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

[FarBeyondC]

So through a series of events one of my players (circle of dreams druid) ended up wooing and marrying a beholder. Now they have a daughter and I have to figure out how to make a human-sized beholder. The daughter looks like an elf except she has one large eye in her face and a large mouth. She has ten eyestalks that originate from various points under her hair (which is down to her feet) and are long enough to reach her feet, but can be retracted to about six inches. I would appreciate any help in making a race that is essentially a beholder with a body that is human sized. Mostly the same abilities, just looking to build the NPC stats like player stats, so trying to make it a race.

Base race is whatever the druid's race is.

Subrace is beholder-kin or whatever you want to call it, and has the following features:

Ability Score Increase (for races whose subraces give ASI): +1 Int
Language: Deep Speech
Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.
Skills: Perception
Special Feature: Eye Ray(s) - As an action, the beholder-kin shoots a number equal to half their proficiency modifier of the following magical eye rays at random (reroll duplicates), choosing targets it can see within 30 feet of it:

List of Eye Rays:

• Insert whatever eye rays you'd allow here; personally I'd look at various cantrips for inspiration

 

[Samloyal23]

Base race is whatever the druid's race is.

Subrace is beholder-kin or whatever you want to call it, and has the following features:

Ability Score Increase (for races whose subraces give ASI): +1 Int
Language: Deep Speech
Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.
Skills: Perception
Special Feature: Eye Ray(s) - As an action, the beholder-kin shoots a number equal to half their proficiency modifier of the following magical eye rays at random (reroll duplicates), choosing targets it can see within 30 feet of it:

List of Eye Rays:

• Insert whatever eye rays you'd allow here; personally I'd look at various cantrips for inspiration

Maybe give the rays some druidical flavour in the choice of powers?

 

[Lanefan]

Maybe give the rays some druidical flavour in the choice of powers?

That opens up some interesting avenues of thought: is adventuring class something one can genetically inherit?

I ask because the ray effects would be an inherited characteristic of the [whatever one calls a half-human half-beholder].

 

[dave2008]

As @LuisCarlos17f noted you can get a free 5e Conversion of Bastards and Bloodlines (with half beholder) here: Bastards & Bloodlines

 

[Fanaelialae]

That opens up some interesting avenues of thought: is adventuring class something one can genetically inherit?

I ask because the ray effects would be an inherited characteristic of the [whatever one calls a half-human half-beholder].

An interesting question with potential world building implications. However, in the case of beholders, they dream their "progeny" into being so genetics isn't involved. Aberrations, amirite?

 

[Tonguez]

That opens up some interesting avenues of thought: is adventuring class something one can genetically inherit?

I ask because the ray effects would be an inherited characteristic of the [whatever one calls a half-human half-beholder].

we already know from Elf subraces that due to magic all kinds of non-genetic traits can be inherited.