Gez
First Post
I'm not sure if someone already pointed this out, but a graveyard of floated dead beholders would be a visual pretty cool to look at. With some of them that are actually undead. And undead flies festering on the corpses and flying everywhere.
More seriously:
Beholders sadly don't make graveyard. Although LE, they don't like being in group (despite some fabled beholder cities and hives in the underdark); and thus can't gather their dead.
Now, if there is a "Cemetary of the Beholders" in the same way there are for mighty beasts such as Elephants and Dragons, why not. It would be a cool quest to find such a mythic place. But without ivory or treasure, I'm not sure of what could motivates the adventurers, however. Except, of course, looking at a cool visual.
Normal Beholders don't have, to the extent of my knowledge, helium bladders of things like that. However, in 2e, there were the Gorbels, herd beholderkin who floated thanks to a highly volatile gas in a bladder in their body. Killing one of them made it explode, making sure the other Gorbels nearby would also die and explode in the blast, thus creating a chain reaction making them look extremely silly. (Although a huge herd of explosing Gorbels was also a cool visual.) Problem is, they usually lived in cramped areas of the underdark.
Most DMs assume standard Beholders fall when they die, as the magic that make them levitate is in their soul, not their body. However, Beholders are a highly mutable race, so they should be allowed to fall of stay afloat (or explode !), depending on the individual.
Now, a new question: Does an Arrowhawk fall when he die (considering even their eggs are floating) ?
More seriously:
Beholders sadly don't make graveyard. Although LE, they don't like being in group (despite some fabled beholder cities and hives in the underdark); and thus can't gather their dead.
Now, if there is a "Cemetary of the Beholders" in the same way there are for mighty beasts such as Elephants and Dragons, why not. It would be a cool quest to find such a mythic place. But without ivory or treasure, I'm not sure of what could motivates the adventurers, however. Except, of course, looking at a cool visual.
Normal Beholders don't have, to the extent of my knowledge, helium bladders of things like that. However, in 2e, there were the Gorbels, herd beholderkin who floated thanks to a highly volatile gas in a bladder in their body. Killing one of them made it explode, making sure the other Gorbels nearby would also die and explode in the blast, thus creating a chain reaction making them look extremely silly. (Although a huge herd of explosing Gorbels was also a cool visual.) Problem is, they usually lived in cramped areas of the underdark.
Most DMs assume standard Beholders fall when they die, as the magic that make them levitate is in their soul, not their body. However, Beholders are a highly mutable race, so they should be allowed to fall of stay afloat (or explode !), depending on the individual.
Now, a new question: Does an Arrowhawk fall when he die (considering even their eggs are floating) ?
