Agglomérante
First Post
Your gut reaction please, followed by any rationale.
Yes or no?
Yes or no?
D&D 5E Do Beholders need sleep?
I would say the beholder can sleep, yes. Imagine them just floating there with all their eyes closed. They would probably sleep after eating an adventurer.
pukunui
Legend
The 5e MM is pretty good about stating when monsters don't need sleep. It doesn't say beholders don't (whereas it does say that the undead death tyrant does not), so I think it's safe to assume they do. As [MENTION=6731904]SirAntoine[/MENTION] says, it's easy enough to picture them hovering in the air with their eyes all closed. Or maybe, as [MENTION=57914]GameOgre[/MENTION] says, they sleep with one eye open.
I'd say they need to rejuvenate or revitalize themselves from time to time.
What form that takes...I wouldn't know. Maybe after they mate or spawn?
Perhaps they indulge in a reverie like elves, but one filled with the beholder's favorite moments of inflicting terror, madness and mayhem on other, lesser beings.
I think it would be awesome to put a group of adventurers in the middle of a hive of beholders, all dreaming mad dreams, making scary noises and drooling in somnolent glee.
What form that takes...I wouldn't know. Maybe after they mate or spawn?
Perhaps they indulge in a reverie like elves, but one filled with the beholder's favorite moments of inflicting terror, madness and mayhem on other, lesser beings.
I think it would be awesome to put a group of adventurers in the middle of a hive of beholders, all dreaming mad dreams, making scary noises and drooling in somnolent glee.
Gut reaction: Yes, because most living things do.
Also, the Monster Manual specifically states on page 26 that beholders sleep. They close the central eye but leave the little eyes open.
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