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Your DM allows +1int items? Otherwise, looks good. :)

A noteworthy article on how to redesign a beholder to make it less swingy in combat. Essentially trades out its save-or-die abilities and antimagic for damage, battlefield control and debuff capability. :) Design & Development: Monster Makeover: The Beholder

If your DM allows spell compendium, there is greater resistance, a 4th lv spell which grants +3 resistance bonus to all saves for 24 hours. I know it is quite far away, but might be worth considering over whether to hold off that cloak of resistance. Else, I say go with the rod of lesser...

In case I didn't make myself clear, applying metamagic and using telekinesis also requires a feat from lords of madness. Use of metamagic will disable that eye ray for a few rounds though.

Didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just felt needing to rest only 1 hour instead of the full 8 hours would be a boon to any party. Tome of worldly memory (MIC) if you are your party's encyclopedia. Maybe a pearl of power or 2. Heward's haversack if you don't already have one.

Very. In 3e, it would probably stop being fun for the spellcasters by the 4th encounter, when they have expended their higher lv spells and have to fall back on lower lv, less effective spells. Well...maybe if your party consisted of a warlock, binder... There are groups that don't? :p;):angel:

Recently replaying it as well, though I am a little stuck in the singleplayer campaign. There are quite a number of viable decks you can build, especially since you can abuse all the power cards. Check out decks like "The deck", "Rack-balance", "titania-balance", "kird-ape channel-ball" and...

A wand or two containing your favourite spells could be useful. Good choices include benign transposition or grease. Headband of intellect+2, since +1 versions shouldn't exist. Complete mage has heward's fortifying bedroll (3000gp), which lets you gain the benefits of 8 hours of sleep in just...

Beholders can bite as a standard action... If you wish, lords of madness has some interesting options for beholders, such as feats to let them shape their anti-magic cone into a disjunction ray (a standard action) or to have it affect only a single target. They can also apply metamagic to...

Which wasn't what he asked anyways. He wanted to know if there was an alternative for what he felt to be a lack-luster ability, not if it was that weak. The OP doesn't care whether he should or not. He wants to - that is a fact. The key responses that would matter here, IMO, is how he can...

It can still stun a foe for 1 round regardless of its HD. Only drawback will be its pitiful save DC.

There are still a few dual-stat combinations which haven't been covered yet. I am guessing goblins may be filling in the dex/cha niche?

What incentive would there be to play a monster race if I can't get all the benefits that come with it?

I seem to recall a 1st lv spell which is essentially a swift version of true strike, just that it grants a much smaller to-hit bonus (+4?). Anyone has any idea what it could be? :)

In 3e...none that I am aware of. They all lose out in the action economy (being outclassed 5 actions to 1 sucks). Maybe if you had your beholder hover directly above the party and divided them into 4 quadrants, then it might be a viable solo threat (in that it could actually use all 10 eye...

I think the OP recognises this, and this does not mean he has to accept it, hence the desire to funnel it into another ability. :) So...after countless splatbooks, not one way he can work around this? :p

I concur with either grease or nerveskitter (or both, if you wish to swap out another 1st lv spell later).

You are well on the route to embracing the spirit of optimisation, my young padawan. :cool:

Not really, the designers even seem to assume this (in the later splatbooks). For example, they outright stated in fiendish codex that a marilith is expected to maintain magic weapon on its 6 longswords at all times. Given that it is a SLA, would it be that disruptive to their daily routine...

Wonder if this might end up giving dnd more exposure than all of wotc's advertising campaigns thus far...:confused: