I Just Noticed Something...

[Iron Sky]

Our group can't stay serious whenever we face creatures with gaze weapons anymore. There was a session where the party was facing a monster with prismatic spray as a gaze weapon and it went something like this.

DM: "The monster turns his gaze on you and a blast of energy of all colors of the rainbow blasts out!"
Player: "Rainbow colored? Oh noes, call off your gays!"
Player 2: "Gays attack? Good thing my character is straight!"
Etc.

Yeah.

So, any time the DM has a monster with an attack, they always pause to let the associated quotes and chuckles die down.

Edit: Disclaimer: Just in case someone somehow construes this as anti-gay or homophobic humor - it's not. My sister is bi and one of my favorite people in the world and one of the members of our group's mom is a lesbian (she is now anyway, otherwise he wouldn't be here).

Edit: Disclaimer 2: No my sister isn't single. She's married. Just in case you were going that way. Sheesh, you people.

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

There actually is a baby beholder in the MM3 (I think)... its a 15th level minion with some pretty neat abilities (like the ability to scoot out of bursts/blasts as an interupt).

From what I recall of the entry, I think they are concieved out of other creatures (like how wasps lay eggs in other insects)... and that are unlikely to survive to adulthood, as their parents are more likely to kill them than protect them.

 

[wlmartin]

There actually is a baby beholder in the MM3 (I think)... its a 15th level minion with some pretty neat abilities (like the ability to scoot out of bursts/blasts as an interupt).

From what I recall of the entry, I think they are concieved out of other creatures (like how wasps lay eggs in other insects)... and that are unlikely to survive to adulthood, as their parents are more likely to kill them than protect them.

Um... I don't think so
What page?

 

[bargle0]

What if a Beholder and a Medusa mated... with all around vision, instant death!

A huge floating head with snakes instead of eye stalks. Two eyes, but one of them is tiny, stunted, and motionless. The other is gigantic. The head has two tiny, feminine arms and shriveled, pointy breasts hanging down from it.

Ugh.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A huge floating head with snakes instead of eye stalks. Two eyes, but one of them is tiny, stunted, and motionless. The other is gigantic. The head has two tiny, feminine arms and shriveled, pointy breasts hanging down from it.

Ugh.

And ostracized by the culture of both of her parents, she feels she has no choice but to become a whore...

 

[bargle0]

And ostracized by the culture of both of her parents, she feels she has no choice but to become a whore...

The worst part about that is, due to Rule 34, we know there's a market for that kind of thing.

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Um... I don't think so
What page?

While I do think so . Don't know the page though (I'm at work, my MM3 isn't), but:

Name: Beholder Spawn; Level: 15; Role: Artillery; Group Role: Minion; Source: Monster Manual 3

It's grouped with the other Beholders in that book - if I recall correctly, its the first of them.



Edit: Just clicked on the entry and noticed that the compendium gives page numbers - its on page 22.

 

[Artur Hawkwing]

They've always said that Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder. That's taking it a bit over the top but, hey. It takes all kinds to generate interesting treasure hordes.

 

[wlmartin]

While I do think so . Don't know the page though (I'm at work, my MM3 isn't), but:



It's grouped with the other Beholders in that book - if I recall correctly, its the first of them.



Edit: Just clicked on the entry and noticed that the compendium gives page numbers - its on page 22.

BEHOLDER SPAWN
The means by which beholders procreate is best left a mystery to those who wish to retain their sanity and the contents of their stomachs. Beholder spawn rarely survive the cruelty of their parents; those that do are sometimes found in the company of one. Their youth does nothing to diminish their malevolence, however.

You are right... However I seriously don't think there are Beholder babys, more like some kind of cloning perhaps

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Well, it does describe the original beholder as "the parent" and the spawn are smaller (plus, they are called "spawn") do imply that the beholder spawn are beholder "babies" (well, children anyway). However, given that procreation methods are such as to bend ones sanity and turn ones stomach, its certain they aren't born the ways mammals or reptiles are. Cloning is certainly one way they could be created (though, I would argue said process does not produce an adult beholder, given the spawn's smaller size and minion status), though by no means the only method suggested by your quote.

My favorite theory is that a beholder inserts a mental image of itself into an unwilling host's brain, along with a pinhole portal to the far realms. Over time, the image feeds on the portal (and the host's psyche), slowly gaining reality. Once its ready it becomes solid, and, exploding the host's head, is born. And, given that beholders don't seem to care for their progeny, perhaps this is something that happens instictively... that if a humanoid spends too much time around a beholder, it simply happens.