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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ppaladin123" data-source="post: 4777652" data-attributes="member: 60923">The reason is that 3.5e has no rules for targeting individual sections of  monsters. It also has no rules for "temperature that melts eye-balls," and does not allow you to blind enemies with a fireball. The authors did not give any mechanical description of the beholder's eye stalks or their relative strength. There is nothing in the current rule set that allows you to say their eyes are fragile or relatively unprotected. For all we know their eye-stalks are stronger than steel and their eyes are made of invincible crystal. For the purposes of 3.5. combat statistics, they do not exist apart from the rest of the beholder.Examine these two statements:"It does not specifically say I can't do it, so I can.""This is what the rules say I can do. I can only do these things unless I make a house rule to expand my options."D&D is the second kind of game. You are trying to argue using the first statement. You say that everything that is logical in the real world should be possible. Essentially you are arguing that there is an unwritten ruleset that applies where ever logic (as you interpret it)dictates. D&D is not the real world. It is a set a rules designed to allow everyone to get together and play the game using AGREEDED UPON RULES AND ABSTRACTIONS. Arguments over what is logical and what is possible are exactly why the rule-set exists. We are trying to avoid the, "I shot you, you are dead. No, I am not, I dodged that because the sun was in your eye," arguments that kids have when play cowboys and indians in their backyards.Go ahead and make a houserule about fragile eye-stacks. In your world, beholders can have fragile, easy-to-target body parts and fireballs can blind monsters. Just understand that it is your world then, not a world generated with the d&d rule set alone. You will never find rules justification for this; it is a house rule. Just make sure everyone who is playing agrees to it and agrees to all the ramifications that come from it and have fun.</blockquote>

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