D&D 30 Day Challenge, Day 16

Day 16: Favorite Monster (Aberration) 

This one is a toss-up between two favorites (both of which remain intellectual property of D&D and do not legally appear in any variants or retroclones) - the Beholder and the Mind Flayer!

      Here is the art from the AD&D (1st edition) Monster Manual for the Beholder. Awesome, right? And every one of those eyes has a different magical power! They kick ass!

     This is a depiction of a mind flayer at work devouring brains from the back cover of the classic AD&D (1st edition) module, Descent Into The Depths of the Earth. Mind Flayers are psionic (psychic) and they bore into your skull and eat your brains. How cool is that?