Beholder Help

[Venport]

A Few Questions about Beholders:









1: Can he use his eye rays while using their antimagic eye? The MM says that it suppresses their eye rays but dose that just mean with in the cone? Or dose that mean all together? I was thinking that he could shoot an eye ray just as long as it was not within the antimagic cone







2: assuming he can’t fire their eye rays…. If they took one of the feats from lords of madness (LoM) that allows them to cause their ant magic come to one person can they thin fire eye rays?







3: with that feat can he keep the antimagic field on a person not matter what they do?







4: Valadure will know the parties tactics and I have a wizard who likes to use disintegrate… can he use a ring of counters spells and each time the spell is cast and deflected out of the ring can he just touch the ring again with his eye stalk of disintegrate and have the ring recharge with a new disintegrate counter spell??







5: I’m also looking for new ways to make him more nasty: is there a beholder paragon template somewhere one line or in a book that I don’t know about? A a different template that would make him more nasty? (the beholder can have up to a +3 level adjustment)







6: if I were to add come minion to the fight what would be the best creatures to have in the fight? I was thinking 3 gauths?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Hi!

A lot of us here post at work and use the "stealth" color scheme available in the user options. It's a grey-white background that makes your font color hard to read. You may want to consider using the default font.

I'd answer your questions, but I don't have Lords of Madness. Personally, if I wanted to make the guy nastier, I'd just start him out with improved invisibility up.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

 

[Venport]

ok that's fine i'm not sure if i know where to find that color but is this better?/

Also if you don't know much about lords of madness that's fine.. the bigger thought is can a Beholder fre it's eye rays while his anti-maigc cone is going? I was thinking yes as long as it isnot into the antimagic cone? Any help?

 

[demiurge1138]

1. Beholders can't fire eye rays into the area affected by their antimagic cone. They can fire in other directions.
2. Already covered.
3. A beholder can rotate on its turn as a free action (since there's no real facing rules) to keep a victim covered by their antimagic cone. But a character could, for example, spend a move action getting out of the cone and then cast a spell. The beholder would likewise have to rotate to re-target a Focused Antimagic target (the primary benefit of this feat is for it to still have one target under the antimagic while blasting creatures that would otherwise be in the cone with eye rays).
4. Yes
5. You could give him a couple levels in beholder mage, and there's a fairly recent issue of Dragon (within 3.5 kind of recent, I don't remember the number) with a 3-level beholder abomination prestige class. In terms of normal classes, fighter and rogue would be mean additions to a beholder.
6. Gauths would be good minions, but any charmed creature would do. You might consider having melee types (say, minotaurs) to engage your fighters directly and keep them occupied.

Demiurge out.

 

[Venport]

thank you so much for the help this will give me time to plan out a nasty tratgcy for him and some nasty minion...


Thank you thank you thank you

ps. this place is so much better that WOTC people acctulay sound knowlagable

 

[jmucchiello]

ok that's fine i'm not sure if i know where to find that color but is this better?/

Don't select any color or font. Leave the selection boxes as [Font] and [Color].

As for the beholder, yes, he can fire eye rays into the other areas not covered by the antimagic effect. The real question that beholders always bring up is can they fire their eyerays down since some player always tries to get underneath the beholder.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

The best ever!

The complete guide to Beholders is the best resource for them. Trust me the price for the PDF is well worth it.