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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mpauna" data-source="post: 3757972" data-attributes="member: 21339">Interesting idea...  I don't immediately see any issues with readying free actions for the eye rays.  In fact it sounds like a good way of nailing a caster while casting in order to interrupt a spell.The original beholder is limited to three rays in any one 90-degree arc (up, forward, backward, left, right, or down).  Depending upon where the targets were before, and where they attack from, you might or might not get a chance to use all (or even any) of the rays.  Since the antimagic cone can only be activated or deactivated once during each round, you could definitely only retarget it once per round, and since it talks about occuring during the beholders turn, it would depend upon if you consider the readies action to be a part of the beholder's turn or not.  Also, aiming the antimagic cone isn't listed as a free action, so it would probably be a standard action like any other supernatural ability.For my revised beholder, you can only target an individual with 2 rays during any given turn, so if you hit everyone once you could only hit them again a second time during the readies action.   I actually added the "quick spin" ability to allow the beholder a chance to react to attacks or spell casters once per round.  Instead of specifying a specific trigger, the quick spin allows the beholder to determine the threat level of any particular attack/opponent, and then decide to use the antimagic cone or not.Hopefully someone else has some comments ...Mark Pauna</blockquote>

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