D&d 5e Beholder Stats
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Been holding this story in reserve for a little while, as part of it would have given away the betrayal I'd been plotting. Now that cat's out of the bag, so here's the tale of how my party of cocky shitbags took a Beholder boss fight and turned it into fucking nothing.
So, the party's wandering through the depths when they stumble upon a massive cavern. Druid's nature bullshit powers allow him to sense some vague corruption within, but they can't see anything. Cleric casts some sort of Detect Evil thing (causing the secretly evil party members to panic for a bit, but cleric was looking for some nasty and not paying attention to his comrades), and they edge into the cave all cautiously. Where they enter is about thirty or so feet from the cavern's floor, with a spiraling path in the middle of the room leading down to the surface. Once they reach that, the cleric detects something: an aberration, coming right for them.
A few seconds later, a Beholder flies up above the edge of the cliff and starts being ugly at them. Everyone rolls initiative, cleric goes first. He goes to smite it, but I inform him that it's flying out of range. So he looks into the spell book, and then I tell him that the Beholder projects an antimagic field from its main eye, cancelling out any magic in a 150 ft cone in the direction it's looking. Everyone in the party is either spellcaster or melee fighter.
Entire table shits pants. I am smug.
Cleric decides to run down the spiraling path out of its line of sight. Werewolf fighter and one of the paladins do the same. The second paladin (these two were the secretly evil guys, identical twins, essentially the same character) tries to intimidate the Beholder. He fails. Then it's the Beholder's turn, it uses one of its swanky Lair powers to seize the three who fled with spooky wavy arms from out of the walls. Our sorcerer then exploits the fact that his branch of the sorcerer class gets a pair of dragon wings because fuck you by flying out behind the Beholder to get out of the antimagic field. It turns around to look at him as a reaction, foiling his plan, and he ends his turn hovering. Then it's the druid's turn.
This fucking guy. He notes that the Beholder is turned away from him, enabling him to cast a spell. He's right, but I figure he's going to get his shit ruined on the Beholder's next turn. He casts Feeblemind. I blink. This spell, if the target fails their saving throw, reduces the target's Intelligence to 1, rendering them unable to cast or sustain any magical effects. I check the spell description. I check the Beholder's stats. Nothing saying he can't do it. He rolls, DC for Beholder's saving throw is set fucking absurdly high because the Druid has used the Wabbajack to buff his Intelligence into the stratosphere. I roll. The Beholder fails.
D&d 5e Beholder Stats Chart
Fuck.
Beholder's antimagic field stays up, but he can no longer use any of his spells or powers. His only other attack is bite, which does shit damage and forces him to close to melee. In one fell stroke, all of the advantages this thing had were fucked. The melee characters go to town and obliterate the Beholder before the next round is up. I was, admittedly, irked. It could even be said that my jimmies were rustled.
D&d 5e Beholder Stats Guide
I played up my anger to a much greater degree than was necessary though, in order to distract the rest of the players while my secretly evil paladins confronted a problem: one of the captives in the Beholder's lair was a cleric who had known the two of them before they'd gone bad, and if he woke up he would be able to identify them as having fallen. So I raged and screamed for about ten minutes until the two of them decided to try to 'heal' this poor soul with 'Lay on Hands,' while actually casting Vampiric Touch and killing him. All went according to plan, and the party moved on. I gave them no experience for the Beholder.
TL;DR- A Feeblemind a day keeps the Beholder away.
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