Keith hypothesizes that their lightning breath is only used for self-defense. When prey draws near, they constrict then bite and swallow. They lair in places other beasts can’t reach, and use the dark and their darkvision to their advantage. The basic gist is that behirs are cavern predators. You can read about them at his blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing. Keith Ammann sheds some light on the behir’s fighting tactics. In fact, behirs hate dragons so much, that if they so much as even sense a dragon lives near it, it’ll hunt it down and try to kill it. They attack their enemies and prey by wrapping them up with their long, scaly bodies so they can crush the life out of them and swallow them whole.Īnd if that isn’t enough, they can breathe lightning, too.Īccording to fifth edition lore, behirs were created by giants as a hunter of dragons during the endless Giant/Dragon wars of long ago. The beithir is a large snakelike creature or dragon in Scottish folklore, possibly originating from sightings of large grass snakes ( Natrix natrix) or European eels ( Anguilla anguilla).īasically, the beithir is the Loch Ness Monster.ĭungeons & Dragons behirs are blue serpentine monsters with twelve short legs. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about beithirs:

Like many beasties from first edition, the behir found its roots in folkore, Scottish specifically. What behir (and other dragon slaying monster) variants are needed?.What variants do these weird snake-ipedes have in store for our players? Let’s take a look! DM Dave 1 Comment on Behir (and other Dragon Slaying Monster) Variants for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Posted in Monstersīehirs have been around since first edition, initially appearing in the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanath module.

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