Editing Behir (section)

==Publication History==
[[File:S4 cover.jpg|right|thumb|The behir on the cover of Module S4.]]
The behir debuted in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition in the adventure module [[The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth]] (1982); one year later it was officially added to the [[Monster Manual]] II. It was first updated to AD&D 2e in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989) and from there made it into the Monstrous Manual (1993). An article in [[Dragon Magazine]] #156 (April 1990) added the Jungle and Desert Behirs.

[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] saw the behir debut in the [[Monster Manual]] for both 3.0 and 3.5, with [[Dragon Magazine]] #333 featuring the Ecology of the Behir. The Halruaan Behir debuted on WotC's website, but was then printed in the 3e [[Shining South]] [[splatbook]] in 2004. In [[Red Hand of Doom]] the half-fiend Behir Varanthian serves [[Tiamat]] and her Hand and will begrudgingly work with the Hand's other dragons if they all survive till the rematch.

As an OGL monster, Behir appear in [[Pathfinder]]. They're slightly beefier than their 3.5 incarnation, but otherwise pretty typical. The penultimate crunch book, ''Heroes of Golarion'', included the Beast Speaker feat that lets a character take a behir as an animal companion, but like most ways of getting a non-animal as an animal companion in PF, it's garbage and worse than just having a big cat, which doesn't require a feat, as a companion.

In [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], the behir didn't get into the game until the [[Monster Manual]] 2. Come [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], it once more returned to the core [[Monster Manual]], with the alteration that it's now evil rather than neutral, and might even be a [[giant]] experiment in creating anti-dragon weapons.