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Beholder Overview 

  

A Beholder is an aberration comprising a floating spheroid body with a large fanged mouth and single eye on the front and many flexible eyestalks on the top.

A beholder's eyes each possess a different magical ability; the main eye projects an anti-magical cone, and the other eyes have different spell-like abilities (disintegrate objects, transmute flesh to stone, cause sleep, slow the motion of objects or beings, charm animals, charm humans, cause death, induce fear, levitate objects, and inflict serious wounds).

Many variant beholder species exist, such as "observers", "spectators", "eyes of the deep", "elder orbs", "hive mothers", and "death tyrants". In addition, some rare beholders can use their eyes for non-standard spell-like abilities; these mutant beholders are often killed or exiled by their peers.

List of Beholders

7 Beholders

Monster	Size	Type	Tags	Alignment	HP	CR	Habitat	Marked	Source
Beholder Overview		Overview	Aberration, Beholder				Underdark, Underground	Noncanon	Varied
Beholder	Large	Aberration	Beholder	Lawful Evil	180	13	Underdark, Underground	Canon, Pointer	Monster Manual (5e)
Death Tyrant	Large	Undead	Beholder	Lawful Evil	187	14	Underdark, Underground	Canon, Pointer	Monster Manual (5e)
Eyedrake	Large	Aberration	Beholder	Lawful Evil	119	8	Underdark, Underground	Canon, Pointer	Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Mindwitness	Large	Aberration	Beholder	Lawful Evil	75	5	Underdark, Underground	Canon, Pointer	Volo's Guide to Monsters
Spectator	Medium	Aberration	Beholder	Lawful Neutral	39	3	Underdark, Underground	Canon, Pointer	Monster Manual (5e)
Beholder Zombie	Large	Undead	Zombie, Beholder	Neutral Evil	93	5	Underdark, Underground	Canon, Pointer	Monster Manual (5e)

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Beholder (Sort Text: Beholder Common 5e, Size: Large, Type: Aberration, Subtypes: Beholder, Alignment: Lawful Evil, HP: 180, CR: 13, Features: Antimagic Cone • Bite • Eyestalks, Legendary: Yes, Has Lair: No, NPC: No, Canon: Yes, Pointer: Yes, UA: No, User: No, Sources: Monster Manual (5e))