Playable Lineage Rules For Player Character Beholderkin
5 Flaws and 59 new thematically appropriate Lineage Feats for Beholderkin in a structured feat selection tree
1 creature statblock
Sure, you’re a nice DM. You want to give your players what they want. But when what they want is to play “Something from the Monster Manual”, then that’s just not practical. Or is it?
Beholderkin are the intelligent scion of a beholder’s dreams, sitting somewhere between the pet gazer and a full beholder. Dreamed into being by a full beholder, with the typical parental jealous paranoia, there few reasons for beholderkin to be allowed to survive for long. Does the dreamer slumber still or is it aware of the new creature’s existence? If it is awake why is the beholderkin still here? Why permit its existence?
This material is designed to allow players to begin a low level game as a gazer type creature and slowly mature into a more beholder-like being, sprouting additional eye stalks as the game progresses.
DMs may allow players to use this material to allow a PC to play as a relative of the classic beholder. Alternatively the structures suggested here can be used by DMs to create a wider variety of NPC beholderkin to challenge more experienced players. We’ve included an example of an altered “Overseer” beholderkin monster statblock to get you started
- from the publisher's blurb