They are however still brilliant as beholderkin and their favorite minions are creatures that are dangerous to look at like basilisk. They are more unhinged and likely to turn on anything they deem to be a threat, having few minions that arent perfectly controllable. They tend to be more up front with their aggression and focus less on trickery and smarts. While it cannot see, it uses a form of echolocation from its central maw that grants it blindsight. These ones lack eyes entirely, with the central bodies mouth doubling in size, the body expanding roughly 25% to account for the enlarged lungs it needs, and its eye stalks being replaced by mouths. It can be born of a beholder that dreams of losing its eyes, or some other type of powerlessness. See more in D&D Beyond's Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True.The behowler is a less sane version of a beholder. Another good source to consult (from the DM's perspective, that is), can be found on Nerdarchy, " bringing Beholders to life". They're as smart as they are dangerous, as Keith Amman so ably relays in The Monsters Know What They're Doing. There is no guarantee a melee hitter will be able to close with the Eye Tyrant, unfortunately. Archers and ranged spell effect "artillery" should be poised to give it the good news as soon as it drops the field to use its various eye rays on the brawlers and meat shields. You beat a Beholder by having melee characters get in close, within its anti-magic field. If played properly by a savvy GM an Eye Tyrant will be difficult to defeat. An eye tyrant sometimes carves out a domain within or under a major city, commanding networks of agents that operate on their master’s behalf."
Rather than live in isolation to avoid other creatures, the aptly named eye tyrants to enslave those other creatures, founding and controlling vast evil empires.
Some beholders manage to channel their pervasive xenophobic tendencies into a terrible despotism. "A beholder’s central lair is typically a large, spacious cavern with high ceilings, where it can attack without fear of closing to melee range. D&D and Pathfinder Beholder TacticsĪccording to the main monster page, Now, being a nerd, I know lots of useless Beholder trivia and I burned up way too many of the few recreational hours I had available - but I had a pretty good time doing it. That started me down a deep, dark rabbit hole of abject nerdery, research, and Photoshop work.
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