I feel like Large Luigi should have been mentioned here. A beholder who literally gained all the knowledge of the universe, as they are told to do, and it made him Lawful Nuetral. With this wealth of knowledge, he settled down and founded a tavern and became an information broker for travelers.
Yeah I was sad to not see a mention of him. He showed up briefly in the spell jammer module they released. They printed almost nothing about him there other than "it's a beholder that runs a tavern on the rock of bral"
I have a wizard who was learning spells from a friendly Beholder, it was fun seeing him figure out why none of the spells he was trying to learn would cast!
lol that reminds of a wild character concept. For starters he he was a sorcerer, but he did not know that. He thinks he is a wizard and went to wizard school. He really drove his teachers mad since all the spells he wrote down where comnpletely wrong and should not work. It was just gibberish, but to their great frustration they worked anyway.
@@daftwulli6145 Kind of the opposite of what is said, "Looks good on paper, but dose not work in practice." But in this guys case, dose not look good on paper, but works in practice. Reminds me on how some teachers in school would tell me things such as, "Violence never solves anything." But when I put that to the test, I found violence not only worked in solving some of my past issues, it did so very quickly, and far better then most any other possible option. Mostly when no other option worked at all. Seeing the guy was a sorcerer, not a wizard, actually make sense in his situation. And makes the situation quite funny.
Ik at least in 3.5 there is a spell "invoke magic" that let's you burn a lvl 9 slot to cast even while having a staring contest with a beholder, it only summons enough magic for a lvl 4 spell but still
@@glenfoxhyou sound like an underdeveloped 5th grader there, tough guy. You just weren't smart enough to figure out the problem, so you threw a little girl tantrum and went the other route. It's ok, dust yourself off and grab yourself a Y chromosome on your way out.
@@glenfoxh they say violence never solves anything to promote alternative ideas lest you create or contribute to an exisiting vicious circle. it might seem like it solves things in the moment, but you couldve just created or cemented violence as an option through proof of your actions in the minds of witnesses or victims, and indirectly contributed to unnecessary violence in the future in branching ways going forward. it sucks whenever it might actually be made necessary, but when you take self protection out of the equation, it really never is
People are mentioning Big Trouble in Little China, but I haven't seen anyone bring up the gazers in the Ultima games. When killed, they release a cloud of stinging insects because they are "bee holders."
Before the 2000s, much of sci-fi and fantasy gaming was just a massive mountain of puns, references, and in-jokes lol. D&D itself shows this when you look at the material components required for spells back when that stuff actually mattered.
The boxed set "The Legend Of The Spelljammer" (an ADnD 2E product) has a beholder, Old Astor, that suffered from a disease called 'The Gray Wasting' that caused some of his eye stalks to rot off and some of his carapace scales to wither. He worked as a bartender in the main tavern (called The Open Air Public House) on the ship, and was targeted by beholder faction for being impure.
In 3.5 there is a spell "invoke magic" that let's you cast a spell up to 4th lvl, but it takes a 9th lvl slot and is only good for one use (usually, but metamagic could fix that)
I have some important infromations to share. An important thing for beholders is Vellurith: Vellurith is a game of power with a set number of precise rules that each beholder actively knows and plays. For them it is a game. Anything they do is a competition. An example is the following: In the game of Vellurith, a beholder can "win" by conquering or making a kingdom crumble. The game of Vellurith is made by the great mother herself (if i remember correctly), and it is the "lawful" part of the lawful evil alignment. Vellurith is their code and their game, and other races can theoretically partake in it too. Another important, yet unknown fact to most: Every beholder's true purpose is being literal dispensers of knowledge, a goal they can achieve by climbing a mountain in space called "The Spindle" by following a certain path only they can see. This will literally imprint in their minds any and all informations in the universe. Large Luigi, a sane beholder, is one among the few that has climbed and achieved it's goal. Result of this achievement? Other beholders ostracized him and made him go away, lest they killed him. Reason for which now you can find Large Luigi in the Rock of Bral managing his tavern (if i remember correctly), called the "Laughing Beholder".
You might be able to use a flail snail shell as a cover/binding of the main eye. Both have antimagic properties. When an unstoppable gaze meets an immovable veil
Your video about the Beholders was the first ever Dungeond and Dragons video I ever watched and got me into the hobby about seven years ago, and now here we are again, it’s always such a pleasure.
Never played D&D, TIL about beholders. I find it interesting they seek knowledge from others while maintaining a belief they are ideal and perfect; their belief structure unravels in on itself with enough thought. Their own Goddess being purely chaotic along with the Demented beholders creates a framework where interesting stories almost write themselves. Very fun monster!
"Oh man, 5e Beholder's are so scary looking." *Me having nightmares about* 20:07 : "I see why you made this Gygax. Your nightmare is OUR nightmare now..."
Ooooo I love the idea of a Red Hood from Earth 23 style beholder, who saw the truth but held on to their bent sanity only to become far more dangerous and cool
@@JeffSteffeniscool Seeing a new party would be great but they all did so well, why would you risk it? I think they anchored the movie around Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez because of name recognition and it's going to be hard getting another brand new ensemble cast together to pull off the same thing twice.
Great video. I encountered Spectaor in BG3 and got almost anihalated. And now you gave me an insight how beholder is not even a inkling of what I encountered.
I like how this video doesn't override the previous videos that were made, but recontextualizes what is known. I hope we can get more stuff like this for previous subjects, like maybe dragons overall or perhaps even dinosaurs!
Gary gygax made the monster after his gaming table complained the game was too easy, and nothing could kill then. Surprisingly; a monster that could cast 10 spells a turn, and have an anti-magic field, and can fly and have a bite attack, Was considered difficult
Gygax came up with Tomb of Horrors because his players complained/bragged that the game was too easy for them. Gygax wasn't even the one to invent the beholder, let alone invent it for this reason. Terry Kuntz came up with the idea. Amazing how people will just post any untrue nonsense and get votes for it lol.
I once DM’ed with a beholder who had the personality and speech pattern of Mojo Jojo, from the Powerpuff Girls. It was the most fun I’ve had with this creature, and the players also loved it 😂
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Great to see a new video, I have watched almost all of your older videos and I was really glad to see a new one pop up! Really good video as well!
"Knowledge must be obtained no matter the cost, and this is why I live in Beholderville." Xiamorphus decreed bluntly, "these inferior copies, will teach me what i know, and then I will destroy them all."
the thing with the beholders dreams spawning monsters makes me want a big bad whos exploits this, a powerful wizard(i suppose psychic would be more appropriate but dnds iffy with those) who has a beholder blinded and various enchanted spike implanted in it brain to both lobotomise it and control its dreams so they can spawn minions with them getting more complex and unique as they better learn how to manipulate the process, sitting lotus style atop the beholder as a mount and its plucked out main eye adorned atop the staff used to control it could even have a twist where the party finds the bbegs corpse cus turns out the initial attempt produced feral minions that turned on him, but the process traumatized the beholder so much that the beholders nightmare about it produced an aberrant clone of the wizard who continued the work
@@pedrohenrique-et3fs imagine one of your party members missing an eye, not really a big deal, it happens as an adventurer, , they got amnesia, again not that odd, till you find a lead on a similar person who you assume must be a relative only for them to freak out cus your party member is a near identical copy of them in their youth because the beholder was scared, it dreamed of a hero to save it, one of the heros who fought it and(as much as a beholder is capable of such things) earned its resepct, so it basically just made a beholderkin clone of them your partymember never had amnesia, they dont remember anything because they literally spawned in the field you found them in
This video just gave me an idea for a demented beholder that wishes to understand the other races of the world he exists in,but he doesn't understand that his experiments might cause suffering to his test subjects,so the player characters need to explain to him how physical and psychological trauma works so that he can adjust his strategy to reduce the suffering his experiments might cause...
You can use a beholders central eye against them. It's possible to win a fight against a beholder at level 3, easily. You cast 3 darkness globes equidistant in a circle around the beholder and then hide inside the globe. Being in darkness will make the beholder unable to target you with its eye rays, as darkness functions as full cover for ranged attack rolls. And if it dispels the darkness with its central eye the beams won't be able to target you in the anti-magic either. The beholder can only pick one orb and try and bite the people hiding in it every turn, while the party continuously deals damage before diving back Into darkness.
Beholder prep kit. 2-4 sealed clay pots of pitch. one given to each reasonable to high dex party member... then hurl said pitch at the main eye. it's basically flammable liquid tar.. blinds things mechanically instead of magically.
I have a Beholder acting as a librarian inside a dungeon library. I dont want it to be immediately hostile, as it is likely to just TPK the party (lvl 6)... but id like some outside input on how to play it. They just activated the library's security and "Silence" has been cast over the entire library. My plan currently is to give the party a chance to appease "The Librarian" and hopefully be allowed continued access to the library, what and how... havent got there yet... Background : The Librarian was originally a human forced into servitude by the BBEG, a mad wizard who built the dungeon to protect his treasures, including a vast library. Within this library was a book on the possible origins of beholders (which fascinated the librarian) but that night after reading it he had a terrible dream of looking in a mirror and growing eyestalks... eventually becoming a beholder in his dream, and when he awoke... he was a human no more, but the beholder of his nightmares. Seeing as beholders are big on hoarding knowledge, i figured it would be a perfect fit. The dungeon provides protection from the outside world and other beholders, and an inborn affinity for libraries, so it stuck around and made this library its lair. The Scene : The party has been perusing the library for a few hours, discovering a restricted section as well as a hidden illusion (but not the source) along with a group of researchers with questionable motives. They have triggered the "Loud noise alarm" 3 times now, triggering the library's "silence" spell. As the group takes some time to rest and figure out whats going on, they notice a large shape floating down from the rafters. a Beholder wearing reading glasses and a cloak looking down upon the party... menacingly. XD i appreciate any feedback ;)
Be it as it may that Beholders are forever hovering and immune to knockdowns or trips, my cast-iron Beholder figure is FOREVER falling over on the tabletop.
Beholders might have a super arrogant willpower in themselves. However given the far realm has creatures/environments that answer every conscious and unconscious question that goes through a persons mind with horrific consequences, an absolute belief in ones selfs (and not relying on traditional psionic magic) is the best survival strategy.
Beholder being copyright is interesting because two games come to mind that have beholder like enemies in them there’s the Gazer from Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen and the Gazer from Dragons Crown which are both very blatantly beholders with only minor design changes
Ya, I DMd in the early to late 80's. I only used it once, and regretted it. It killed the whole party. It spoke once, it didn't hesitate after the reply, it just killed everyone. A couple tried to run. When this thing personally addresses you, listen respectfully, and seriously consider obedience. Only say "yes your greatness"
I feel like you're on the way to becoming the VaatiVidya of D&D. You've come a long way, and taught me an awful lot about the setting. Thank you for sticking with it and bringing your inexhaustible enthusiasm to this hobby.
My first time playing DnD back in 3.5E, my party was TPK by a Beholder. Only I was able to get away from the Beholder but the DM(Friends Dad) didn't like that I was able to run away from the monster. So he killed my character with a Spirit Bomb from a "Super Saiyan" He also had a rule that when your character dies the character sheet get's shredded. So sadly my first ever DnD character is forever lost to time because of a Beholder.
Oof, dick dm 3.5 is the edition for f*ckery not shit dms... that's 4 My current character is having to prep to take on beholderS as a mass spellcaster, luckily I have the spell "invoke magic" accessible so I can get off some lvl 4 or lower spells even when they are staring at me, it's good my build is what it is tho or else burning lvl 9 slots to cast lvl 4 spells isn't really viable for combat, but since I'm a warlock who got an additional contract with a sentient spellbook artifact I don't have to worry about spell slots.
Ocular adept Paragon Path from D&D 4e (Dragon Magazine 394) basically let's the player emulate a beholder. Turning bows into floating eyes that you fire from. Cool as hell.
Beholders were used outside D&D in many movies such as 'Big Trouble in little China'.
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I always thought of Beholders as being rather Lovecraftian. Not that there is anything in Lovecraft that is like a beholder, but that a beholder is like a great old one when it comes to understanding them :)
what about planar entities that arent summoned? or set portals to the planes? i'd also assume that deities arent affected by the central eye? are the eyes of other beholders affected by another beholder's central eye? can a mindflayer affect either brain and possibly "fix" a beholder so that it can process contradictory info and accept it?
It's crazy how their eyes cancel all magic, but a Prismatic Wall cannot be cancelled by an anti magic field OR a beholder's eye. I had some players cast the soell around a beholder and they just walked out of the dungeon like nothing bothered them
I must admit your courage to try and synthetise the material from older editions and 5e, because they're contradiction in many places. For example, 5e gives that weird idea the beholders spawn from their kind's nightmares (Volo, but also MM I guess), while "I, Tyrant" which you show and refer in many places in the video says about egg sacs under beholder's tongue, and despite describing a lot about monster's ecology it doesn't say much about Tyrant's sleep. The other weird part is Beholder-kin's place in the whole equation. Beholder-kin and hive mothers (which didn't have eyestalks in previous editions until 3.5 I think, although I,Tyrant suggested some have, other don't) are actually a Spelljammer invention, where there are Beholder Nations in the sky. They also coined an extra-terrestial (with assumption that "terra" means any fantasy world you live in) origin of Eye Orbs. Kin also are considered "not true beholders", unlike beholder variants like a spectator (which is badly mouthed by Baldur's Gate III, this is not a generic floating spell cannon, but intelligent and generally neutral creature). I wonder if you also will refer "Lords of Madness", which also contradicted previous material but not as much as Volo did to Lords and "ecology" books of 2e.
WotC - "Can't use them in any other context outside of D&D." Me - Casually running beholders in Shadowdark and Pathfinder 😂 "Sure, thing, WotC. Sure thing."
Knowledge is power Acquisition of Knowledge is the #1 goal Other beholders want my knowledge People can gain knowledge interacting without other beholders Using others to gain knowledge is beneficial Others may survive so long as they gain new knowledge for me Step by step logic using only the beholder's logic that can allow someone to survive a beholder. Or even gain knowledge to give them more knowledge
I feel like Large Luigi should have been mentioned here. A beholder who literally gained all the knowledge of the universe, as they are told to do, and it made him Lawful Nuetral. With this wealth of knowledge, he settled down and founded a tavern and became an information broker for travelers.
Yeah I was sad to not see a mention of him. He showed up briefly in the spell jammer module they released. They printed almost nothing about him there other than "it's a beholder that runs a tavern on the rock of bral"
A beholder that could make every drink! What a bartender!
What the fuck he's real
The tavern he opened is on an asteroid orbiting the planet Toril, too
Haven't i seen this already?
Damn seven years we have come full circle
@@kustisammul8453 i was thinking the same :)
No, they were discussed on another video. No, a detailed as this one.
hmmm some how i have a dejavu
i feal old now.
He definitely did do a video on beholders and another one on the sub species. I’m down for the revamping tho
I have a wizard who was learning spells from a friendly Beholder, it was fun seeing him figure out why none of the spells he was trying to learn would cast!
lol that reminds of a wild character concept. For starters he he was a sorcerer, but he did not know that. He thinks he is a wizard and went to wizard school. He really drove his teachers mad since all the spells he wrote down where comnpletely wrong and should not work. It was just gibberish, but to their great frustration they worked anyway.
@@daftwulli6145 Kind of the opposite of what is said, "Looks good on paper, but dose not work in practice." But in this guys case, dose not look good on paper, but works in practice.
Reminds me on how some teachers in school would tell me things such as, "Violence never solves anything." But when I put that to the test, I found violence not only worked in solving some of my past issues, it did so very quickly, and far better then most any other possible option. Mostly when no other option worked at all.
Seeing the guy was a sorcerer, not a wizard, actually make sense in his situation. And makes the situation quite funny.
Ik at least in 3.5 there is a spell "invoke magic" that let's you burn a lvl 9 slot to cast even while having a staring contest with a beholder, it only summons enough magic for a lvl 4 spell but still
@@glenfoxhyou sound like an underdeveloped 5th grader there, tough guy. You just weren't smart enough to figure out the problem, so you threw a little girl tantrum and went the other route. It's ok, dust yourself off and grab yourself a Y chromosome on your way out.
@@glenfoxh they say violence never solves anything to promote alternative ideas lest you create or contribute to an exisiting vicious circle. it might seem like it solves things in the moment, but you couldve just created or cemented violence as an option through proof of your actions in the minds of witnesses or victims, and indirectly contributed to unnecessary violence in the future in branching ways going forward. it sucks whenever it might actually be made necessary, but when you take self protection out of the equation, it really never is
Don’t forget about Large Luigi. The beholder who at one point gained ultimate knowledge, then opened up a tavern.
yes, Large Luigi who knows everything is controlled by "roleplayers" playing a game
People are mentioning Big Trouble in Little China, but I haven't seen anyone bring up the gazers in the Ultima games. When killed, they release a cloud of stinging insects because they are "bee holders."
Thats friggin hilarious
🐝 👊
Before the 2000s, much of sci-fi and fantasy gaming was just a massive mountain of puns, references, and in-jokes lol. D&D itself shows this when you look at the material components required for spells back when that stuff actually mattered.
I remember those, very annoying trying to kill insects with a sword
😂
*Casts suggestion on a beholder * "Spend the day contemplating your imperfection!"
[center eye begins to melt]
Goes into a blackout frenzy as the intuitive mind must protect its logical mind.
Good way to give it a dream that night of a perfect beholder lol Now you really have problems.
beholders have forSEEn this plan.
so they keep and EYE on you!
“Good! I could use a nap.”
*dreams up a gazer, chases it off, refuses to reflect on this*
The boxed set "The Legend Of The Spelljammer" (an ADnD 2E product) has a beholder, Old Astor, that suffered from a disease called 'The Gray Wasting' that caused some of his eye stalks to rot off and some of his carapace scales to wither. He worked as a bartender in the main tavern (called The Open Air Public House) on the ship, and was targeted by beholder faction for being impure.
"There is no other word that describes them more than the word 'Iconic''
Well played.
Eye conic.
Dungeon Dad and MrRhexx both upload on the same day?!?! Oh we eatin' good tonight folks!
Smough Town uploaded too!! THE DAY OF LORE!!!
Truely blessed day
Yeah, I just wished web DM didn't break apart like a year ago and it would have been the best upload day ever.😅
I'm not sure who these other two are are they good what do they do?
@@Silvitewolf dungeon dad is an amazing DND TH-camr who updates previous edition DND monsters into 5e while explaining it's lore
the only counter to the middle eye; pocket sand!
"NOOOOOO NOT THE SAND"
Anikan Skywalker wants to know your location
Sh shaw
@@McManthony21 get em Gribble 😂
In 3.5 there is a spell "invoke magic" that let's you cast a spell up to 4th lvl, but it takes a 9th lvl slot and is only good for one use (usually, but metamagic could fix that)
Beholders are all high and mighty until an angry barbarian just starfishes themselves to their main eye so the wizard can blast freely.
Beholder? I DONT EVEN KNOW HER
"slaps knee"
Almost closed the video after reading your comment. Lmao
Nice 👍
hahaha very funny
I have some important infromations to share.
An important thing for beholders is Vellurith:
Vellurith is a game of power with a set number of precise rules that each beholder actively knows and plays.
For them it is a game. Anything they do is a competition.
An example is the following:
In the game of Vellurith, a beholder can "win" by conquering or making a kingdom crumble.
The game of Vellurith is made by the great mother herself (if i remember correctly), and it is the "lawful" part of the lawful evil alignment.
Vellurith is their code and their game, and other races can theoretically partake in it too.
Another important, yet unknown fact to most:
Every beholder's true purpose is being literal dispensers of knowledge, a goal they can achieve by climbing a mountain in space called "The Spindle" by following a certain path only they can see.
This will literally imprint in their minds any and all informations in the universe.
Large Luigi, a sane beholder, is one among the few that has climbed and achieved it's goal.
Result of this achievement? Other beholders ostracized him and made him go away, lest they killed him. Reason for which now you can find Large Luigi in the Rock of Bral managing his tavern (if i remember correctly), called the "Laughing Beholder".
You might be able to use a flail snail shell as a cover/binding of the main eye. Both have antimagic properties. When an unstoppable gaze meets an immovable veil
The main eyes antimagic field isnt itself magic, its an innate ability.
7:39 Absolutely love the Disco Elysium images used for the rational and intuitive mind
Your video about the Beholders was the first ever Dungeond and Dragons video I ever watched and got me into the hobby about seven years ago, and now here we are again, it’s always such a pleasure.
Never played D&D, TIL about beholders. I find it interesting they seek knowledge from others while maintaining a belief they are ideal and perfect; their belief structure unravels in on itself with enough thought. Their own Goddess being purely chaotic along with the Demented beholders creates a framework where interesting stories almost write themselves. Very fun monster!
This is the only channel I actually go out of my way to view as soon as possible!! MrRhexx always does an amazing job!!
I love the AJ Picket theory that Beholders and Astral Dreadnaught are the eyes and angels of the Elemental Eye, Tharazdun
They're literally all sleeper agents waiting to be activated by daddy Tharazdun, absolutely terrifying.
"Oh man, 5e Beholder's are so scary looking."
*Me having nightmares about* 20:07 :
"I see why you made this Gygax. Your nightmare is OUR nightmare now..."
“Behold the behind the scenes of the beloved Beholder!” ^.^
Ooooo I love the idea of a Red Hood from Earth 23 style beholder, who saw the truth but held on to their bent sanity only to become far more dangerous and cool
One can imagine the comedy gold mine of a Beholder deciding to learn about tastes, foods, drinks, cooking.
Eye-conic
Ok this one was good 😂
Beat me to it
Eye see what you did there.
I loved that in Curse of the Azure Bonds there was a Beholder Corps. It was very hard but once you got the hang of it you could kill them all.
Mulmaster beholder corps. Had to save and use the dust of disappearance for that fight.
I hope we get a sequel to Honor Among Thieves. I want to see them hilariously fail to kill Vecna for an hour and a half.
Honor among thieves nailed it, however wouldn’t you rather see a new party exploring the other classes?
@@JeffSteffeniscool only if they're played by the exact same cast and nobody ever mentions it
@@JeffSteffeniscool Seeing a new party would be great but they all did so well, why would you risk it?
I think they anchored the movie around Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez because of name recognition and it's going to be hard getting another brand new ensemble cast together to pull off the same thing twice.
@@HiroProtaganist sadly it was a bomb though. lost around 100 million for them...
Great video. I encountered Spectaor in BG3 and got almost anihalated. And now you gave me an insight how beholder is not even a inkling of what I encountered.
The irony that a Beholder has to go insane and demented to fit into society and function with others is delicious.
not even 5 mins in and i can tell this is a really good resource video for beginners and those new to DnD, really good work
So a beholder who thinks that he's not perfect believes that other beholders only go after perfect things?
I like how this video doesn't override the previous videos that were made, but recontextualizes what is known.
I hope we can get more stuff like this for previous subjects, like maybe dragons overall or perhaps even dinosaurs!
So glad you're taking on the lore for this! This is going to be some great videos!
Gary gygax made the monster after his gaming table complained the game was too easy, and nothing could kill then.
Surprisingly; a monster that could cast 10 spells a turn, and have an anti-magic field, and can fly and have a bite attack,
Was considered difficult
Gygax came up with Tomb of Horrors because his players complained/bragged that the game was too easy for them. Gygax wasn't even the one to invent the beholder, let alone invent it for this reason. Terry Kuntz came up with the idea. Amazing how people will just post any untrue nonsense and get votes for it lol.
Spore! 12:19
They need to have a remake ,we have the technology...
@@Silvertrif0rce bethesda modders could do it in 15 minutes lol
Man, I remember creating a beholder as well in my 16s. Such a creative game.
Using spore love that game
Ah, the monthly milk run has been completed.
Glad your channel is still around,your best in class for thiscstuff.
The Beholder is indeed eye-conic. I’ll see myself out
yo, abosultely beautiful descriptions for alignment you gave at 4:00
D&D TotK crossover playing link's class allows you to fuse a live Beholder to his Shield would be fun
I once DM’ed with a beholder who had the personality and speech pattern of Mojo Jojo, from the Powerpuff Girls. It was the most fun I’ve had with this creature, and the players also loved it 😂
Great to see a new video, I have watched almost all of your older videos and I was really glad to see a new one pop up! Really good video as well!
LOL
“I can’t beat them, they must have another me on their side”
"Knowledge must be obtained no matter the cost, and this is why I live in Beholderville." Xiamorphus decreed bluntly, "these inferior copies, will teach me what i know, and then I will destroy them all."
the thing with the beholders dreams spawning monsters makes me want a big bad whos exploits this, a powerful wizard(i suppose psychic would be more appropriate but dnds iffy with those) who has a beholder blinded and various enchanted spike implanted in it brain to both lobotomise it and control its dreams so they can spawn minions with them getting more complex and unique as they better learn how to manipulate the process, sitting lotus style atop the beholder as a mount and its plucked out main eye adorned atop the staff used to control it
could even have a twist where the party finds the bbegs corpse cus turns out the initial attempt produced feral minions that turned on him, but the process traumatized the beholder so much that the beholders nightmare about it produced an aberrant clone of the wizard who continued the work
We need a videogame with this plot as main story
@@pedrohenrique-et3fs imagine one of your party members missing an eye, not really a big deal, it happens as an adventurer, , they got amnesia, again not that odd, till you find a lead on a similar person who you assume must be a relative only for them to freak out cus your party member is a near identical copy of them in their youth
because the beholder was scared, it dreamed of a hero to save it, one of the heros who fought it and(as much as a beholder is capable of such things) earned its resepct, so it basically just made a beholderkin clone of them
your partymember never had amnesia, they dont remember anything because they literally spawned in the field you found them in
Of all the videos I've seen on beholders, I never knew the great mother existed. Great video!
This video just gave me an idea for a demented beholder that wishes to understand the other races of the world he exists in,but he doesn't understand that his experiments might cause suffering to his test subjects,so the player characters need to explain to him how physical and psychological trauma works so that he can adjust his strategy to reduce the suffering his experiments might cause...
i hope this series covers Large Luigi, the coolest and best named beholder to ever live
There is no other word that describes them more than "iconic"
Me:... I'm gonna go with Eyeball
i appreciate the update, the old beholder video was one of my favorites despite its small length
As an old SPORE player, the section at 11:56 made me really happy
Do you plan on going over Gem Dragons?
I love the citymap at 23:38 ! Looks like a beholder itself!
Thank you very much !!!!! You and AJ pickett are my sleeping aids.
Keep em coming !!!!
The beholder was first used by Hasbro in their "Transformers" movie as the beholders were the race that made the Transformers and the 'All-Spark'.
11:54 Now I'm disappointed I never encountered beholders in Spore. That's amazing.
You can use a beholders central eye against them. It's possible to win a fight against a beholder at level 3, easily. You cast 3 darkness globes equidistant in a circle around the beholder and then hide inside the globe.
Being in darkness will make the beholder unable to target you with its eye rays, as darkness functions as full cover for ranged attack rolls. And if it dispels the darkness with its central eye the beams won't be able to target you in the anti-magic either.
The beholder can only pick one orb and try and bite the people hiding in it every turn, while the party continuously deals damage before diving back Into darkness.
I love beholders. They are just so weird, so different to every other kind of monster
Beholder prep kit.
2-4 sealed clay pots of pitch.
one given to each reasonable to high dex party member... then hurl said pitch at the main eye.
it's basically flammable liquid tar.. blinds things mechanically instead of magically.
I have a Beholder acting as a librarian inside a dungeon library. I dont want it to be immediately hostile, as it is likely to just TPK the party (lvl 6)... but id like some outside input on how to play it. They just activated the library's security and "Silence" has been cast over the entire library. My plan currently is to give the party a chance to appease "The Librarian" and hopefully be allowed continued access to the library, what and how... havent got there yet...
Background : The Librarian was originally a human forced into servitude by the BBEG, a mad wizard who built the dungeon to protect his treasures, including a vast library. Within this library was a book on the possible origins of beholders (which fascinated the librarian) but that night after reading it he had a terrible dream of looking in a mirror and growing eyestalks... eventually becoming a beholder in his dream, and when he awoke... he was a human no more, but the beholder of his nightmares.
Seeing as beholders are big on hoarding knowledge, i figured it would be a perfect fit. The dungeon provides protection from the outside world and other beholders, and an inborn affinity for libraries, so it stuck around and made this library its lair.
The Scene : The party has been perusing the library for a few hours, discovering a restricted section as well as a hidden illusion (but not the source) along with a group of researchers with questionable motives. They have triggered the "Loud noise alarm" 3 times now, triggering the library's "silence" spell. As the group takes some time to rest and figure out whats going on, they notice a large shape floating down from the rafters. a Beholder wearing reading glasses and a cloak looking down upon the party... menacingly. XD
i appreciate any feedback ;)
That's really cool man
I love how the art of "Pact of Negation" was used when talking about antimagic
Be it as it may that Beholders are forever hovering and immune to knockdowns or trips, my cast-iron Beholder figure is FOREVER falling over on the tabletop.
Beholders might have a super arrogant willpower in themselves. However given the far realm has creatures/environments that answer every conscious and unconscious question that goes through a persons mind with horrific consequences, an absolute belief in ones selfs (and not relying on traditional psionic magic) is the best survival strategy.
Love the idea of Mr Rhexx making a dozen different beholders in Spore for b-roll 👏🏽👏🏽
A new MrRhexx video is truly something to behold. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for the next one. 👁 (?
I love how someone made the beholders in spore and they made it into the video
I love that you used Spore for demonmstration
This is a Cacodemon from Doom
So freakin cool, thanks
LOL the depiction of the false beholders is EXCELLENT.
Your video made me remember about a 1980s D&D colouring book, featuring Saint Cuthbert and a Beholder
Please make What they don't tell you about Eladrin!
Do a video on What they don't tell you about Gnomes in DnD. Gnomes are my favorite race in DnD & Baldur's Gate 3.
They don't exist.
@@gustaafargoan citation typiquement gnome.
Drastically underrated race, one of the only non-elf races that can learn high magic (with permission ofc)
Daddy is back, did you bring milk?
No but I have Cigarette
what 😐
@OswaldStretchdisaz he feels like he is abandoned by his father, hence the other commenter said cigarettes
@@DysmasOfBabylon yeah i get what the joke is, it's just a bad sign for a fandom when the people in it call the content creator shit like "dad"
@OswaldStretchdisaz oh dude no doubt people are debached. It's the devil working, they should be talking about God the Father.
Can't wait to learn more info about Seaholders, as I'm planning to run one as a villian in my pirate campaign
Beholder being copyright is interesting because two games come to mind that have beholder like enemies in them there’s the Gazer from Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen and the Gazer from Dragons Crown which are both very blatantly beholders with only minor design changes
Can't wait for part two!
welcome back!! :D my favorite dnd lore channel ^_^
Ya, I DMd in the early to late 80's.
I only used it once, and regretted it. It killed the whole party. It spoke once, it didn't hesitate after the reply, it just killed everyone. A couple tried to run.
When this thing personally addresses you, listen respectfully, and seriously consider obedience.
Only say "yes your greatness"
EXCELLENT Dico Elysium reference.
I feel like you're on the way to becoming the VaatiVidya of D&D. You've come a long way, and taught me an awful lot about the setting. Thank you for sticking with it and bringing your inexhaustible enthusiasm to this hobby.
My first time playing DnD back in 3.5E, my party was TPK by a Beholder. Only I was able to get away from the Beholder but the DM(Friends Dad) didn't like that I was able to run away from the monster. So he killed my character with a Spirit Bomb from a "Super Saiyan" He also had a rule that when your character dies the character sheet get's shredded. So sadly my first ever DnD character is forever lost to time because of a Beholder.
Oof, dick dm
3.5 is the edition for f*ckery not shit dms... that's 4
My current character is having to prep to take on beholderS as a mass spellcaster, luckily I have the spell "invoke magic" accessible so I can get off some lvl 4 or lower spells even when they are staring at me, it's good my build is what it is tho or else burning lvl 9 slots to cast lvl 4 spells isn't really viable for combat, but since I'm a warlock who got an additional contract with a sentient spellbook artifact I don't have to worry about spell slots.
11:56 Sweet God of mercy... what in the actual hell is THAT!?
Ocular adept Paragon Path from D&D 4e (Dragon Magazine 394) basically let's the player emulate a beholder. Turning bows into floating eyes that you fire from. Cool as hell.
Objection. There is a beholder in "Big trouble in little China".
I wonder if he will mention some well known Beholders in the lore that are for all purposes beyond 'demented', like large Luigi, for example.
Beholders were used outside D&D in many movies such as 'Big Trouble in little China'.
I always thought of Beholders as being rather Lovecraftian. Not that there is anything in Lovecraft that is like a beholder, but that a beholder is like a great old one when it comes to understanding them :)
This is an awesome series. I can't wait for the next one!
9:36 the art here is super cool
More Beholder details? Oh hells yeah!!!
Me studying up on even more Beholder lore to evenutally alow my players to play as them through MrRexx's own hombrew Eye Tryant class. x)
what about planar entities that arent summoned? or set portals to the planes? i'd also assume that deities arent affected by the central eye? are the eyes of other beholders affected by another beholder's central eye? can a mindflayer affect either brain and possibly "fix" a beholder so that it can process contradictory info and accept it?
It's crazy how their eyes cancel all magic, but a Prismatic Wall cannot be cancelled by an anti magic field OR a beholder's eye. I had some players cast the soell around a beholder and they just walked out of the dungeon like nothing bothered them
Love these videos. Look forward to them every time. such a wonderful job is done and soothing storing telling. thank you very much.
Beholders are truly eyeconic 😊
Reuploaded due to copyright issues?
Think it is a new longer video.
"You can not counter the beholders middle eye."
I CAST JAR OF SAND, PEPPER, AND GLASS SHARDS!
I must admit your courage to try and synthetise the material from older editions and 5e, because they're contradiction in many places. For example, 5e gives that weird idea the beholders spawn from their kind's nightmares (Volo, but also MM I guess), while "I, Tyrant" which you show and refer in many places in the video says about egg sacs under beholder's tongue, and despite describing a lot about monster's ecology it doesn't say much about Tyrant's sleep.
The other weird part is Beholder-kin's place in the whole equation. Beholder-kin and hive mothers (which didn't have eyestalks in previous editions until 3.5 I think, although I,Tyrant suggested some have, other don't) are actually a Spelljammer invention, where there are Beholder Nations in the sky. They also coined an extra-terrestial (with assumption that "terra" means any fantasy world you live in) origin of Eye Orbs. Kin also are considered "not true beholders", unlike beholder variants like a spectator (which is badly mouthed by Baldur's Gate III, this is not a generic floating spell cannon, but intelligent and generally neutral creature).
I wonder if you also will refer "Lords of Madness", which also contradicted previous material but not as much as Volo did to Lords and "ecology" books of 2e.
WotC - "Can't use them in any other context outside of D&D."
Me - Casually running beholders in Shadowdark and Pathfinder 😂 "Sure, thing, WotC. Sure thing."
Imagine giving a beholder pink-eye.
Knowledge is power
Acquisition of Knowledge is the #1 goal
Other beholders want my knowledge
People can gain knowledge interacting without other beholders
Using others to gain knowledge is beneficial
Others may survive so long as they gain new knowledge for me
Step by step logic using only the beholder's logic that can allow someone to survive a beholder. Or even gain knowledge to give them more knowledge