Converting Monsters from D&D Official Video Games

[Krishnath]

Gross! Immensely cool, and appropriate, but gross!

That was what I was aiming for.

 

[Shade]

OK, now that we've got that out of the way, let's work on the ability scores.

Here's the standard beholder's scores:
Str 10, Dex 14, Con 18, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 15

I'm thinking we should increase Dex, and lower Str, and keep the mental stats about the same. Thoughts?

 

[Krishnath]

OK, now that we've got that out of the way, let's work on the ability scores.

Here's the standard beholder's scores:
Str 10, Dex 14, Con 18, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 15

I'm thinking we should increase Dex, and lower Str, and keep the mental stats about the same. Thoughts?

I agree, reduce the Str to 7 and increase the Dex to 17.

 

[Shade]

Updated. Check it out and let me know if I'm on the right track with what we've discussed so far.

Another thought: since it lacks a mouth, shall we give it telepathy so that it may communicate? If so, what range?

 

[Krishnath]

Updated. Check it out and let me know if I'm on the right track with what we've discussed so far.

Another thought: since it lacks a mouth, shall we give it telepathy so that it may communicate? If so, what range?

Looks good so far.

Telepathy: This is usually at 100' range, so I think that would suffice for this creature.

 

[Shade]

OK, telepathy is added. I also worked up the eye rays. Take a look and tell me what you think. Pay particular attention to the anti-magic ray, as it is the only truly "new" ray.

 

[Krishnath]

Looks good, you might want to add another eye ray or two that deals damage.

 

[Shade]

Looks good, you might want to add another eye ray or two that deals damage.

Any suggestions?

 

[Krishnath]

Well the logical step would be to use Scorching Ray as one, and Polar Ray as the other. Unfortunatly Polar Ray is a little to powerful for this beholder-kin, so we should probably go with a ray version of Lightning Bolt instead.

 

[Shade]

We could give it a lesser polar ray...just call it cold ray and have it do the same damage as the scorching ray. Whaddya think?

Otherwise, the lightning ray would work fine.