A plot hook for a strange town beset by an even stranger…Beholder Playwright?! Use these ideas to both toy with your players, make truly painful puns, and give them the closest thing to the satisfaction of slaying a terrible DM!

Out of all of my work so far, this is the one I most wish I had some good art for. Cower and run in fear, mere mortals! For this cave had much more than kobolds in it, yes yes! Not that kobolds are a weak race by any stretch, merely misunderstood, our strengths lie […]

The template’s still a bit of a mess (not nearly as elegant as I’d hoped – mixing versatile mechanics with simple ones is so tricky!) But this shadowy surprise ought to make your players’ blood run cold! The Shadow Trap Beholder is a way to introduce a true beholder’s worth of terror at much lower […]

Getting tired of all those massive beholder-ish stat blocks? How about something fairly simple to run, yet devastating? Well here’s a literal engine of destruction for you Disintegrate lovers, courtesy of the least morally-minded Cannith artificers you’ve ever seen: the Iron Eye.

It’s been a long and busy weekend – now time to catch up! Here’s a new 5e take on a blast from 3e’s past, the Order of the Topaz (including new feat and magic item), and a caustic creation right out of my own decaying brains, the Slime Tyrant!

Time for something a bit different than monster variations – a TRAP! Because if there’s anything beholders love, it’s showing off their genius by killing adventurers when they’re not even present. (Jerks!)

It’s time for something truly EPIC! How does a CR 23 beholder who ate the god of the hydras sound? I’ll just assume from your screaming that it sounds great.

Another double feature due to a missed day! The Ocular Adept (not yet playtested so YMMV), and as a bonus some new Lair actions to spice up your beholder battles!

Another magic item this time around – this one was originally featured in 3.5 Edition, but I wanted to recreate it here with 5e sensibilities in mind.

To make up for my Friday lapse, I’m doing a double-feature today: The Eye of Flame and Eye of Frost! This nasty temperature-themed twosome was originally featured in 4th Edition D&D, as sort of variant-beholders. I did a little retooling with their lore (and more with their mechanics) because with the unusual methods of beholder […]