D&D General Give me Beholders!

[Keefe the Thief]

So, I'm working on my own version of Undermountain, which is basically going to be a cross of old Undermountain, new Undermountain and Dungeon Meshi. And I want to make it about beholders. Like, make beholders the one unifying thing, ideally having different types of beholders on every level. However, official sources on D&D Beyond only give me the Death Tyrant, normal beholder, Death Kiss, Gauth, Beholder Zombie, Spectator and Gazer. Many of the older ones are missing, especially Gouger, Observer, Overseer, Director, Eye of the Deep, Eye of Shadow, Beholder Mages, Elder Orbs, Hive Mothers and Doomspheres. And I'm sure others I don't know about.

Is there a book on D&D Beyond you can recommend that has good beholder variants?

DM's guild recommendations are great, too, but I'm searching for 5e stats. I have stuff in earlier version form.

Cheers for the help!

 

[Micah Sweet]

This is what I use:

Dungeon Masters Guild

www.dmsguild.com

Most of the older beholder monsters are updated here.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Dragonix's Monster Manual Expended 1-2-3 on the Dmguilds are an excellent source of themed monster groups. IIRC you'll find the Hive Mother and more in one of them.

 

[J-H]

WOTC held a DM competition a few years ago, and I made a Beholder-themed trap for it. Perhaps you can use it!
It is not for low level groups.

 

[the Jester]

I've done buttloads of monster conversions, and yet somehow, of the ones you mentioned, I have only done the director (and crawler, the monster that directors use as a mount). These contain my versions, if you want them, along with... a few other monsters.

EDIT: Oh- I use a slightly different method for running beholders. Instead of giving them legendary actions, I use the 4e mechanic where at the start of a creature's turn, if it's close enough, the beholder fires a random eye ray at it. If you prefer legendary actions, you could easily swap that out.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Lords of Madness for 3.5 still can't be beat for aberrations IMO.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

DM's guild recommendations are great, too, but I'm searching for 5e stats.

Most of DMs Guild is 5E material.

 

[Oryzarius]

While fighting space clowns in a recent Spelljammer campaign, we ran into a clown beholder. Instead of petrifying characters, it turned them into carnival plushes. Instead of casting web, it stuck PCs in place with gobs of cotton candy.

It was terrifying.

 

[beta-ray]

So, I'm working on my own version of Undermountain, which is basically going to be a cross of old Undermountain, new Undermountain and Dungeon Meshi.

Yum Beholder Eye tempura (horn sound plays)

 

[deadman1204]

You should bring back the older beholder abilities that 5th ed left out. Like the antimagic beam - its not an attack its just always on. So if beholder is facing you, 100% of magic items cease to function. This alone makes them WAY more dangerous.