The optometrist was relatively tall for a human woman, with long, dark hair and features of Chinese ancestry. People say, no, where are you really from? Sorry.” You’d think I know better, I’ve been asked enough times. “I asked where you were from?” The optometrist laughed lightly. “And what about now, one or two? One, or two?” The idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that - All There in the (Monster) Manual.
#BEHOLDER LAIR MANUAL#
My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with When fighting inside its lair, a beholder can invoke the ambient magic to take lair actions.For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. How much XP does a beholder have in its lair?Ī beholder encountered in its lair has a challenge rating of 14 (11,500 XP). The area works against the beholder’s own eye rays. At the start of each of its turns, the beholder decides which way the cone faces and whether the cone is active. The beholder’s central eye creates an area of antimagic, as in the antimagic field spell, in a 150-foot cone. When fighting inside its lair, a beholder can invoke the ambient magic to take lair actions.īEHOLDER 5e stats – the eye of the beholder… Antimagic Cone. A beholder encountered in its lair has a challenge rating of 14 (11,500 XP). What does a beholder lair look like in DND?Ī beholder’s central lair is typically a large, spacious cavern with high ceilings, where it can attack without fear of closing to melee range. Among adventurers, beholders are known as deadly adversaries. 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.
They are not spells and cannot be countered or turned as spells. The beholder shoots three of the following magical eye rays at random (reroll duplicates), choosing one to three targets it can see within 120 feet of it: If a target is in melee range, it’s clearly also within 120 feet.Ī beholder’s eye beams are magical effects and cancelled out by things like anti-magic zones such as the beholder’s own main eye.
And a beholder encounter almost always happens in its lair.Ĭan a beholder be blinded? Are beholder eye rays visible? At melee range, it has a bite attack, but the beholder’s trump card is its Eye Rays, which emanate from the many smaller eyes at the end of stalks extending from its body. It has an innate ability to hover, so it can never be knocked prone. In practice, though, only a few survive their first decade, since beholders spend their early years exploring and seeking a proper lair… Basically, the DM needs to decide what makes sense in their world, and stick to that. Theoretically, a beholder can live for more than a hundred years. Its central eye emits a broad field of energy that can nullify the magic of its foes, while its eye stalks blast those foes with a host of powerful effects. What do beholder eyes do?Ī beholder channels extraordinary levels of magical power. Atop it are ten eye stalks, while in the center of the spherical body is a great eleventh eye. Original Edition Beholder (Supplement 1: Greyhawk) The body of these creatures is a great globe of about 3′ in diameter. Regardless of functioning abilities, the beholder is also blinded. Can you blind a beholder?Ī beholder that is blind suffers from the blinded condition, and any abilities that require sight would not function. According to my favorite 5e encounter difficulty calculator, the party could realistically handle the standard beholder at 10th level. What level should I be to fight the beholder?Ī standard beholder is a CR 13 monster in 5e. How many hit points does a beholder have?Ī beholder in its lair has a challenge rating of 14, an adult red dragon has a challenge rating of 17, so the official answer is the dragon is more dangerous. Through ritual destruction of its central eye, a beholder can learn to channel and use magic much more quickly and efficiently than can almost any other race.
They are smaller in size usually around 6 to 7 feet in diameter.
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