{"id":39152,"date":"2023-03-07T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39152"},"modified":"2023-02-28T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:10:09","slug":"behold-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/behold-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold: the Beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dnddclngbeh6.jpg\" alt=\"prokopetz says &quot;I kind of love that D&D's most iconic monster is this giant floating ball of eyes and teeth from a realm of inchoate madness beyond time and space that brings low entire kingdoms with its merest gaze, but rather than being unfathomably alien in its mentality, it's just really racist. It's like the game's designers came up with the most Lovecraftian monster they could possibly imagine, then gave it the personality of the actual HP Lovecraft.&quot;\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Like today's review said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/dnddclngbeh.php\">the Beholder<\/a> is the most parodied of <i>D&D<\/i>'s classic creations. For instance, here's <i>Big Trouble in Little China<\/i>'s \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/funko_ra_btlc1glp.php\">Defender<\/a>\":<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dnddclngbeh7.jpg\" alt=\"a creature that is blatantly a Beholder, no matter what it's called\" width=\"550\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Here, from the card game <i>Munchkin<\/i>, is the dreaded Level 10 Floating Nose:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dnddclngbeh8.jpg\" title=\"vulnerable to the Potion of Halitosis\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>And of course, even the nerds at <i>Futurama<\/i> got in on it:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_H18JLCYj0g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"My Toy Shrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/my-toy-shrine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">My Toy Shrine<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Christians vs. He-Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/christians-vs-he-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Christians vs. He-Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Venger's stats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/dungeons-dragons-vengers-stats\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Venger's stats<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #230\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-230\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #230<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Cyberpunk: Never Fade Away\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/cyberpunk-never-fade-away\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cyberpunk: Never Fade Away<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Tiamat addendum Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Zarak evolution Dungeons &#038; Dragons Gelatinous Cube addendum Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Elkhorn evolution Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Bobby and Uni's stats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[263,167],"class_list":["post-39152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-videos","tag-dd","tag-futurama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39162,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39152\/revisions\/39162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}