In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the spectator is a type of aberration related to the beholder.
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Publication history
The spectator first appeared in the adventure module The Secret of Bone Hill (1981), and then appeared in the original first edition Monster Manual II (1983). The spectator was further detailed, along with the searechter (marine spectator) in Dragon #139 (November 1988).
The spectator appeared in second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for the Forgotten Realms setting under the "beholder-kin" entry in Monstrous Compendium Volume Three: Forgotten Realms Appendix (1989), and reprinted under the "beholder" entry in the Monstrous Manual (1993). The spectator also appeared in I, Tyrant (1996).
The spectator appeared in third edition for the Forgotten Realms under the "beholderkin" entry in Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn (2001). The spectator also appeared under the "beholderkin" entry in Lords of Madness (2005).
Description
A spectator is an extraplanar relative of the beholder with four eyestalks. Somewhat mild and even-tempered, spectators have even been known to form friendships with other creatures, a trait that no other beholderkin or true beholder ever displays.