Sightseer Traits

• Creature Type: Aberration
• Size: Small (about 2-3 feet tall)
• Speed: 5 feet

As a Sightseer, you have these special traits.

Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 120 feet.

Eye Stalks. You have Advantage on sight based Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Natural Armor. When you aren’t wearing armor, your
base AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your
natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you
wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s
benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Bite. When you use your Unarmed Strike and deal damage,
you can choose to bite with your toothy maw. You deal Piercing damage equal to 1d6 plus your Strength modifier instead of the normal damage of an Unarmed Strike.

Kinetic Ray. You know the Mage Hand cantrip. You can
cast it without Verbal components. Intelligence, Wisdom,
or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell
(choose the ability when you select the species).

Tiusium Glands. You have a Flying Speed of 25 feet, and
can hover. You can’t use this flying speed if you’re wearing medium or heavy armor, or if you exceed your maximum
Carry Capacity.

Void Blood. You automatically succeed on saving throws against the effects of extreme cold and heat.

Becoming a Beholder...

Beholder Class Features

As a Beholder, you gain the following class features when you reach the specified Beholder levels. These features are listed in the Beholder Features table.

Dreams

Level 3: Beholder Subclass

You gain a Beholder subclass of your choice. The Eye of Death, and Ultimate Orb subclasses are detailed after this class's description. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Beholder levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Beholder level or lower.

Level 4: Ability Score Improvement

You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Beholder levels 8, 12, and 16.

Level 4: Benign Visage

You may take the Magic Action to disguise yourself into an unassuming humanoid form. You determine the skin color, sex, height, and weight, and species of this disguise. You assume this form every time you use this feature, but none of your game statistics change. Your equipment changes size and shape to match the humanoid form, but you are always at least wearing traveler's clothes.

To discern that you are not a real humanoid, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your Eye Ray save DC.

You stay disguised for 1 hour, or until you end it as a Bonus Action, have the Incapacitated condition, take at least 10 damage, or die.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Level 5: Sphere of Many Eyes

Your body and mind evolves. You gain the following benefits:

• Bulbous. Your size becomes Medium.
• Sharp Teeth. You roll one additional damage die when using your Bite attack.
• Sharp Sight. The range of your eye rays increase to 60 feet.
• Thick Skin. You gain a +1 bonus to your Armor Class.

Level 6: Restless Eyes

You always have one eye open. You can take the Search action as a Bonus Action. Magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a Long Rest in 6 hours if you spend those hours in an inactive, resting state. During this time, you appear asleep but remain conscious.

Level 10: Second Beam

When you take the Magic Action to fire a ray, you may use two eye rays in the same action.

Level 11: All Seeing Eye

You gaze beyond the veil. You can cast the Scrying spell, you ignore Verbal and Material components for this spell. Wisdom is the spellcasting ability for this spell.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Level 13: Eye Tyrant

You evolve into a true beholder. You gain the following benefits:

• Voluminous . Your size becomes Large.
• Sharper Teeth. You roll one more additional damage die when using your Bite attack.
• Honed Sight. The range of your eye rays increase to 90 feet.
• Intense Stare. Your Eye Ray's saving throw DC increases by +1.

Level 15: Eldritch Poise

You possess an eerie confidence. You gain proficiency in Charisma saving throws.

Level 17: Antimagic Cone

Your main eye can deactivate magic with your uncanny powers. You can take a Bonus Action and expend 3 Eye Ray Charges to emit an antimagic wave in a 60-foot Cone. Until the start of your next turn, that area acts as an Antimagic Field spell, and that area works against your own Eye Rays.

Level 19: Epic Boon

You gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Boon of Truesight is recommended.

Level 20: One Eye to Rule Them All

You become the pinnacle of beholder kind. You gain the following benefits.

Hyper Beams. Whenever you roll Initiative and have no Eye Ray Charges left, you regain 1d4 expended uses of it.

Third Beam. When you take the Magic Action to fire a ray, you may use three eye rays in the same action.

Perfect Sight. The range of your eye rays increase to 120 feet.

High Velocity. Your Flight speed increases by 15 feet.

Charm Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 2

The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw. It does so with Advantage if you or your allies are fighting it. On a failed save, the target has the Charmed condition for 1 hour or until you or your allies damage it. The Charmed creature is Friendly to you. When the effect, the target knows it was Charmed by you.

Confusion Ray

• Charge Cost: 1

The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save it can't take reactions until the end of its next turn. On its turn, the target can't move, and it uses its action to make a melee or ranged attack against a randomly determined (by the GM) creature within range. If the target can't attack, it does nothing on its turn.

Death Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 13+
• Charge Cost: 2

The target must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 4(BD) Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The target dies if the ray reduces it to 0 hit points.

Disintegration Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 2

The target must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 2(BD) Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The target dies if the ray reduces it to 0 hit points. If the target is a nonmagical object or a creation of magical force, a 10-foot Cube of it disintegrates into dust.

Fear Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 2

The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or drop whatever it is holding and have the Frightened condition for 1 minute. A Frightened creature takes the Dash action and moves away from you by the safest route on each of its turns unless there is nowhere to move. If the creature ends its turn in a space where it doesn’t have line of sight to you, the creature makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the effect ends on that creature.

Frost Ray

• Charge Cost: 0

The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1(BD) Cold damage, and its Speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

Glimmer Ray

• Charge Cost: 0

The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1(BD) Radiant damage, and has the Blinded condition until the start of your next turn.

Heat Ray

• Charge Cost: 0

The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1(BD) Fire damage. A flammable object hit by this ray starts burning if it isn’t being worn or carried.

Lightning Ray

• Charge Cost: 0

The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1(BD) Lightning damage, and it can’t make Opportunity Attacks until the start of its next turn.

Paralyzing Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 2

The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target has the Paralyzed condition for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, the paralyzed target repeats the save, ending the effect on a success.

Petrification Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 13+
• Charge Cost: 2

The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target has the Restrained condition. At the end of its next turns, the restrained target repeats the save. On another failed save, the target is Petrified for 1 minute, or ending the effect on a success.

Psionic Ray

• Charge Cost: 0

The target must succeed on a Intelligence saving throw or take 1(BD) Psychic damage, and subtract 1d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.

Regeneration Ray

• Charge Cost: 2

A creature you target regains a number of Hit Points equal to 1(BD) plus your Charisma modifier.

Slowing Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 1

The target must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 1(BD) Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed, Until the end of the target's next turn, the target's Speed is halved; the target can't take Reactions; and it can take either an Action or a Bonus Action on its turn, not both.

Sonic Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 1

The target must make a Constitution saving throw or take 2(BD) Thunder damage and has the Deafned conditon until the start of your next turn on a failed save or half as much damage and not Deafened on a successful one.

Telekinetic Ray

• Prerequisite: Level 13+
• Charge Cost: 1

You can try to move a Huge or smaller creature or object. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or you move it up to 30 feet in any direction within the eye eay's range. Objects automatically fail this saving throw if it isn't being worn or carried. Until the end of your next turn, the creature has the Restrained condition, and if you lift it into the air, it is suspended there. It falls at the end of your next turn unless you use this option on it again and it fails the save.

 If the object is worn or carried by a creature, that creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or you pull the object away and move it up to 30 feet in any direction within the Eye Ray's range.

Repulsion Ray

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• Prerequisite: Level 13+
• Charge Cost: 2

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The target fall upward and reach 100 feet above the ground, if it isn't anchored to the ground. The target can make a Dexterity saving throw to grab a fixed object it can reach, thus avoiding the fall upward.

If a ceiling or an anchored object is encountered in this upward fall, targets strike it just as they would during a downward fall. If an affected target reaches 100 feet without striking anything, it hovers there for 1 minute, after which the target falls downward.

Vanishing Ray

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• Prerequisite: Level 6+
• Charge Cost: 1

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The target has the Invisible condition for 10 minutes. The effect ends early immediately after the target makes an attack roll, deals damage, or casts a spell.

Wounding Ray

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• Charge Cost: 0

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The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1(BD) Necrotic damage, and it can’t regain Hit Points until the end of your next turn.

Sightseer Race

The sightseers instead gain the traits below.

Beholder Class

Starting equipment and Ability Score Improvement will be changed. The Epic Boon feature is removed.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.