The 12th eye is actually coming from a deformed gazer, tucked behind this particular beholder. Move along.
@Runesmith5 жыл бұрын
Or maybe I can't do math and can't spell because I have the brain of a half eaten chicken.
@nouglas19895 жыл бұрын
Runesmith: Disses XP to Lvl 3's upload schedule XP to Lvl 3: Uploads 4 years from now in response
@lizapiashko91055 жыл бұрын
you counted from 8 straight to 10
@vicca46715 жыл бұрын
THE MISSING NINE! At least it sounds like a good name for an adventure.
@nanchoparty5 жыл бұрын
So you're just gonna skip 9 like that?
@FirstLast-cg2nk5 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Beholder's brains actually house two separate consciousnesses, both of which are antagonistic to one another. So the main reason why adventurers can kill them is because both consciousnesses are plotting to cause the downfall of the other consciousness while the battle goes on. They're actively sabotaging themselves, despite the fact that this will get both 'minds' killed. *Beholders are quite literally their own worst enemies.*
@noclue41085 жыл бұрын
Trust no one, not even yourself.
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
I really love this idea, it sounds fun to roleplay. Wonder how that could work...
@debreczeniarpad99565 жыл бұрын
Maybe my subconsiousness is trying to kill me, will this be a suicide or a murder?
@noclue41085 жыл бұрын
Debreczeni Árpád It’s neither if you can kill them before they kill you.
@eldritchexploited54625 жыл бұрын
'Listen, the only person here going to kill you is yourself." "WELL NOT IF I KILL HIM FIRST"
@kyzylalchemy97765 жыл бұрын
"It's immpossible to kill a beholder in any situation unless the DM palys them wrong" Same goes for half the monsters in the monster manual.
@dominicodematte4 жыл бұрын
One time during a campaign I just sat down in front of a beholder and confronted it about its fear. The DM was so confused he just gave up and said that it had a stroke from its new realization and died
@elegantoddity86094 жыл бұрын
@@dominicodematte Didn't see that one coming.
@Dualbladedscorpion77374 жыл бұрын
Or (bear with me here) you can use stupity of any sort to kill a beholder.
@huntercraft56743 жыл бұрын
@@dominicodematte lol
@Yabuturtle3 жыл бұрын
If you can fight gods and the tarrasque, pretty sure you can fight a beholder. xD
@pedroscoponi49055 жыл бұрын
I guess the only thing worse than meeting a Beholder is being one. That's kinda sad.
@indan5 жыл бұрын
By D&D cosmology and lore standards, the life of a Beholder is unfortunate but not excessively so considering it's liable to die at some point. That is a luxury many extra planar creatures don't have.
@eoincampbell15845 жыл бұрын
@@indan So it's the death tyrants who are the true victims.
@debreczeniarpad99565 жыл бұрын
But the real question is, gentleman, what if a death tyrrant wish to be squishy again??
@ernestoernestez65375 жыл бұрын
Debreczeni Árpád none desire so
@SondreTehReaper5 жыл бұрын
my sentiment exactly, it must be such a painful existence.
@therudestofclouds20075 жыл бұрын
didn't even mention the beholster. a beholder with 6 guns, each more deadly than the last!
@TheXell5 жыл бұрын
Could he technically wield a Cannon with his telekenesis? Not that i would ever make something like that in Pathfinder.
@silentdrew76365 жыл бұрын
@@TheXell wouldn't that be less harmful though?
@LightRoomRJU5 жыл бұрын
Enter the Gungeon
@MetaL5564 жыл бұрын
@@silentdrew7636 The Beholder could, unwittingly, make the Cannon he's holding ridiculously powerful, like "it launches cannonballs that don't explode, but rather disintegrate everything they touch, leaving cannonball-sized tunnels that go on forever".
@Funny_skeleton_man4 жыл бұрын
@No Name it's pretty easy once you learn to kill the minios
@nathansmith57385 жыл бұрын
Sooo, does that mean you could have a one shot where the players are trying to kill a beholder for reasons they do not know about, only to discover that they are the Beholder's greatest fears literally come to life?
@Haos515 жыл бұрын
I feel like that would be a very interesting way to start off a high level game too, since just imagine how that be like.
@gaminreasons89415 жыл бұрын
Now THAT'S a really good idea!
@zacharyhawley16935 жыл бұрын
"I don't recall existing prior to this moment." Or for added mind games. Have the party come into contact with the actual party that inspired the beholder's nightmare.
@taddad26415 жыл бұрын
oooooh that would be interesting.
@tregggabbard69174 жыл бұрын
Damn...thanks for the awesome idea.
@Electric_Wizard9994 жыл бұрын
All beholders born after 1400DR cant cook, all they know is: Take legendary action, collect magic item, shoot beam of decay, and lie.
@isthisajojoreference3 жыл бұрын
Imagining two beholders fighting is hilarious because they have to either both look away from each other so they can shoot their magic eye rays at their opponent without fucking it up with their own anti-magic cone or they both say screw that and just start biting each other to death.
@bigmonkey1254 Жыл бұрын
That's what usually happens. Beholder fights are long, gruesome, and sort of pathetic to watch.
@android19willpwn5 жыл бұрын
man, they really took the term "lovecraftian" to heart with this one. Right down to the crippling fear of everything unfamiliar, and being unfamiliar with everything.
@arandomzoomer48375 жыл бұрын
And to some degree unfamiliar to everything.
@daronburrell66285 жыл бұрын
Yep 😂
@anonymousbosch92655 жыл бұрын
I’m just starting watching “The Unnameable” on Amazon Prime like 6 minutes ago simultaneously checking my notifications and this is the comment that vindicates the simulation theory of reality..... whatever, right?
@slothful20395 жыл бұрын
@Kel'Thuzad Do we really need to bring this into a video about a giant death eyeball
@glanni5 жыл бұрын
@Kel'Thuzad Phobia literally means *fear* , not *irrational fear* Just in modern psychology it's *mostly* used for irrational-ish fears. But that doesn't mean that every phobia inherently describes an irrational fear by definition.
@felixrowan6465 жыл бұрын
At one point I had a character manage to convince a beholder that they were in fact the actual beholder and the beholder was just a figment sent to kill itself. The beholder recoiled in horror and self-doubt giving the party time to flee. I mean, they never killed the beholder but at least they escaped alive. I'd call that a win.
@sircastic9595 жыл бұрын
Going by Beholder lore, as a DM I would have had that Beholder literally fear itself to death/wish itself out of existence.
@Vanlifecrisis4 жыл бұрын
@@sircastic959 I think they become liches that way, and thats worse.
@jeremybrimmer1990 Жыл бұрын
"Look at them run. They really fell for that? I've got no time for them right now as the real danger may be near by. Nevertheless I'll send some minions after that party and make sure them and their friends, family, home towns, and treasures are destroyed and enslaved in my dungeons. What? We sent them here? Oh...dang, that's right; i forgot." - beholders
@existenceisrelative4 жыл бұрын
My favorite bit of beholder trivia i've ever read is that beholders can be created spontaneously just because they think they should.
@moosh9521 Жыл бұрын
I love the paradox inherent in their creation, Beholders really have such great lovecraftian flavor
@SharkyShocker5 жыл бұрын
Beholders looking at the players is like humans looking at lobsters. They're amusing and pose no real threat until they pull out weapons and try to kill you.
@poppymon0075 жыл бұрын
...if humans were eldritch horrors that thought lobsters and also the sand they were standing on was going to vaporize them
@timjones59535 жыл бұрын
You mess with the crabbo, you get the stabbo.
@SharkyShocker5 жыл бұрын
@@poppymon007 And then as Eldritch Horrors who were afraid of sand and lobsters we would find a place to hide and gather power. However, gathering so much power would gain the attention of the lobsters and thus a group of Lobster adventurers would gather and come to slay said Eldritch Horror with weapons.
@iliketurtles25315 жыл бұрын
So it's self fulfilling. Or is it just their thoughts coming into reality?
@sheldonstare14775 жыл бұрын
"Wait, lobsters can't wield weapons." O B S E R V E
@involuntaryascetic36025 жыл бұрын
you got one big thing wrong, they don't consciously bend reality, it only works in their dreams. this is why a party can actually beat them.
@joshuatilghman91035 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure when he said the party of Adventures shouldn't be able to beat them , he's talking about their obsessive over planning means they have a contingency plan. For example, a Beholder might have a setup in place for when 5 adventurers show up at his door. Lets call this plan number 1,692. Now if this party consists of a wizard, a bard, two clerics, and a paladin, we move to plan 1,692 subsection 411. Now if possible we divise what subclasses they are and what spells they might have prepared and finally after going through about 30 subsections, you have a plan for when the envoker wizard uses fireball you activate the waterfall, while keeping anti magic on the vengeance paladin, having your minions shooting at the lore bard and engaging the paladin ib melee while you attempt to stone the life cleric and disintegrate the Tempest cleric. And all that my just be step 3 lol
@ziz03285 жыл бұрын
Yeah, beholders are the kind of thing that, if played realistically, cannot be beaten. Imagine if all of humanity genius got on a cave, and started thinking of ways to kill YOU when you come to kill THEM. Now imagine they're doing this 24/7, for years on end, all the while amassing armies and powerfull treasures to kill YOU. Now imagine all of them have laser guns. One of them even has a laser gun that jam your laser guns, so you can't fire your lasers on them. Hell, if a beholder is old enough, there's no reason to even have a setting, the thing probably rules the world on a Iron Fist by now, and kills everything that gets a little uppity (which, for a beholder, means beyond level 1)
@Aplesedjr5 жыл бұрын
Zizo Segundo not even beholders can come up with something to overcome the craziness a party is capable of.
@gracefool5 жыл бұрын
@@Aplesedjr yup, Beholders can't have infinite plans,it only takes a few possible combinators before there are too many outcomes to plan for. More importantly, Beholders don't really understand other beings so they can't predict them intuitively like humans do. They have to use up all their intelligence on brute-forcing like a chess AI trying to play the stockmarket.
@Aplesedjr5 жыл бұрын
gracefool and even if they make a perfect plan, the dice determine what happens. The party can roll nothing but good for attacks and saves, then the beholder gets destroyed.
@austinpire5 жыл бұрын
Ah, I remember my first Beholder encounter. It spoke German. Like, our DM did not know what to do with a Beholder, so it just spoke German. That's literally it. Oh, no wait, it was strong.
@killahkween52565 жыл бұрын
nothing says a scary eldritch monstrosity than a german speaking beholder
@Glace12215 жыл бұрын
Did it wipe you guys? Stick you in the furnace?
@LifeLikeSage5 жыл бұрын
stark
@pwnmeisterage5 жыл бұрын
Most D&D settings refer to the language as "Orcish" instead of "German".
@DanSolo415 жыл бұрын
I want to say your DM was utterly wrong, but...
@TheInsider155 жыл бұрын
So basically they're narcissistic powerful beings who are feared by others...and yet paradoxically they fear everyone and everything around them?
@debreczeniarpad99565 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, they fear you mire, but also they got a higher "fucking-killing-you" chance than you....
@elcidbob4 жыл бұрын
It's not so much fear everything as are 100% sure that everything is trying to kill them so they have to make sure to set things up to where they can kill whatever that is actively trying to kill them at this moment before they can. Seems a difference without distinction, but it's sort of not in that a beholder won't huddle in terror at the thought of something trying to kill it, or even think of most creatures as actual threats, but it does realize that enough working together or getting lucky might get it. It's kind of a cop out but it's more a paranoia than a fear... But most things really do want to kill beholders
@charlesraccoonington92804 жыл бұрын
So communists.
@charlesraccoonington92804 жыл бұрын
@SaviorOfNirn Oh I know! Nazis! And Daleks, but they're just a salt shaker version of the former.
@justsomejerseydevilwithint46064 жыл бұрын
Hello, Sociopath.
@awhitet-shirt47925 жыл бұрын
"as inconsistent as XP to Level 3's uploads" I hope you have Burn Heal!
@andievaldez64765 жыл бұрын
Mitchell Pierce A self burn! Those are rare.
@rfc15265 жыл бұрын
A Phoenix Down maybe better
@tomoyaokazaki70105 жыл бұрын
Pokemon and Final Fantasy references in the same thread. Yeet
@namekman015 жыл бұрын
i read that last sentence as " i hope you burn in heal" and i was just picturing the plane of positive energy
@XPtoLevel35 жыл бұрын
got 'em
@steinarbergstl57995 жыл бұрын
Ah yes. Beholders. I had a high level paladin back when disintegrate actually disintegrated you, period. No messing with hitpoint damage or anything like that. Fail the save and you're dust. Anyways, this paladin came had gotten separated from his party for some reason, I seem to remember some sort of fear magic from a lich was involved. So, he runs around a corner in the dungeion and comes face to eyeballs with a beholder. Paladin vs Beholder - Round one, FIGHT! Zap! Result one round later: Dungeon corridor with one beholder and one small pile of dust. Ah. Memories.
@christofferhougaard4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it 3rd edition where disintegrate juat zapped you gone? I remember every wizard running around with Contingency and teleport... Oh man.
@jacobsheehan97153 жыл бұрын
Beholder anti magic field
@wanderinghistorian5 жыл бұрын
Best video yet, I laughed till I cried. Then I remembered I dreamt I'd die from drowning, so I burned out my tear ducts. Now all I need to do is disintegrate all the oceans.
@olive69425 жыл бұрын
removed the icecaps as well, I had a dream I will die of a polar bear riding a penguin
@Eggsecuter5 жыл бұрын
Should we tell him he’s made of water
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
@@Eggsecuter *dehydrates self and turns to dust*
@brianfinlay58175 жыл бұрын
Soooo, what you're saying is that Beholders are Death Stars of the D&D world, but with eyes.
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
@ frankly, I think a torpedo up your exhaust port would defeat you too.
@lucabasirico77265 жыл бұрын
A beholder duel would just be a staring contest, first one to blink with the anti-magic eye loses
@Snowy1235 жыл бұрын
I''m glad you covered the most important fact, beholders like goldfish.
@connorhennessey13165 жыл бұрын
It wasn't Gary's nightmare about a soccer ball with eyes that gave us the Beholder. It was one of his friends nightmare about a soccer ball with eyes that he shared with Gary Gygax that gave us the Beholder! THANKS GARY'S FRIEND!
@Carewolf5 жыл бұрын
So were did the gelatinous cube come from?
@pulchritudinoushog5 жыл бұрын
His grandson nearly choked on some jello
@CouchDrake5 жыл бұрын
This actually made me feel sorry for them, I never actually considered that the root of their xenophobia was constant paranoia driven fear. An existence of constant fear is rather sad to imagine.
@seelcudoom1 Жыл бұрын
if it makes you feel better i would like to inform you that there is canonically at least one beholder who got over it and is super chill, his name is Large Luigi and he runs a tavern
@nymphlotus5 жыл бұрын
The Terraria segment was great! The trouble you went through to actually make yourself look like a Beholder in game was fantastic.
@pkennelly745 жыл бұрын
Yeah, getting that vehicle is hard.
@divinityd6625 жыл бұрын
@@pkennelly74 its not hard, just grindy. I think i ended uo trading a dupe cosmic car key for most of the mats back in the day
@audiofox51045 жыл бұрын
Or you could use builders workshop or mods
@ahrkens5 жыл бұрын
Patrick Kennelly *ahem* hacked worlds
@tyleremery70885 жыл бұрын
I'm never going to see that mount as anything else but a beholder now.
@jondw5 жыл бұрын
Beholders constantly think about how the world is out to get them, they dream about stuff they think about, and there dreams alter reality to create things. How are they not just constantly being killed.
@magnusanderson66815 жыл бұрын
Because they have plans to deal with them.
@taddad26415 жыл бұрын
@@magnusanderson6681 not when a red dragon suddenly spawns in your bedroom when your plan was that it would fall through the portal to the celestail realms if it tried to enter from catacombs, the only playce it would fit.
@Jesse__H5 жыл бұрын
We saw a beholder from a great distance away, once. We went the other way and never came back lol
@Zeuskabob15 жыл бұрын
@@jonumine6250 Fun fact, cacodaemons are monsters as well.
@whoops4875 жыл бұрын
Use bread like he said
@fredapel60394 жыл бұрын
Gaseos form
@cornuschristi18144 жыл бұрын
@@jonumine6250 I would file them under Demons.
@jacobsheehan97153 жыл бұрын
Beholder: good
@tdoubledub15 жыл бұрын
I kinda want to have my party fight a beholder, and when they kill it, It'll say "nevermind, I dont want to be dead" and just get back up as a death tyrant
@Feu_Ghost Жыл бұрын
Are you Satan ?
@2ntwins5 жыл бұрын
This is why I love dragon heist. YOu aren't supposed to kill xanathar. Just ruin his day.
@Bluecho45 жыл бұрын
Which, when you think about it, is more cruel. Because if The Xanathar is dead, _he can't suffer anymore._
@beastwarsFTW5 жыл бұрын
I thought I was just supposed to replace his dead goldfish. Ya his own organization hires thieves to replace his pet when it dies without his knowing.
@taddad26415 жыл бұрын
i imagine that the rampage would kill him because he would be utterly unstable and enraged and would eventually succumb to numbers. also i think there i a mindflayer there.
@cookiestudios25655 жыл бұрын
but then i could steal Sylgar
@Aplesedjr4 жыл бұрын
Bluecho4 there are afterlives for a reason.
@devilcat86514 жыл бұрын
The beholder in my campaign had a pet goldfish that died and was really sad. We all found him a new pet and he was very happy. He was the sweetest beholder I ever met.
@davidpotts71165 жыл бұрын
How to deal with Death Tyrants in 3 steps: 1. get about 20 lv20 wizards 2. have whoever goes first cast Darkness and the rest cast Sunbeam 3. profit
@evannibbe93754 жыл бұрын
Ethan Hall Have them be arranged in a circle around the Beholder, then have each one cast Imprisonment until it takes after the first one casts Force Cage.
@Vanlifecrisis4 жыл бұрын
@@evannibbe9375 How tf you gonna surround a beholder with 11 death eyeballs
@jonalynmisalang94474 жыл бұрын
@Ethan Hall death tyrants don't have their antimagic sight anymore, only a "No-regaining-hit-points-and -if-you-die-you-turn-into-a-zombie- slave" sight
@orlando7805 жыл бұрын
So it’s a lovecraftian monster with lovecraft’s emotions.
@IOnlyWantToWatchIt5 жыл бұрын
"EYE apolog-EYES, to m-EYE VIEWers" Got em
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
Ayy lmao/10 would ayy lmao again
@Кайо-н4в5 жыл бұрын
i legit thought "how in the world would someone kill this?'' when i read the beholder manual entry in d&d
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
It's fun thinking about all the zany traps, magical items and spells they could use on top of all this.
@RipOffProductionsLLC4 жыл бұрын
my thoughts on this is that the Beholder's paranoia is so cripplingly strong that it is constantly double/triple/quadruple/pentuple/etc. guessing itself about how everything it could do to protect itself might backfire, thus ruining any attempt at long term planning, as it scraps and revises plans that would have been perfectly fine to keep, thus in combat it never exp[loits weakness in their enemies, fearing that any opening is actually a cleaver trap.
@lagg1e3 жыл бұрын
Probably by not being in the same room as it. Or tank and spank from characters that can take eye beams really well.
@HoundofOdin5 жыл бұрын
First time I ever encountered a beholder was back in 2E AD&D. It killed us. IT KILLED ALL OF US.
@brosephnoonan2235 жыл бұрын
_What did I cost?_
@chrishubbard644 жыл бұрын
Cast darkness so it cant see you THEN CAST MAGIC MISSILE AT THE DARKNESS!
@returnofthechickentendies28444 жыл бұрын
@@chrishubbard64 "anti magic cone"
@TaosoftheVoid3 жыл бұрын
This gives me a fascinating idea for a character concept: A beholder that in its paranoia, desires to find a way to understand people. It creates not just one person but an entire settlement and watches them to try and understand what they think about, how likely they may be to kill them, etc. It leads to eventually the beholder has created this town or city that believes the beholder is their god protector, not seeing the true reason they were created and watched over. It'd be an interesting thing for a party or some characters to interact with, a beholder that tries to counter the paranoia with knowledge
@Glace12215 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes. The wise philosopher Sock Kratos. I remember reading his writings in my favorite Muppets book.
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
The god of war had quite a long fall from grace, after losing Atreus prompted him to become a philosopher, searching for the meanings of life as a sock puppet.
@verriganholmes80545 жыл бұрын
God of War: Atreus' Epic Yarn
@HAWK_6155 Жыл бұрын
_Death Tyants - when great-grandpa Beholder reflects on his mortality, and then pulls the badass move of just straight up refusing it._ Best description for a DnD monster I think I've ever heard XD
@jordanloux38835 жыл бұрын
So basically what if the mind flayers were even more neurotic?
@tonydanatop49125 жыл бұрын
And ugly
@brosephnoonan2235 жыл бұрын
@@tonydanatop4912 *perfect Fixed it for you
@sylph80054 жыл бұрын
@@brosephnoonan223 Found the beholder
@DZXJR3 жыл бұрын
Or smarter cacodemons
@davemustang81735 жыл бұрын
"The gravity gun from half-life" Never heard a more accurate statement
@WilTheNyanCharmander5 жыл бұрын
Damn, these are *WAY* more lovecraftian than mind flayers
@shinto5165 жыл бұрын
Beholders sound just like DMs
@kylepessell13505 жыл бұрын
They have canon plot armor. All they have to do is have a dream about being invincible.
@debreczeniarpad99565 жыл бұрын
@@kylepessell1350 But they only think about being in danger
@sandninja514925 жыл бұрын
Waiting for XP to level 3 to respond to that burn damage.
@Hazel-xl8in5 жыл бұрын
Aaron Slay i think he’s part of that crew right
@brosephnoonan2235 жыл бұрын
@@Hazel-xl8in Ye
@sandninja514925 жыл бұрын
@@Hazel-xl8in yeah but it's a friendly self burn. The best kind of burn.
@justsomejerseydevilwithint46063 жыл бұрын
So uh, Gary took the concept and body part of Vision, and stuck enough together with magic that it became a terrifying monster. My turn: Hands. The Snatcher is a monstrosity that manifests at rest as a large pile of dozens to hundreds of humanoid hands, each one ending at the mid-forearm, surrounding a gooey, gray, sticky core. When active, the hands interlock into whatever shapes are necessary for their task. Large pillars of interlocking hands acting as muscles in an arm ending with fist-like ball, daisy-chains of hands holding the base of other hands reach very, very far, acting as long tentacular structures, hands can line its underside to crawl rapidly over nearly any surface, eyes sprout from the palms of a few, and groups of clawed hands tear away at prey, killing them messily but efficiently, if no sharp utensils are in its possession. A Snatcher that gets its many hands on a cutlery box or a silverware drawer can be quite lethal in close quarters. An urban ambush predator, The Snatcher will lure humanoid prey to dark alleyways with glittering coins or enchanted weapons placed on the edge of the shadows, where it grabs the curious humanoid by the head, covering their mouth, eyes, and ears, and pulling them through a nearby window, doorway, hall, drain cover, trapdoor, Sewer grate, or other opening where they are pulled and carried back to its den, along with the bait. It then uses clawed hands or sharp utensils to kill and slice up its prey, dropping the meat chunks into its gooey core, which then spits out more hands for the pile. A city with a snatcher infestation will be characterized by streets surprisingly clear of rats, stray dogs, or homeless people, all of which snatched up long ago, and while few thieves hide in the alleys, party members will find coin pouches cut off and pockets pilfered if they rest very long on a city street. A very lethal threat to any greedy party rogue, the Snatcher will happily devour any adventurer foolish enough to walk over to that perfectly good sword someone just left there...
@DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop5 ай бұрын
This certainly has grabbed my attention. How intelligent would it be? I could see it on par with a monkey, animalistic but can use tools and form simple plans or set traps. I'd give it tremor sense, because it can feel vibrations with it's more sensitive hands. Some hands could have mouths in their center which can speak and eat. How does it procreate? Maybe it gets so large that all the hands struggle to coordinate, making it unable to go hunting. In frustration it tears itself apart, creating multiple smaller versions of itself. This is usually a great time to attack it, as each part is weakened from the procedure.
@justsomejerseydevilwithint46065 ай бұрын
@@DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop it eats by dissolving stuff in its core, and for intelligence, about on par with a human. Smart enough to use tools, maybe make some plans or traps, but nit a genius by any means. It only speaks Sign Language, of course. It procreates by splitting off a section of its core when it's too large for its available food. The child then scuttles away to find a different hunting ground.
@zyrax86065 жыл бұрын
Beholders true enemies is burnt toast
@eoincampbell15845 жыл бұрын
I might actually use that as a possible weird quirk if a warlock player of mine chooses the Aberration(Great Old One) subclass. Just every once in a while he'll hear a cosmic scream of "DESTROY" when he sees anything made of wheat.
@sofialaya5965 жыл бұрын
@@eoincampbell1584 that's so good
@Legohaiden5 жыл бұрын
Irrational oddities are what make ADD great! "Hey guys im just going to eat this Loaf of bread real quick, im hungry." *ZzaaPP!!* "Dude what the hell! You almost hit me with lightning!"
@Legohaiden5 жыл бұрын
and in the warlocks mind he hears a satisfied "mmm..... yes"
@grayeaglej5 жыл бұрын
Is burnt toast not the truest enemy of us all? O.o
@shan9usfc5 жыл бұрын
Goblin Slayer and friends killed it in a reasonable way With a pouch full of flammable eye irritants.
@vincegalila72113 жыл бұрын
That might have been a spectator though.
@griffian44545 жыл бұрын
I love the "I'll use Terraria as an example I guess".
@riddleblue-eyes87685 жыл бұрын
I'll use my Enter the Gungeon example
@Pr0fess0rSasquatch3 жыл бұрын
*begins writing campaign about a mysterious wheat shortage, with the toast fearing beholder as BBEG*
@bjarnivalur63305 жыл бұрын
You know what they say, beauty is in the eye of the beekeeper. ... wait
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
I heard of a DM who made a very shitty pun once. He told the players rumours of a beholder lurking on the outskirts of town. They went into the woods to investigate and got jumped by a dude holding beehives in both hands who yelled out "BEHOLD, IT IS I, THE BEE HOLDER!" You're welcome.
@TheShooterlol5 жыл бұрын
NOT THE BEES!!!!!
@corngamming5 жыл бұрын
@@kylestanley7843 Was he at least as powerful as a god?
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
@@corngamming he better have been lol
@arcanejazz5 жыл бұрын
3:22 FACTUALLY 100% TRUE. A lone beholder on Xanax would conquer all the Forgotten Realms, and move on to the Multiverse.
@BlancaMari5 жыл бұрын
If I take anything away from this it'll be "They're Coming"
@brosephnoonan2235 жыл бұрын
*WELCOME TO THE BONE ZONE*
@jaywingate1875 жыл бұрын
I was all "well THAT got creepy fast!"
@thedragonflyers61845 жыл бұрын
Anyone else think death kiss is super adorable?
@d00dxKVLT5 жыл бұрын
You're the GCP grey of D&D. I love your basically series. Thank you.
@hephaestus82665 жыл бұрын
I was going to say beholders are hideous, but then i remembered beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
@madelyntielking64835 жыл бұрын
So all beholders are just pusillanimous copies of an original beholder?
@adeadvirus56395 жыл бұрын
That becomes more paranoid with each successive generation
@derrickmelton58445 жыл бұрын
@@adeadvirus5639 wouldn't you be if your creator tried to murder you lol
@jacobhoover16544 жыл бұрын
I bet you call salt sodium chloride
@Mindochin032 жыл бұрын
The antimagic ray is the safest place to be since the other eyes can't magic you there, so you bunch up with your melee members in front, magic casters behind and if it looks away it gets a lightning bolt to the face
@TheSoliloquyMan5 жыл бұрын
"...Viewers." Eye see what you did there
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
That was a very cornea joke.
@TheSoliloquyMan5 жыл бұрын
If you wish to master these jokes, you must train... Or become my pupil
@arandomzoomer48375 жыл бұрын
@@TheSoliloquyMan Yeah but your not the teacher I'm looking for. I'll set my sights elsewhere.
@boldbearings3 жыл бұрын
This is probably my favorite vid. I come back to watch it all the time; so nonchalant, so upbeat.👍
@A.Broken.Arrow.5 жыл бұрын
I love everything Lovecraftian. So this is incredible.
@Serpentking78911 ай бұрын
The best description of Beholders I've ever read was "an eldritch lovecraftian abomination but with the personality of the actual H.P. Lovecraft".
@vicca46715 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna roleplay a beholder at some point. Obviously I'm DMing in this case.
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
Nah you totally meant as a player
@frog_champ5 жыл бұрын
Damn, imagine a beholder player-character
@vicca46715 жыл бұрын
@@frog_champ If it was well justified I'd let it happen on a high level campaign
@vicca46715 жыл бұрын
@@kylestanley7843 I'd like, but no one would let me, so I'll do the next best thing
@schism_98935 жыл бұрын
"Everyone introduce yourselves." "I am a dwarven paladin named Bulgor Stoenfist." "I am an Elven Sorcerer named Anaror." "I am a Beholder Wizard. Named Gugbugolith." "I'm the DM, and I'm stopping you right there."
@craytherlaygaming28524 жыл бұрын
"And a Second Death ray for good measure, you never can be too careful" That Got me
@thiagotortorelli10005 жыл бұрын
Can a beholder use glasses? If he uses one his main eye does he need to use it in his other eyes? A man can only wonder
@mothersteele32185 жыл бұрын
“Beholders can accidentally create anything” *has a campaign idea around a beholder accidentally creating a god*
@felixrivera8955 жыл бұрын
If your players do Literally Anything you have the right to scream "Ah approach 3215A with the badger! WELL HAVE SOME OCTOPUS!" And telekinesis a giant summoned octopus onto the cleric
@kylepessell13505 жыл бұрын
I'd go out of my way to make a Beholder NPC that's virtually omnipotent but is both extremely paranoid and eccentric to the point where they are basically a conspiracy theorist hermit that instantly dispatches anything unfamiliar in increasingly bizarre ways.
@felixrivera8955 жыл бұрын
@@kylepessell1350 that's the base description for the Beholder in the monster manual lmao
@1Maklak4 жыл бұрын
To make it extra Lovecraftian, a beholder nest also needs to be a source of some wandering monsters and have a village of frog people nearby, whose shaman speaks the will of the many-eyed god who dreams.
@sizal11855 жыл бұрын
0:17 I literally got the notification that my phone was at 15% at this moment, it was beutiful
@BRDoriginal3 жыл бұрын
My beholder was created by another beholder to be a more perfect beholder. Proceeds to dream up the main bad guy who is destined to kill him. Then decided if he is gonna kill me then I will make a beholder strong enough to kill him. A cycle of beholders making 'better' beholder to 'save' then from a horrible fate. Cue the 'alliance' with the party because the enemy of my enemy is my temporary ally until I decide to kill them.
@joosh96035 жыл бұрын
I like how the charming eye is “South of the Border”
@TeslaOsiris3 жыл бұрын
Now I see where Mercer modeled his Lucien Omega final boss
@androo6995 жыл бұрын
“XP to level 3 has inconsistent uploads” - Sock Kratos
@mgb3605 жыл бұрын
*Displays a picture of Ferris* "More traps" -Runesmith 2019 I agree
@megamagicmonkey5 жыл бұрын
Loose? LOOSE?!? My biggest english pet peeve! Lose! It's lose! You loose a plague! You lose the hounds upon your enemies! The convict got loose! But you sir? You lose! Also fun video.
@mariofan1ish3 жыл бұрын
Honestly these things sound like a combination of hilarious antics, tough bosses, and a tragic existence I wouldn't wish on anyone. I can kinda see why they wound up so popular over the years.
@0215YK4 жыл бұрын
Hold up. **HOLD UP** WHAT IF.....you plunged into a beholders den wearing nothing but GLASS ARMOR?! Reflection will kill them?
@The7thBobba3 жыл бұрын
Dude, I rewatch your old videos on a weekly basis. They are just so good! You have a marvealous sense of humour and comedic timing. Whenever you make a new video, it skyrockets to the very top of my watch-list. What I'm trying to say here, is thank you mate! You make a tremendous difference to this guy. Stay frosty!
@squared2314 жыл бұрын
Imagine great-grandpa is in his death bed and the doctor tells him that he will die soon and he just straight up refuses to.
@widdershins37854 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is, i'm pretty sure that's happened. I've lived in the farming communities with enough crotchety old folks who don't let a little thing like missing chunks of a body or cancer slow them down.
@samueldimmock694 Жыл бұрын
@@widdershins3785 Yeah, the human mind can be funny that way.
@bensonfitch6697 Жыл бұрын
Man, you really threw me for a loop. I saw one of the eyes wasn’t labeled and thought “did he just miscount” and I spent 5 minutes thinking and researching before I realized you just skipped 9.
@paynt37705 жыл бұрын
2:19 You forgot 9 Count chockula would be disapointed
@Freedster5 жыл бұрын
But he also skipped an eye, so it's still 11.
@paynt37705 жыл бұрын
@@Freedster Yeah but hes still missing that eye
@WildBluntHickok4 жыл бұрын
You mean Count von Count from Sesame Street. The cereal mascot isn't known for counting things.
@badteamonk4 жыл бұрын
The first minute of this video gave me so much whiplash with all of the jokes and attacks on random people's character.
@takenomicon5 жыл бұрын
Beholders are fun. Aka play Waterdeep and have Xanathar as a great villain.
@lizapiashko91055 жыл бұрын
fish
@chugiakjrtheplaywwright64614 жыл бұрын
I actually once made a Psion/Mystic that was a humanoid beholder created when it's "parent" beholder ended up having a dream of being/becoming a humanoid, and who managed to escape and was adopted by farmers. After being told a bedtime story about magical animals he had a fanciful dream about him and his new family running a zoo for such creatures. When he woke up his family was gone and the only people that fit the description of the people he knew were a distant group of nobles that specialized in trading exotic animals. Authorities noticing his unusual powers and seeing him sprouting nonsense, assumed he was some unhinged wizard and sent him off to a Mental Asylum that specifically caters for spellcasters.
@widdershins37854 жыл бұрын
Wow. That's actually done the most in helping me understand what all the "Psychic" shenanigans are with Mystics. That's so Meta. A character that is a character because a character preestablished was characterized as making characters. Ah, my head. This is why any magical realm would have Spellcaster specific Mental Wards. *Because there's always a small chance the madmen aren't lying.*
@trainzen115 жыл бұрын
Eye should have foreseen all these aye puns. Oh the eyerony!
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
*jesus christ, it's Jason borne.*
@sweatpantsromance4 жыл бұрын
must have been an over*sight* on your part
@jahjah79404 жыл бұрын
Everybody gangsta, till a Cacodemon shows up to the fight
@paille-boy4 жыл бұрын
"It's impossible for a beholder to die unless the DM play him wrong" Goblin slayer : hold my beer
@CrimsonFox365 жыл бұрын
The story behind the goldfish is quite humorous. Xanathar, a beholder, is literally insane. and the only thing he cares about in this world is his precious goldfish; to the point that if anything happened to it, he would destroy half of the world. BUT because goldfish have the lifespan of a ham sandwich, every time it dies, Xan's minions scramble to find a replacement. Xanathar hasn't caught on to this day.
@sliffer1165 жыл бұрын
By this logic the first time I met a beholder (albeit a zombie beholder) Me and my horse got snapped. What a thought.
@go0segotl0ose2 жыл бұрын
I will never forget the time my party killed a gazer, and I described its death as it turning into goop. They then went on to make gazer goop a staple food that they would bring up as much as possible.
@senatorbillchupacabreiii7495 жыл бұрын
My favorite is the beholster from enter the gungeon
@kylestanley78435 жыл бұрын
He was pretty funny ngl
@richardgibson84035 жыл бұрын
Big Lasagna *gun*
@ahzekahriman93794 жыл бұрын
The only time I’ve ever seen a Beholder defeated was when a blind Warforged with 3 intelligence accidentally charged and slammed into the core eye and nat20ed an ability check and destroyed it, and then the stealthy wizard of the party blasted it to all hell while the warforged thrashed inside its eye socket using barbarian rage.
@purplelaxy49765 жыл бұрын
0:46 sick burn
@manipulationstation24545 жыл бұрын
That was awesome! My favorite of the"Basically" series by far. DO NOT STOP MAKING THESE.....Please :)
@islaydragons15635 жыл бұрын
I think the next one should be Basically Aboleths
@skulaaa5 жыл бұрын
This series brought me to this channel. Please keep it up!
@clericofchaos15 жыл бұрын
Yep, there are actually quite a lot of things in the monster manuals across all editions that a party of players really can't beat without some kind of handicap from the gm. including dragons.
@rastasplash73345 жыл бұрын
Dale: Did this just become my new favorite dnd KZbinr Brennan: YUP!
@missyjames88875 жыл бұрын
For some reason I'm reminded of Futurama's Star Trek episode with the floating cloud of gas.
@officersoulknight63212 жыл бұрын
DND noob, had heard of the crazy things beholders can do, and in today’s campaign session, at 3rd level, we saw a spectator. We didn’t know what it was, I went crazy and though it was the full blown thing, and then we found out the real beholders were bigger than these. Before we knew their names we called it a C-holder, since it’s weaker than a Beholder.
@Ingothrial5 жыл бұрын
My wife bought me that Nick Cage pillow for our anniversary last month because for Christmas i got her a pillow case of Nick Cage on a rainbow
@ContagiousRepublic4 жыл бұрын
Let's make a party made of beholders!!! What's the worse that could happen? Make sure to ask each player about several nightmares, to make sure you KNOW that's the worse that could happen, is what happens when they take a long rest!!! What if they don't want to rest? Paranoia debuff is permanently cumulative and leads to madness!
@tape0n4head835 жыл бұрын
"Sir..you'll die someday" "Yeah no, I'm death now"
@maxthepaladin21474 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, but this panicked beholder jumping into the ocean at 1:34 is really funny to me