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Oooh, so cool, a D&D Beholder! Liz Pope Dreamspinner Inc.

Beholder? Now there's a name I haven't heard since the mid 1970's! I recall, at the time, it was THE bad ass monster in D&D. Oh man, that seems soooo long ago! I haven't play D&D in more than 20 years.... God, I feel old :( -SMT

hey I have a question about this. Is it legal to sell a DnD character? The reason I'm asking is because I modeled a stirge like creature and would love to sell him or it too. Awesome beholder by the way :)

Well as far as I could tell, this is not specifically a DnD character. Its in countless computer games and publications that have no connection to TSR. So I dunno the answer to that.

Well it's very cool none the less so I'll be buying it! :)

It's similar but not identical and it's not called a beholder. I'll be getting this beastie too. Liz Pope Dreamspinner Inc.

TSR sold Dungeons and Dragons to Wizards of the Coast, the people who do Magic: the Gathering. I know that they have opened the rights to Dungeons and Dragons so that people can write stuff for it (like game campaigns and such) without paying any kind of royalty fees, so I can't see why selling D&D character models would be a problem. :)

Just got my beholder How's about ya'll?

WOW! I mean WOOOOW! This is a fantastic model. This is my favourite D&D creature. I like this one better than the one used in the Dungeons & Dragons movie.

yeah he's definately a good looking creature :) gonna be making more cool beasties? AR

yes... more are on the way, but I don't want to give away too many things hehe.

hey Mallen? you ROCK! got mine ;) MORE!!!!!!! :)

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely beautiful. Great work.

Almost all of the monsters in the original Monster Manuel by Gary Gygax were "ideas" borrowed from other sources. In some cases he faced copyright problems, such as with the estate of Lovecraft, and so you do not see the Lovecraftian Mythos monsters in the 2nd edition onward. However, since Gygax himself borrowed most of his monsters, and since we see a virtual plethora of "beholder-like" creations elsewhere as well, I am going to guess the origination of the monster itself, it's likeness, is public domain. BTW, it is a LOVELY beastie... would be the pride and joy of every Dungeon Master's heart... make more like him :)

{TSR sold Dungeons and Dragons to Wizards of the Coast} Not exactly. After a few years of bad management decisions and the periodical decline of the gaming industry (it seems to run on a three to five year cycle - one year there is a hot new game out, it's still big a year later, it fades over the next two, then something new and big comes out), they were facing bankruptcy. Two companies stepped forward and offered to buy them out of debt in order to take over their operations - Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. About 18 months later, WotC faced the exact same financial problems TSR had (they'd paid TSR's debts, then had nothing left to pay their own!), and Hasbro again stepped forward, adding yet another company to their massive empire. {Almost all of the monsters in the original Monster Manual by Gary Gygax were "ideas" borrowed from other sources. In some cases he faced copyright problems, such as with the estate of Lovecraft, and so you do not see the Lovecraftian Mythos monsters in the 2nd edition onward. } The Beholder was originally a pun (based on the "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" saying), and one of the VERY few original creatures in the D&D cannon. Most of the creatures E. Gary Gygax made use of were either from "common" mythology (Catoblepas, dragon, the undead, etc.) - and thus assumed in public domain - or were "borrowed" from popular fiction (the AD&D troll came from "Three Hearts and Three Lions" by Poul Anderson, and the Mind Flayer is - by his own admission - borrowed from the horrors of H.P. Lovecraft). There are a few cases where Gygax took a name from mythology and created his own creature for it as well (the named Demons and Devils - i.e., Dispater, Orcus, Juiblex, Demogorgon, et al all exist in mythology but not in the forms he presented).