Editing Beholder (section)

===2nd & 3rd Edition===
====True Beholders====
* '''Beholder''': Your basic beholder.  A central eye that projects an anti-magic cone and ten smaller eyes that each fire a different ray, such as charm person, disintegrate, and flesh to stone.
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Beholder Greyhawk.png|The beholder's first appearance on the [[Greyhawk]] supplement cover.
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Dungeonmasters companion.png|DM's Companion: Book 2
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I Tyrant MA cover.jpg|''I, Tyrant'' cover
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MM 5e cover.jpg|5e [[Monster Manual]] cover
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* '''[[Elder Orb]]''': A larger beholder with a much longer than normal lifespan.  Always has at least 6 levels of sorcerer.
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* '''Hive Mother/[[Hive Tyrant]]''': The highest ranked of all beholders and beholderkin.  Basically a bigger meaner beholder that holds beholders and beholderkin under its sway.  It has the ability to control other beholders and beholderkin, and has the ability spawn new kinds of beholderkin specialized for different tasks.  Beholder hives are almost always ruled by a Hive Mother, which keeps the different kinds of beholders and kin from killing each other, and when Hive Mothers belonging to the same breed come together, they can form beholder cities.  In 2nd edition, Hive Mothers have their smaller eyes set in a ring around their head instead of being on the ends of stalks, making them less maneuverable but also less vulnerable to being cut off, while in 3rd edition they are just extra large beholders.
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====Beholderkin====
* '''Gauth''': Basically, babby's first beholder, with only 6 eyestalks of doom and a reduced ability to disintegrate everyone and eats magic.  Looks like a smaller beholder with a ring of useless extra eyes around the central eye and four of its ten stalks don't have eyes on the end.
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* '''Eyeball''': Tiny beholder, best used as a familiar. Pretty damn adorable for a beholder, still Neutral Evil.  They have four eye stalks with ray of frost, cause fear, daze, and mage hand and can only use one of them at a time.  The central eye doesn't do anything.
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* '''Death Kiss''': instead of dispensing death-beams from its eyestalks, they use them to suck your blood.  Their only eye has no powers, but they release electric shocks when they are injured. Introduced in Dragon #59 as the Bleeder.
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* '''Astereater''': giant space-faring asteroid beholderkin with no eyestalks that eats your ship.  For some reason it likes to enslave [[Giff]] to use as soldiers. [[Spelljammer]] was weird.  Beholders and other beholderkin insist that they have no relation to them.
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* '''Examiner''': Four eyestalks, four limbs, and no central eye.  Their limbs let them use tools and weapons, and they can create magic items.  They also regenerate 1 hit point every round.
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* '''Observer''': A powerful psionic beholder with a hard shell, six eye-stalks, three large eyes spaced evenly around its middle, and three mouths on the ends of long retractable stalks that suck blood similar to a death kiss.  It uses its psionic abilities to brainwash other monsters into its loyal servants.  Less evil than other beholders.
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* '''Lensman''': Beholder infantry.  The lowest of all beholderkin, or at least until the Eyeball was introduced.  Imagine a starfish, then add a giant eye and mouth in the middle of its body, then replace four of its five arms with the arms and legs of an ape.  The eye may have one of six different powers.  They do not levitate but their limbs allow them to use weapons and tools.
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* '''Watcher''': the second lowest of beholderkin.  Has three normal eyes around its body and a large compound eye on the top surrounded by six eyespots, and a single tentacle on the bottom which can inflict electric shocks.  Its three regular eyes each have two different powers, and the compound eye can use three of those powers.  Can cast the message and tongues spells.  They are cowardly and mainly act as scouts for their more powerful cousins.
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* '''Spectator''': true neutral beholderkin. It's actually pretty swell, as far as beholders go. Remember that one beholder in Baldur's Gate?  They can be summoned with a ritual using four beholder's eyestalks.  They make excellent guards since they are content to spend very long periods of time in deep contemplation and don't need to be fed since they can magically create their own food.  Has only four eye-stalks and the central eye reflects magic instead.
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* '''Overseer''': a beholderkin that looks like a giant fleshy tree trunk with thirteen eyestalk branches, tentacles for roots, no central eye, and several mouths at the base. Yes, we realize that it looks nothing like a beholder, but the book says it is so fuck it, let's call it a beholder.  Like the hive mother, it also has the ability to dominate other beholders and beholderkin.  In large beholder cities, the Hive Mother dominates the Overseers, who then dominated other beholders and kin for her, thus greatly increasing the number of a beholders a Hive Mother can control at one time.
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* '''Eye of the Deep''': it's like a beholder BUT UNDERWATER! And it tastes oddly of shrimp. Also, it's got little arms with crab-pincers.  Only has two eye stalks and the central eye can flash blinding light.  Also can cast the spell persistent image, which it uses to create [[Trap|illusions of mermaids]] and other things to lure victims closer.  Rarely interacts with other kinds of beholders due to them living in different environments.
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* '''Director''': beholder cavalry.  A beholderkin with  six eyestalks and three tentacles on the bottom that it uses to bond with and ride vermin, usually giant centipedes. Because haven't we all wanted to ride a giant centipede like a pony up and down the streets... SHUT UP, I DON'T JUDGE YOU!  Has six eye stalks and its central eye generates a protective forcefield around itself and its mount.
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* '''Gouger''': A beholderkin created to fight beholders.  In the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting, they were created by [[Phaerimm]]s.  Larger than regular beholders and has four small useless legs hanging off of its body.  It has the same number of eyes as a standard beholder but does not have any eye powers other than the central antimagic eye.  It attacks with a 15 foot long barbed tongue which it uses to disable other beholder's eyes.
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* '''[[Gorbel]]''': Six eye stalks without any eye powers, no central eye, rubbery flesh that causes blunt weapons to harmlessly bounce off, and a pair of claws.  They are stupid and try to eat anything that moves.  Its claws are so strong that once it has grabbed a creature it is impossible to shake off until it is dead and its body is filled with gas that explodes on contact with air so do your best to kill them before they grab you or figure out a way to kill it without rupturing it.
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* '''Orbus''': An albino dwarf beholder with no eyes other than the anti-magic central eye but is a powerful spellcaster.  They are only seen in the [[Spelljammer]] setting on beholder ships, which they are bred to power and navigate.

====Other====
* '''[[Beholder mage]]''': when the DM wants the entire party to die horrible deaths but doesn't feel like using rocks.  This is a special character class that only true beholders can take, which requires them to remove their anti-magic eye, and whenever they gain a the ability to cast a new level of spells must sacrifice one of their eye powers to turn that eyestalk into a spellstalk which casts spells of that level.  At level 10, it's empty eye socket can absorb spells to heal it.  All the cheese of a wizard with more spells per day, the ability to blast 10 spells at once at you as free actions, and fucking spontaneous casting.  Even munchkins shit their pants in fear when they hear of these things. One of the unholy trinity of fuck off broken PCs that you can technically enter, the others being tainted scholars and Illithid Savants. And that's before you start optimizing the bastard because the fucker can still take ten more levels before becoming epic.
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* '''[[Beholder Priestess]]''': Sometimes when a beholder city is endangered the Hive Mother will called for help from The Great Mother and will be temporarily granted abilities similar to a cleric.  On rare occasions this can also happen to a standard beholder, which will cause it to mutate into a Hive Mother.
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* '''[[Doomsphere]]''': The ghost of a beholder killed by a magical explosion that haunts the area where it died.  If doomsphere is defeated it will respawn in one day unless the area is exorcised.
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* '''[[Death Tyrant]]''': Basically, a Beholder lich. Yeah, you're probably fucked.
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* '''[[Kasharin]]''': A death tyrant beholder that also carries a rotting disease similar to mummy rot.
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* '''[[Evil Eyes]]''': A beholder that possesses non-standard eye powers and so is especially hated by other beholders.
* '''[[Mindwitness]]''': Debuted in the 3.5e ''Underdark'' sourcebook. A beholder ceremorphed by an [[illithid]] tadpole. If you kill off the rest of the Illithid colony it will actually seek out the nearest telepathic entity to serve and gradually change it's alignment to match their own.
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