D&D 5E One of my players married a beholder, help!?

[Shadowcortax]

I...don't even know... I mean where ya even put it..

Does your Beholder daughter have a strange love/fascination with fish???

Why do you ask?

 

[aco175]

I can see a bunch of wife jokes about "keeping an eye on me", or "I feel like I'm always being watched" jokes.

To make this a PC race instead of just a monster NPC you need to limit it a bunch from the beholder stats. No anti-magic rays or disintegrate. Look at how things balance vs the other races. Darkvision is a bit powerful by itself and if you want to make something like all-around vision or cannot be surprised/flanked then you need to eliminate other powers. Most of the other powers relate to spells. I could see one cantrip-type spell being able to be cast unless you want to look at no bonus ASIs or skills.

 

[Fanaelialae]

To make this a PC race instead of just a monster NPC you need to limit it a bunch from the beholder stats. No anti-magic rays or disintegrate. Look at how things balance vs the other races. Darkvision is a bit powerful by itself and if you want to make something like all-around vision or cannot be surprised/flanked then you need to eliminate other powers. Most of the other powers relate to spells. I could see one cantrip-type spell being able to be cast unless you want to look at no bonus ASIs or skills.

Alternately, design a class to go along with the new race that gradually grants those abilities. For example, maybe at low levels the anti magic eye just grants those within the cone a bonus to saving throws vs magic. Instead of a telekinesis, maybe have it do mage hand at low levels. Granted, this will be a significant amount of effort, so you probably don't want to go that route unless you have a PC who wants to play it.

 

[Shadowcortax]

How did this happen? Did the character convince the Beholder that their life together would be wonderful, so it dreamed up a perfect nuclear family and a little beholder child popped into existence? Because that's hilarious.

The PC is a Druid of the Circle of Dreams, so after wooing the Beholder the periodically entered into the Beholder's dreams and that kinda started the Beholder fantasizing about their daughter.

 

[Shadowcortax]

Need more of a direction. Is this going to be a PC? NPC henchman going on adventures? NPC characters just interact with? Monster? What's the general power level of your game? Your request is absent some important info.

Mostly NPC for characters to interact with and go on adventures with, maybe monster. Party is: a level 12 bard, a level 13 paladin, a level 13 bard/warlock, a level 14 fighter, a level 15 barbarian/fighter, and the level 16 (almost 17) druid (the father of the daughter in question)

 

[aco175]

You could go with what @Fanaelialae said about creating the race as a class. This is hard to do unless you multi-class and have monster levels that go to 10 before all the powers are shown and have a class option as well for the player to choose. The PC would end up being X fighter/ Y beholder or such.

Honestly though, this would be a lot easier if you keep it a NPC and use the monster stats, especially since the rest of the part is higher in level.

 

[GlassJaw]

You could also just say no because it's not possible.

Does a conversation about whether a beholder can conceive with a humanoid race really need to happen?

 

[pogre]

You could also just say no because it's not possible.

Does a conversation about whether a beholder can conceive with a humanoid race really need to happen?

Sure, but I think it is clear the OP has embraced the WAHOO school of D&D. Which is cool.

The thing I would want to know is how are you going to kitbash the miniature?

 

[Weiley31]

I would say UA Sidekick rules with a little bit of Beholder abilities added on/modified.

So some of the abilities could be treated as SLA that comes online at certain levels. Disintegration Beam should probably be reserved for lvl 18/19/20 though and should probably recharge at the dawn of each day. She maybe part Beholder, but she doesn't have the ability to dish out the crazy stronger abilities constantly. Although a potential character arc could entail the ability to grow in power in that regards.

Each eye stalk could hold a cantrip and follow the Eldritch Knight's level of spell progression.

 

[Chaosmancer]

I am reminded of Gazi the Omniscient from the Wandering Inn.

Humanoid, single central eye that's antimagic or something special, and four stalked eyes that each can look in independent directions. Named-level adventurer, Scout specialist but really able to take on just about anything.

Does it need to be balanced for PC use?

Assuming so, core features are:
Antimagic eye: 1x/short rest, can project an antimagic cone from her central eye (as the beholder feature), with a length equal to Proficiency Bonus x 5' (starting at 10 and ending up at 30'). The antimagic cone lasts for 1 round per point of Constitution modifier.
Advantage on Perception checks involving sight, and on saves against effects that cause a Blinding effetc. (eyestalks)
Disadvantage on saves vs. gaze attacks (eyestalks)
Human heritage: May take a +1 to 3 separate ability scores at character creation (beholders have no major stat buffs, so went with human)
Darkvision 120' (as beholder)
Aberration-blooded: Counts as both humanoid and aberration for the purposes of spells, effects, items, and class abilities. (mostly fluff?)

ROFLOL I was literally thinking of the same character and wondering if someone did DnD stats for her.

One resource I will mention, is that Volo's offers alternative eye rays. I typically prefer "Mirage Arcane" instead of antimagic fields, because it is more fun and less annoying to work with. But, if any of the traditional eye rays seem too much, you can always go there to look at alternatives.

I would say UA Sidekick rules with a little bit of Beholder abilities added on/modified.

So some of the abilities could be treated as SLA that comes online at certain levels. Disintegration Beam should probably be reserved for lvl 18/19/20 though and should probably recharge at the dawn of each day. She maybe part Beholder, but she doesn't have the ability to dish out the crazy stronger abilities constantly. Although a potential character arc could entail the ability to grow in power in that regards.

Each eye stalk could hold a cantrip and follow the Eldritch Knight's level of spell progression.

This seems like it is a really solid plan. The Sidekick rules are kind of perfect for this sort of thing.