Partially to avoid overlap with which covered the beholder and most of the other classic D&D monsters years ago. I’ve resisted doing a beholder for years. There’s only one real “Monster Manual” of creatures from cover to cover, and the newest announced monster book appears to be entirely a revision of stat blocks from previous sources! That said, the monsters it does have tend to be thoughtful, interesting takes on D&D classics, and there are some cool original monsters scattered throughout (albeit less than one might expect from a ten year old version of D&D…)įor example, the beholder. Namely, it’s the edition of the game with the fewest monsters in it. [Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition has something of a monster problem. “Hive of the Eye Tyrant” © Wizards of the Coast, by Tony DiTerlizzi.
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