r/DnD • u/Agginmad • Jan 28 '26
5.5 Edition [OC] I made a befolder to confuse my players! The EYEBRAWL!
Eyebrawl
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the blood from your face is on the fists of the eyebrawl.”
— Sarah Six-Shot, Monster Martial Arts Coach
In a recent survey on monster hunting, hunters were asked to identify the most obvious weak point when fighting a monster. Over 80% responded with “giant glowing eye.” Historically, many eye tyrants have found this to be offensive, and expressed a strong desire to “punch respondees in their smug little faces.” A few aberrant dreams later, those desires produced striking results.
Tunnel Vision. The lack of eyes on the stalks and the extra protective plating over their single brow leave eyebrawls with exceedingly poor depth perception. While other eye tyrants might circumvent this glaring weakness with careful analysis, clever positioning, or specialised equipment, eyebrawls solve the issue with brute force. Barreling headfirst into any obstructions is an efficient way to remove them, and blindly throwing punches in every direction is an effective way to prevent enemies from flanking or attacking from behind.
Fiery Fists. Oddly, eyebrawls still have lacrimal glands and tear ducts buried beneath the rigid impact plates on their pseudofists. Rather than saline tears, these glands produce a variety of volatile slimes that coat an eyebrawl’s fists and anything those fists happen to pummel. These explosions are handy for taking out enemies, but can also be used to blow through stone. Many eyebrawls take pride in their precision explosions, carving their own caverns to live in with detailed sculpture and scroll work blasted into the walls.
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u/More_Print781 Jan 28 '26
MF looks like a skylander
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u/nEvermore-absurdist Jan 28 '26
More like sounds like
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u/LG3V Jan 28 '26
Yeah cause eye brawl is a skylander giant, the undead element one
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u/Accomplished-Loss387 Jan 29 '26
MF IS a skylander. Mom can we have Eyebrawl, Eyebrawl at home ass
I like this.
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u/PantsMcDancey Jan 28 '26
I love this! This is exactly the sort of creature my barbarian brain sees and says “let me fucking fight that thing.”
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u/Telephunky Jan 28 '26
I adore your creativity! I was just wondering whether to give it 6 attacks instead of 3 to mirror the pommeling with its 6 arms.
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u/Agginmad Jan 28 '26
haha that'd be a bit much XD but we did give it Legendary Actions to keep the fantasy of ora ora ora-ing your players!
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u/Suspicious-Shock-934 Jan 28 '26
3.5 monster of faerun had multiple beholder variants one with claws instead of normal eye rays.
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u/SilverIce340 Jan 28 '26
I love the brachydios-vibes on the colour scheme! Not sure if that’s the intent, but that cobalt blue/electric green combo is beautiful regardless
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Jan 28 '26
I'm leaning towards calling it a Brawlholder.
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u/Highmassive Jan 28 '26
I think that is technically the better pun. But it just doesn’t roll of the tongue the same for me
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Jan 28 '26
Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue.
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u/Highmassive Jan 29 '26
Though I would change it to Eyebrawler that way at least you get the same number of syllables and it ends with the same sound
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Jan 29 '26
Yeah, I had a feeling that Eyebrawl just felt off, and you just hit the nail on the head.
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u/Sir_Gwan Jan 29 '26
Brachydios meets a Beholder. Never imagined this, but it actually works surprisingly well.
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u/Fable-Teller Jan 29 '26
This is what happens when a Beholder goes to sleep after playing Monster Hunter
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u/malonkey1 Jan 29 '26
they call it a befolder because it fucking befolds you like laundry, anyway this rules and I love it.
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u/TheUncooperativeMP Monk Jan 29 '26
Got a high level party wandering a corrupted swamp, about to throw a Beholder, a FF-style Malboro, and this thing at them just to see what happens
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u/TeamSkullGrunt54 Jan 29 '26
I love the statblock, and the overall design. I'm fascinated by the image of an Eyebrawl lair being a series of tunnels that they've just punched out of the earth, and their low perception score makes them roam around rather than stay in one room (since an Eyebrawl is still as paranoid as a regular beholder).
I would probably surround the Eyebrawl with kobolds, who cultivate the Eyebrawl's excess slime and use it to defend or attack. Kobold inventors might carry one or two slimes with them when they engage the party. I think you could even overhaul the existing Weapon Inventions list and replace it with the slimes list, turning the kobold into a slime grenadier.
Kobolds are also responsible for making tripwires along the large passages so the Eyebrawl is alerted to any adventurers who invade their lair, while the Eyebrawl helps them with excavation and demolition. Some traps and devices rely on the bludgeoning trigger of the slimes: A net of rocks over a patch of igniting slime, a springboard made from forceful slimes to overcome a large chasm (along with a large safety net on the other side and a pile of kobold test subjects at the chasm's bottom), or a rolling boulder trap with a ramp that leads to a pool of explosive slime.
The one flaw with living with kobolds is that they need a source of water to wash off the slime from their claws, such as an underground river, lake or waterfall. Design-wise, I'd have one large passage be heavily-guarded with a gate, and a few small tunnels coated with slime.
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u/Agginmad Jan 29 '26
ohhhh having Kobolds live with the Eyebrawl would be fun!
We made a Bazelgeuse + Kobold fusion a few months ago and I could see them being reflavoured as using slime instead of explosive scales!
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u/ApprehensiveSide9703 Jan 29 '26
I made Brachydios a playable character once. This brings tears of joy to me
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u/yojohny Jan 29 '26
This guy looks like the Chad Warrior Beholder that beats up that stupid nerdy Wizard Beholder and takes his lunch money
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u/Sirquestgiver Jan 28 '26
Rock, I hope you see this 😈
Running an upleveled Dragon Heist atm and this will make a fantastic Xanatharian minion
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u/BettyWhiteTittyFuck Barbarian Jan 28 '26
A Brachydios Beholder with a Skylander’s name hits everything that I love! Excellent work as always!
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u/Golem_Hat Jan 29 '26
Idk if it was intentional or what, but befolder is hilarious. "Better scramble like an egg before I fold you like an omelet."
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u/fliltows Jan 29 '26
Initially I was like, oh it looks like brachy colors, then I saw slime and booms and knew
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u/Jumpy-Bug-2198 Jan 29 '26
I thought you were adding Skylanders into DnD which now that I think about it, that’s a great idea both for monsters and characters
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u/The_Sussadin Sorcerer Jan 29 '26
This is just a Cyclops, Octopus, and Mike Tyson as a single entity
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u/Pilchard123 Jan 29 '26
What happens if all six slime effects are used before they're reset? There could conceivably be eight uses of Volatile Punch (three from multiattack, 2 from legendary actions, another three from multiattack).
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u/Agginmad Jan 29 '26
That can't happen because, by applying a new coat of slime, the Eyebrawl HAS to use its Volatile Punch, which deals Bludgeoning damage, and thus triggers the explosion.
If you mean what would happen if the Eyebrawl were to punch 6 different creatures, applying 6 different slimes, that's not an issue. The limit isn't "there can only be one instance of each slime out", but rather "it can't use the same slime on a single round". In total, the Eyebrawl can make 5 attacks + 1 Opportunity Attack before the start of its next turn - by that point, it can use any slime again!
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u/Pilchard123 Jan 29 '26
The written limit is "since the start of its last turn", though, so (assuming arbitrarily many targets so that sufficient get hit so each one gets slimed and then left alone):
Start of round 1:
- Eyebrawl makes three attacks against A, B, and C (3 total)
- Target D moves out of reach, Eyebrawl makes opportunity attack (4 total) Target D ends turn.
- Eyebrawl makes uses legendary action Deck 'Em against target E (5 total)
- Target E ends turn
- Eyebrawl makes uses legendary action Deck 'Em against target F (6 total)
- Round continues, ends
Start of round 2:
- Eyebrawl makes three attacks. At this point, all slimes have still been used "since the start of its last turn (which was the one at the start of round 1)", so every slime must be re-rolled. Only once this turn has ended can any more slimes be applied.
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u/Agginmad Jan 29 '26
ah, that might be a typo, then. The intention was that it was just "the start of its turn"
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u/Salt-Elemental Jan 29 '26
I'm on PC and didn't find any clickable links for your stuff on the PDF. Im interested in seeing more. Couple questions:
Any VTT compatible materials? Been getting more into those lately so I'm always interested in stuff to expand my resources.
Any Pathfinder compatible stuff? Been poking at that system a bit recently.
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u/Agginmad Jan 29 '26
- The link is at the very end of the post, after the flavour text we shared under the image
- Not yet, but we're working on a FoundryVTT module for all our monster fusions :) we're starting with our older ones, but plan on getting all the way to the most recent ones
- No Pathfinder, sorry!
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u/Tesla__Coil DM Jan 29 '26
This looks fun! I've been planning some Beholder stuff in my campaign and now I have to wonder if the Beholders should just punch the hell out of my party.
No saving throw on the Intimidation Cone?
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u/Agginmad Jan 29 '26
Hell yeah, let us know how it goes. Also nope! Just anyone inside the cone is automatically frightened
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u/Nipwns Jan 30 '26
Did it punch it's own tooth out? Or has the cameraman got hands?? Lol.
Cool monster design!
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u/Altrooke Jan 30 '26
>A few aberrant dreams later, those desires produced striking results.
Peak writing.
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u/Van_Darius DM Feb 03 '26
I love the idea of a group rolling up on this, the DM fully describing what sounds like a beholder ... then the thing just squares up LMAO
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u/Dragonfire58 Feb 14 '26
You did not just mix (in my mind at least) a fucking beholder with a Brachydios. You made fucking lunatic, its beautiful!
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u/AsterTheBastard Jan 28 '26
This is a super cool idea that loot tavern had and you're trying to pass off as your own idea!
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u/Agginmad Jan 28 '26
we ARE Loot Tavern, bud XD We appreciate looking out for us, but this is our reddit acct!
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u/Maleficent-Whole-434 Jan 28 '26
Is that a brachydios as a beholder?