D&D Players Steal A Beholder Ship In Free Spelljammer Adventure
The third of four planned Spelljammer adventures for Dungeons & Dragons 5e is now available to download for free on the D&D Beyond website, and it gives players the chance to take a Beholder ship and use it as a vessel. Spelljammer is a D&D campaign set in space, which is coming to 5e in the upcoming Spelljammer: Adventures in Space set, involving sailing ships that use magic to fly through the cosmos.
Two of the scariest monsters in D&D are Beholders and Mind Flayers. There are certainly more powerful monsters in the game, but Beholders and Mind Flayers are more likely to show up in campaigns than something like a Tarrasque. The Beholders are scary due to their eye beams, which can kill a character through a single-blown saving throw, and Mind Flayers bring terror through their paralyzing mind blast ability. Spelljammer is a creepy campaign setting thanks to the Beholders and Mind Flayers possessing their own ships, sailing the stars in search of new victims.
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The third part of the Spelljammer Academy mini-campaign is now available to download for free on D&D Beyond. This chapter is called «Realmspace Sortie!» and it kicks off with the players needing to acquire a Beholder tyrant ship and install a spelljamming helm inside, so that it can be used as a spelljammer ship for an upcoming mission. The ship (luckily) doesn't have any Beholders, but it doesn't take long for the mission to go off the rails and for the party to be in danger.
In most D&D games, Beholders utterly despise others of their kind, as well as all other living things, which is why they're often presented as a solo threat, rather than the leader of an organization. The tyrant ships in
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