#dnd Spectator

[kon4ka]

👁️Hookah - Beholder👁️

He's looking at you! I am not only a 2D but also a 3D artist, I made a model for my courses at the institute. I had to remember everything I know about sculpting, retopology, baking, texture creation and rendering, but I'm very happy with the result. I hope you like it too! Dungeons and Dragons and Baldur's Gate 3 have left their mark on me. I remembered everything I knew about baking and working in Zbrush. I really didn’t think that I would be able to do something terrible.

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Он смотрит на вас! Я не только 2д но и 3д художник, сделала модель для моих курсов в институте. Пришлось вспомнить всё, что я знаю о скульпте, ретопологии, запечке, создании текстур и рендере, но я очень довольна результатом. Надеюсь, вам тоже понравиться! Подземелья и драконы и Baldur's Gate 3 оставили таки на мне свой отпечаток. На самом деле не думала, что у меня получиться сделать-что-то страшное.

[kidheart]

A show of trust. He won't drop her, and she won't electrocute him. I love the energy felt in this one, between their defensive motions and the manic energy of the spectator.

[evil-little-rodentdeactivated]

friendly spectator zo from the campaign im in. if anything happened to him i would kill everyone in this room and then myself

[hyydraworks]

From sketches to underglaze, fingers crossed for the final firing, hoping this spectator’s purple comes out 🤞

[loulouhattie]

[jellykoala]

Attempt at sculpting a Spectator

I was feeling kinda meh about it till I put some paint on. Thought about making a base for it but it fits too perfectly on the stalagmites I made before ✌️

Its name is Mike for obvious reasons lmaoo

[boyswillbebutch]

Organized my ibispaint folders. Only took me 3 hours,,,,i’ve been sitting in shrimp posture that entire time

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

3-4 ft (1-1.2 m) peaceful guards who can paralyze and create food/water. Also speaks telepathically, and tend to be chatty and friendly and contemplative! These ones actually befriend people! And do I even need to mention the giant tongue?

[mothfeathersfolkart]

A rusty skitch. I'll try and do better.

Oh yeah his spectentacles look like that because they are super stretchy and elastic and can do that snail extendo turgidity thing

[adndmonsteraday]

Spectators were extraplanar beholderkin native to the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus. The five-eyed entities were philosophical creatures often summoned to serve as watchful guardians.

Spectators had 3‒4 ft (0.91‒1.2 m) bodies, which weighed 250 lb (110 kg). They had four eyestalks, as opposed to the typical ten of normal beholders, with two located on either side of the upper half of the body. A spectator's skin was thick, lumpy, and rubbery, with numerous blood vessels visible on the surface. Like regular beholders, they had a single main eye in the middle of their floating bodies.

Spectators were vigilant and trustworthy, and could be relied upon to protect items in all but the most dire situations. They possessed two methods of behavior: a free-thinking mode and a contemplative mode. Free-thinking spectators would wander the planes at will, openly, if cautiously, chatting with those they came across. In their contemplative state, they were philosophers who would spend over a century pondering vast philosophical questions. Approached in this state they were still friendly and enjoyed discourse but would soon after request to be left alone so as to continue philosophizing. Years of isolation could result in spectators gaining personality quirks such as referring to themselves in the third person or adopting the voice of its summoner.

Spectators disliked guarding things for lesser lifeforms, which most mortal summoners would qualify as, and would only do so hesitantly. After promising to do so, however, their loyalty to their summoner was absolute, guarding the object in question until their time was up. They prided themselves on their guardianship and refused commands to do anything else until asked to guard something else or they were allowed to leave a summoner's grasp. The greatest pleasure for most spectators was thwarting the forces of chaos and in defending valuable objects. A spectator's strong sense of justice dictated that creatures who did not intrude upon their duties had a right to live, and they would never attack a helpless opponent unless attacked via sly or cruel means. Killing creatures for any reason outside of duty or self-defense would lead most spectators to commit suicide in distress via self-imposed brain overload.

Somewhat mild and even-tempered, they were even known to form friendships with other creatures, a trait that no other beholderkin or true beholder ever displayed.

Their main eye could turn spells back at the caster so long as they were in the nearby area and shooting at its face. The four eyestalks of a spectator could cause effects like the spells paralyze, inflict moderate wounds, fear, and confusion. They were capable of creating enough food and water to sustain themselves for one day, every day, meaning that they would never go hungry, and could also planeshift once per day.

When trapped within the bounds of a ritual circle created with beholder eyes, a spectator was powerless to use any ability besides levitation.

Spectators were peaceful and would never attack unless seriously provoked. When not guarding something, if they were attacked by any opponent powerful enough to harm them, they would typically flee. Spectators only willingly fought against those who disturbed what they were guarding, those who persistently pestered them, and other spectators. The methods used to repel foes would become more drastic as the battle continued, starting with fear and confusion and escalating into paralysis and enervation.

Though they could planeshift, they would only do so to retreat if injured in all eyes to the point of non-functionality, thus leaving them incapable of guarding their wards. If chased after this point, they would defend themselves by biting at their pursuer. They would return one day after leaving, and in any circumstance, their ward's disappearance would prompt them to return to Nirvana for good.

Spectators hailed from Mechanus and could be summoned to the Material Plane by a ritual requiring at least 4 beholder eyes. Using more eyes would increase the chance of the ritual's success, with 10 ensuring completion. The beholder eyes would be ground into a powder, burnt until the powder was nothing but black dust, then doused with oil, set on fire and placed in a special magic circle. Using the dust as the component a wizard would create a one way gate to Nirvana and call the monster in a way similar to the summon monster spell. Once summoned this way, spectators would be placed in their contemplative condition, and peacefully reside for 101 years in an approximate 100 yard area from where they were summoned to. No one but the summoner and beings stated to be allowed during the initial dealing would be permitted to touch or enter the area it was summoned to guard.

Spectators were organized into an upper and lower class. The lower class resided alone in small vertical caves in the modron disk dug out using their mouths. The upper class worked as guards for important modron and were educated to uphold the lawful ideals of Mechanus. Lower class spectators tended to drift between lawful good and lawful neutral, while upper class were strictly lawful neutral. The only way to become an upper class spectator was to capture and deliver a rogue modron to local Mechanus authorities. The position was not permanent and would be revoked in a spectator's old age when they could no longer fight, forcing them to retire to their caves. High leveled modrons, and even spectators themselves would bargain with the bodies of slain spectators to be used for research by others.

Some spectators served certain deities, including Gaerdal Ironhand, Gorm Gulthyn, Helm, and Savras. They were often employed by the Church of Helm, and watched over their temples as ever-vigilant guardians.

Spectators were smaller than regular beholders and as such required less food, although a full meal for them was still enough to make a large meal for 6 people. They could simply conjure the large quantity of food needed for them to live each day, although they were willing to share with visitors. When spectators slept they drifted aimlessly around a given area.

In the middle of their brains laid a small magical organ shaped like a sphere, that granted them the ability to fly, although it could not be magically disabled. A spectator's brain generated magical energy with psionic power, but was not strong enough to grant it psychic abilities. It created both magical and anti-magical force, with the former used to power its eye rays and the latter used for its spell turning. Spectators possessed a perfect internal clock, able to tell exactly when a certain amount of time had elapsed with extreme precision. Because spectators came from Nirvana, they were best adapted to equal amounts of environmental factors, (light and dark, heat and cold, liquid and solid terrain etc).

So long as they were within Mechanus, spectators possessed a rapid regenerative ability capable of repairing lost structures and recovering from general damage.

Newborn spectators arose from the eyes of their recently deceased 'parent'. Each was born with the ability to levitate, along with the eye ray power of whatever stalk they came from. One spectator had the ability to create food and water and shared it with its siblings. Every 3 months a new eye power would be gained and the spectators would grow larger. After a year passed, each spectator would leave their birth home and create their own lair. Once a spectator became 1,000 years old the cycle would reverse in a sense, with their eyes becoming progressively larger and their body slowly turning smaller at the same points in time that the new spectators would gain eye powers. Nine months after their thousandth birthday, the spectator would grow 4 tiny eye stalks on each of its old eye stalks and 3 months afterwards would die, causing the cycle to begin anew. Neither newborn, nor elderly spectators could be summoned via the ritual.

In 1370 DR, Waterdeep was briefly plagued by a small army of spectators who were sent there to "guard" powerful and notable enchanted items, such as Khelben Arunsun's Blackstaff and Piergeiron Paladinson's Halcyon. The spectators caused panic and chaos in the city and guarded the entrance to Undermountain. Khelben deducted that Ibbalar Thrul, a disgraced wizard and businessman, was likely behind the attack. He sent one of his agents into the wizard's lair in Undermountain. Subsequently, the summoning portal was sealed, and Ibbalar's attack was stopped.

The annals of Helm's church claimed that the God of Guardians, in times long past, created the spectators as the ultimate guardians to assist his fallible human followers, only for various dark gods to corrupt them into beholders and their various kin. Followers of Bane meanwhile purported that their own tyrannical deity made the eye tyrants as the ultimate rulers, and that spectators were Helm's inferior imitations. Followers of Helm tried to destroy beholders and kin whenever possible, while Bane's returned the favor regarding spectators.

Aloxag: the spectator bodyguard in service of the Red Wizard and an apprentice of Halaster Blackcloak, Ibbalar Thrul in the mid-14th century DR.

Source: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Spectator

[thefandomcassandra]

[Kisses Us on the frontal lobe] ILYSM

[botblues]

Eyes of the Beholder

"A beholder sees in all directions. It is always looking for concealed attackers. Even when it sleeps, its smaller eyes remain open, scanning its lair for threats. If a human acted this way, the constant vigilance and lack of truly peaceful rest would lead to a dangerous level of psychosis, but a beholder’s mind accepts this attitude as normal and necessary—it is always alert to the possibility of assassination or betrayal by unknown threats that stand ready to pounce on the beholder the instant it lets its guard down."

– Volothamp "Volo" Geddarm, Volo's Guide to Monsters

[averagemrfox]

Dice are fucking magic I think

@kegbasher

[thesnacken]

My controversial take ig is that while DnD isn't a spectacular system, preferring it is infinitely less dunk-worthy than this surge of people making shitting on DnD a pillar of their personal philosophy.

Being a dick about the game everyone is enjoying isn't going to make any other game better.

[hyydraworks]

Next Etsy Update: Thursday April 4th at 5pm ET

Alright thanks to everyone for your infinite patience 😭 and apologies for lying and saying this would be in March. This one’s going to have a lot of new and returning critters, the first round of year of the dragon figurines and lots of Baldur’s gate mugs including new tumblers!

Really excited and will be sure to post up pics of all the other new stuff coming as well!

[rackartyg]

hot take but radiant retort is just not fun. it's not a fun mechanic.