4/4/2023 0 Comments Beholder dnd![]() The origin of the Beholders, it's one of those things where maybe it's a case where no one wants to take credit for it, because there's no credit there's only blame. But yeah, that's kind of how I think of Beholders. ![]() That Beholders are all incredibly individualistic. So I find that really interesting as a creature and as an enemy, and then the eccentricity that plays out in a specific character like Xanathar and his approach to running this crime organization, things like that. They're almost like a bug in the system, creating new things out of whole cloth and trying to absolutely decode what actually makes reality function. they weren't meant to be part of this reality as far as the order of Dungeons & Dragons goes and the cosmic order of it, of the outer planes and the inner planes and material plane. Or at least there's a potential for dangers out there, because they've figured out there's this chance that this thing could happen.Īnd so in some ways, when you think of them cosmically, there's a lot of interesting potential things there. They wanna understand everything, and then be ready for it, because often they're afraid of it. They wanna understand the connections, and then they have this sort of unfettered ability to shape reality. I know what's going on." They wanna understand how things work. They think, "I am the center of the universe." If they were to meet a god, they'd think, "I've figured this out. And so you have these creatures that are, in some ways, these very small-scale tactical demigods with incredible power, but not power so overwhelming that adventurers can't defeat them. Presumably that god had a role in creating natural order. Which is a lot like the role the gods play in D&D. that's how powerful their ability to behold reality is. Who can say, right? Most people would think that's insane, but who knows? Beholders dream entire. ![]() Maybe there's some grand, massive Beholder somewhere that's like, dreaming is what is keeping together the entire firmament of the cosmos. Each Beholder thinks it's dreaming the world. did the original Beholder, was there a god that created them? They don't really have deities. ![]() They're creatures that dream themselves into existence, and in some ways that's why I think the name "Beholders," something that beholds, that looks upon the world. We often think of genius of coming with a lot of eccentricity, and Beholders have that in spades. They're thinking creatures, and they're smarter than humans. That's fine, but it's not like, wow, right? And I think this idea that they're intelligent. It's interesting, you look back at the first edition Monster Manual and you're like, "Why did this monster become so iconic and this other one no one talks about anymore?" But usually the answer is because while this one was like creepy and weird and powerful, and that's what made it memorable, as opposed to like, this one is a rhinoceros the size of a house. It came back to back in the 70s, this idea, this sphere with this one big eye and these tentacles with other eyes. They're incredibly powerful and they're incredibly bizarre looking. Mike Mearls: Beholders are incredibly powerful, right? All those different eye beams, the central eye. And also, no one in the D&D multiverse wants to take credit for this seemingly terrible mistake. Todd Kenreck: Beholders are one of the most iconic monsters in D&D. ![]()
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