Beholderkin, Gouger

Created long ago by the evil race of Phaerimms, the gouger

was bred to stalk and kill normal beholders. However, they
did not keep close rein of the abominations they created
and they can sometimes be found spread across the
Underdark.
Bigger than a normal beholder, with ten vestigal,
twitching eye stalks devoid of magic power and four small
legs, dangling from the underside of their body, the gouger
is easily identified on sight, that is if its crazed screaming
hasn't given it away already. Most obvious is it's tongue,
stretching as far as 15 feet away from it's body, with two
shorter tongue spikes which it uses to gouge out the eyes of
other beholders.
It's main eye is almost the same as a beholder's, except
that the gouger's is always active, never stopped by the
gouger. It uses this to disable beholders of their magical
abilities so that it can close in to it, initially striking from a
distance with their tongue before getting closer to use their
powerful bite. Even when damaged, gougers have been
known to fly above their victim, striking them with their
tongue from a distance.
Bred to turn the beholder's eye powers against them,
gougers are terribly afraid of their master, and will willfully
hunt beholders and kill them without instruction. Despite
the fear of their creators, gougers are completely unwilling
to work with other creatures and will remain loyal to the
death.
However, not everyone is safe from gougers just
because they are not beholders, for they are ruthless
carnivores that will hunt any prey that they
decide to snack upon.

Beholderkin, Gouger Antimagic Cone. The gouger's central eye creates an

Large Aberration, neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armour)
Hit Points 225 (30d8 + 90)
Speed 10 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover)
STR DEX CON INT WIS
20 (+5) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 9 (-1) 9 (-1) 12 (+1)
Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +7, Wis +3
Skills Investigation +3, Nature +3, Perception +3,
Stealth +6
Condition Immunities charmed, prone
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14
Languages Common, Deep Speech, Undercommon
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)
area of antimagic, as in the antimagic field spell, in a
150 foot cone. At the start of each of its turns the
beholder decides which way the cone faces. The
cone is always active.
Eye Gouge. When the gouger’s tongue attack hits a
creature with eyes, it must succeed on a DC 17
CHA Dexterity saving throw or lose the use of one of its
eyes. If the creature is a beholder or beholderkin,
there is a 50% chance that the tongue hits the
central eye. If not, randomly determine which lesser
eye is struck.
Actions
Multiattack. The gouger makes three bite attacks or a
tongue attack and two bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
target. Hit: 23 (4d8 + 5) piercing damage.
Tongue. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 15 ft.,
one target. Hit: 16 (4d6 + 3) slashing damage. If the
gouger scores a critical hit, it rolls damage dice three
times, instead of twice.

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