


I hope this gave you some insight into the Death Ray in DnD 5e, and gave some ideas on how to describe should (and it should!) it show up in your games. So as always, I aim to cover some specifics that I find cool within the DnD world with these shorter posts. You take 55 necrotic damage, which drops your now lifeless corpse to the ground with an echoing thud.” Wrap Up Before you get a chance to think, a beam of black energy streaks out from one of the stalks and strikes you directly in the chest. The light bounces off of its huge center eye, and then off of all the eyes in each stack coming from its grotesque body. As you wave the orange glow of your touch around, you see a strange floating object meander slowly toward you. “As the magic dissipates on the arcane lock with an audible crackle, wondering what treasures might be hidden in these dusty old halls, you walk into the chamber which hasn’t been looked upon for centuries. Today in the Lair, the Barbarian is going to give you loads of information about beholdershistory, lore, all that good stuffand advice for using them in your game. Let’s say that we have an old Wizard player, who isn’t very dexterous, come up against a beholder, who happens to fire its beam at the old man. If you prefer to watch (or listen) to the video version of this article, you can do so here: The Barbarian’s D&D 5e Beholder Guide. So this big flying meatball fires a ray of pure necrotic energy at its target, what would that look like? This little beam also has the added benefit that if it drops a target to 0 hit points, instead of going unconscious, the target instead just straight up dies.Ĭonsidering the damage that it does, this beam mixed in with the others can make for a lot of damage going out to the targets, easily wiping someone out. If they fail, they take 10d10 necrotic damage. When this beam of pure necrotic damage (read more about necrotic damage here) is fired from a beholders eyestalk, the target must make a Dex Saving Throw (read more about saving throws here). The ray we’re interested in today is the Death Ray. The beholder is a creature that looks like a floating meatball, this meatball has a whole load of eyestalks attached to it, and from its eyestalks, it can shoot rays of magic. This ability is one of 10 abilities that are part of most beholders’ arsenal. So try to contain your excitement as we discuss it. You can shoot the following eye rays, each with a range of 60 feet. Thanks to your beholder heritage, you have grown three eye rays emerging from your head. You have a flying (hovering) speed of 25 feet. In today’s post, Death Ray in DnD 5e, we’ll be taking a brief look at a very iconic ability, Death Ray, from an iconic DnD creature, the beholder! Beholder Spawn have a similar size and build to humans. Hey y’all, hope all’s been well for everyone.
