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Here I am with a new conversion... and this time, I'm about to tackle the Beholderkin from the 3.5 book Lords Of Madness. Of course, I'm going to take some liberties and try to put my own spin on them, but overall, I'll try to keep these conversions as campaign-neutral as possible. Clearly, you guys are free to adapt the lore to your own game world.

The Creature Codex and the Creature Chronicle have already written up two great PF1e conversions of the Beholder here and here. I'd really reccomend you check them out!

With that out of the way, here I give you the first of my Beholderkin conversions - the Spectator.

BEHOLDERKIN, SPECTATOR

Image (c) Wizards Of The Coast, from Lords of Madness, author J. Nelson

This spherical creature’s leathery body is crowned with four slender eyestalks, each terminating in a small lidless eye. A fifth eye, much larger than these, is located on the front of the sphere, above a toothy maw.

SPECTATOR               CR 5

XP 1’600

LN Medium Aberration (beholderkin, extraplanar) 

Init +8; Senses all-around vision, darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +18

DEFENSE

AC 18, touch 15, flat-footed 13 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge, +3 natural)

hp 51 (6d8+24), planar fast healing 2

Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +6

OFFENSE

Speed 5 ft., fly 30 ft. (good)

Melee bite +9 (1d8+1)

Ranged eye ray +9 touch (see below)

Special Attacks eye rays, spell turning

Spell-like Abilities (CL 7th, concentration +9)

     3/day - create food and water

     1/day - plane shift (self only)

STATISTICS

Str 13, Dex 18, Con 18, Int 15, Wis 12, Cha 15

Base Atk +5; CMB +6; CMD 20

Feats Alertness (B), Dodge, Flyby Attack, Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse

Skills Diplomacy +8, Fly +14, Intimidate +12, Knowledge (planes) +12, Perception +18, Sense Motive +14, Stealth +10, Survival +10; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception

Languages Common, Beholder; telepathy (see below).

Special Qualities beholderkin traits, guardian creature, naturally buoyant

ECOLOGY

Environment any (Axis)

Organization solitary, pair or cluster (3-6)

Treasure standard

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Beholderkin Traits (Ex/Su) Spectators are beholderkin, creatures that are distantly related to true beholders. Beholderkin have a very wide range of appearances and abilities. Not all share the xenophobia of true beholders, though most are still evil and cruel in nature.

Creatures of the beholderkin subtype share the following traits:

All-around Vision (Ex): A beholderkin sees in all directions at once and cannot be flanked.

Eye Rays (Su): All beholderkin can manifest dangerous magical effects by firing a beam from its smaller eyes. See individual beholderkin’s description for details.

Eye Rays (Su) A spectator can fire one eye ray as a standard action each round. Treat these as ranged touch attacks with a range of 60 feet and no range increment. A spectator cannot choose to use the same eye ray two rounds in a row. A creature struck must make a saving throw (DC 15) or be affected as by a spell at CL 7th, except that it only effects the target struck. The save DC is Charisma based.

- Fatigue: The target must make a Fortitude save or become fatigued. A fatigued creature that fails to save against this effect becomes exhausted.

- Inflict Moderate Wounds: This ray works like the spell, causing 2d8+7 points of damage (Will half).

- Hold Monster: The target must succeed on a Will save or be affected as though by the spell.

- Telepathy: A spectator can communicate telepathically with its target for the round. As a free action, a spectator can make a suggestion (as the spell; Will negates) to the creature it is currently telepathically speaking to.

Guardian Creature (Ex) A spectator beholderkin counts as an outsider for the purposes of summoning spells such as planar ally or planar binding.

Naturally Buoyant (Ex) A spectator's body is naturally buoyant. This buoyancy allows it to fly at a speed of 30 ft. with good maneuvrability and grants it a permanent feather fall effect (as the spell) with personal range.

Planar Fast Healing (Ex) A spectator beholderkin's fast healing only functions when the creature is on its native plane of Axis.

Spell Turning (Su) A spectator's central eye produces a 90-foot cone. Once per round, the spectator can attempt to turn back upon the caster a single spell or spell-like ability targeting it. In order to turn back a spell, the spectator must succeed at a concentration check with a DC equal to 15 + the caster level of the original caster. If this check is successful, the original caster suffers the effects of the spell as if it had been casted by the spectator itself. Only single-target spells that explicity target the spectator may be reflected this way, and only one each round. Area effect spells may not be reflected.

Spectators are extraplanar beholderkin native to the plane of Axis, and are known to be among the most reasonable and moderate of the beholderkin. They are often summoned to the Material Plane by arcanists who need a reliable guardian that does not require a great deal of resources to protect a valuable object or place, though they are not enthusiastic of working for humanoids or other creatures of the Material Plane. However, they possess a sense of duty and a loyalty to their summoner that is unusual amongst beholderkin, and they pride themselves on their guardianship abilities.

A spectator's bizzarre behavior manifests in two different personalities that share the same consciousness. Under normal circumstances, a spectator tends to be open, if cautious, and willing to chat with those it comes across. However, they can slip into a more introverted state of mind, where they spend a long time, possibly even decades, pondering philosophical questions and contemplating mysteries. A spectator that is left in isolation for a long time guarding a charge may develop some unexpected quirk - such as talking about itself in third person, or change their voice to resemble that of its summoner.

Unusually pacifistic for beholderkin standards, spectators only fight to protect their charges or their own lives. Unless guarding something, they tend to avoid combat by flying away or using plane shift to return to Axis. If protecting an item, or if fighting becomes necessary, a spectator will typically start by using its fatigue and telepathy eye rays to incapacitate its opponents, usually throwing in a suggestion in order to convince the opponent to leave it alone. Only in the face of stubborn intruders will the spectator resort to lethal force, paralyzing its enemies and blasting them with negative energy. They will try to keep obvious spellcasters within the reflective cone from their central eye.

These huge, black-skinned tubers are among the few edible vegetables native to the Elemental Plane of Mud, and have evolved defenses to account for this. Tall and wide as the average humanoid, oblivion yams have soft reddish flesh within that has a starchy taste. They are best cooked, as raw their flesh is quite hard.

Oblivion yams grow leafy stalks above ground level when sedentary, and tolerate waterlogged conditions well; however, when threatened, the tuber breaks off from these stalks to burrow away from would-be attackers. If they cannot escape, they fight by spraying a complex acid in precise bursts from the broken stump of their stalk. Left to escape, oblivion yam stalks grow back at a ferocious rate, growing taller than a standard humanoid within only a few days.

[As I was uploading these, I was thinking about a cool encounter to use them in. An evil nymph's lake surrounded by a couple of spores plus their sporelings. The nymph's song lures people in, the spores kill and eat them, the nymph gets their stuff. Except apparently nymphs aren't IN fifth edition! I mean, I can hazard a few guesses as to why, but dude. I'm sure someone else (several someones probably) has made a version, but it's stuck in my head now so y'all will see my take pretty soon.]

- Art Credit to Edward Delandre

With a shudder of the earth, what first appeared to be an ordinary tombstone suddenly bursts upward from the ground to reveal a large stone body caked in mud and gravedirt. It grips a large shovel and advances with lumbering, deliberate footsteps.  The cherubic face of a stone angel peers outward with hollow eyes from beneath the base of its tombstone "head", a mantle of dried and wilted roses adorning its shoulders.

Graveyard Angel Large Construct, Unaligned ----------------- Armor Class: 17 Hit Point: 135 (15d10+45) Speed: 30ft ----------------- STR      DEX      CON     INT      WIS       CHA 18(+4)   15(+2)   16(+3)   3(-1)   11(+0)     1(-5) ----------------- Proficiency Bonus: +3 Damage Resistances: Necrotic Damage Immunities: Poison, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't Adamantine Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned Senses: Darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 10 Languages: Understands the language of its creator but cannot speak Challenge: 5 ----------------- Aura of Fear:  Any creature hostile to the graveyard angel that starts its turn within 20 feet of it must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw, unless the angel is incapacitated. On a failed save, the creature is frightened until the start of its next turn. If a creature's saving throw is successful, the creature is immune to the angel’s Aura of Fear for the next 24 hours.

Brute: A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the graveyard angel hits with it (included in the attack).

False Appearance: While the graveyard angel remains motionless and buried in the ground up to its head, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary tombstone.

Magic Resistance. The graveyard angel has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Turning Vulnerability: The graveyard angel counts as an undead for the purpose of a cleric’s or paladin’s Turn Undead feature. It cannot be destroyed by the Destroy Undead feature. ----------------- ACTIONS Multiattack: The graveyard angel makes two melee attacks.

Spade (Melee Weapon Attack): +7 to hit, reach 5ft; one target; Damage (2d8+4) slashing damage.

Slam (Melee Weapon Attack): +7 to hit, reach 5ft; one target; Damage (2d6+4) bludgeoning damage.

Sudden Emergence: While the graveyard angel is partially buried, it can choose to ambush its targets by bursting upward from the ground to attack. When it does, it also bombards its target with a shower of heavy dirt and stone. Each creature within 10 feet of the graveyard angel when it emerges must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d12 bludgeoning damage on a failure or half as much on a success. Additionally, the ground in that area becomes difficult terrain until cleared. Each 5-foot-square portion of the area requires at least 1 minute to clear by hand.

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Church Golems: Graveyard angels are a type of construct often utilized by churches and wealthy estates to guard the dead and their keepsakes from the depredations of graverobbers. The methods used to construct them are similar to those used in the creation of true golems, but the angel lacks much of a golem’s immunities against hostile magic. That said, graveyard angels can also be constructed in greater numbers owing to their (comparatively) lesser creation costs, making them highly suitable for guarding churchyards and private cemeteries held on wealthy estates.

Guardians of the Dead: Each graveyard angel is programmed to guard an object or area when created, and once set, this command cannot be changed. Typically these areas are graveyards interred with the remains of wealthy nobles in order to prevent would-be-graverobbers and necromancers from defiling the dead.  Graveyard angels are often given specific parameters concerning whom to ignore and whom to attack, but since they have no special form of detection, such restrictions can be overcome with disguises if the parameters are known.

Caterpillars of Change are strange fey creatures who inhabit the Feywild. Immensely old and wise, these creatures have lived through countless lives and reincarnations as other fey creatures, coming into their current form of a giant blue hookah smoking caterpillar. These creatures are highly sought for their wisdom, but at the same time are quite dangerous, not because you may lose your life talking to them, but because you may lose your identity.

Catrpillar's of change bristle at the idea of a static existence, they believe that growth cannot exist without change, and that stability is stagnation. Therefore, their only real interest is to transform any living creature they meet into someone entirely new. employing their enchanted Hookah, Caterpillars of change begin by muddling the minds of those who approach, making them temporarily forget their identities while engaging them in idle conversation about the nature of identity and other philosophical musings. Those who fail to succumb to the Caterpillar's haze are dealt with with more potent psychic attacks and direct shots of smoke from their magic Hookah. Once a victim has their sense of self successfully eroded away, the Caterpillar wraps them in clouds from their hookah, and eventually an entirely new being emerges. Caterpillars of change can use this cocoon on themselves as well, forcing a quick transformation to escape death by booting themselves into a future life.