

The balor is a demon, and you are in for a tough fight if your party encounters one. His most prized possession is his pet goldfish, Sylgar.Īs you may have heard from outraged, under-informed individuals from the 1980s, D&D lore features its share of devils and demons. One of the most infamous Beholders in the realms is the Xanathar, also called The Eye, who was a criminal lord of a Thieve’s Guild in Skullport. If the disintegration ray brings the target’s hit points to zero, it reduces the target to a fine ash, which cannot be revived. However, those spells require a body to work. The death ray can kill a creature if it reduces its hit points to zero, but a Revivify or Raise Dead spell still can restore that individual’s life after the fact.

The disintegration ray is perhaps the most dangerous. Ten more eye stalks protrude from the beholder, each of which can shoot a different type of destructive ray: charm, paralysis, fear, slowing, enervation (necrotic damage), telekinesis, sleep, petrification, disintegration, and death. This flying monster has one large, central eye which projects a large anti-magic cone, which makes it much more difficult for spellcasting opponents to fight it. The beholder is a terrifying aberration, a classic monster that a dungeon master can use to get a party’s attention in a hurry.
