Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons)
Fictional monster in Dungeons & Dragons / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The beholder is a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is depicted as a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and many smaller eyestalks on top with powerful magical abilities.
Beholder | |
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Tom Wham's illustration of a beholder from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual, 1977 | |
First appearance | Greyhawk (1975) |
In-universe information | |
Type | Aberration |
Alignment | Lawful Evil |
The beholder is among the Dungeons & Dragons monsters that have appeared in every edition of the game since 1975.[1]: 39–41 Beholders are one of the few classic Dungeons & Dragons monsters that Wizards of the Coast claims as Product Identity and as such was not released under its Open Game License.[2] Beholders have been used on the cover of different Dungeons & Dragons handbooks, including the fifth edition Monster Manual.