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<blockquote data-quote="Kyramus" data-source="post: 503313" data-attributes="member: 7072">I originally ran the beholder being able to pivot and found that this made the creature way too powerful.I've since followed the book verbatim and added little tactics that a beholder would use because it is highly intelligent. A potion of flying will enable the beholder to pivot since it has full control of how he flies.because of how 3e works, facaing is no longer an issue. have central eye beam do a sweep, while eye stalks (note eye, can see) point and shoot.&nbsp; even with the central eye being open and on, the beams can work as long as the beam itself doesn't intersect the anti magic.so a beholder can train the central eye directly on the mage or cleric, and use the eye beams on the side or back where the fighters or rogues attack because they want their weapons to be magical.The beholder can still turn the central eye on or off, but in combat I'd say it'll keep it on.The central eye would be off if said beholder is not expecting the part and is reading a magical book or doing craft magic items or researching some other thing from another book that is magical.-----The above is purely how I run the beholder now, not necessarily an official version of the beholder.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kyramus, post: 503313, member: 7072"] I originally ran the beholder being able to pivot and found that this made the creature way too powerful. I've since followed the book verbatim and added little tactics that a beholder would use because it is highly intelligent. A potion of flying will enable the beholder to pivot since it has full control of how he flies. because of how 3e works, facaing is no longer an issue. have central eye beam do a sweep, while eye stalks (note eye, can see) point and shoot. even with the central eye being open and on, the beams can work as long as the beam itself doesn't intersect the anti magic. so a beholder can train the central eye directly on the mage or cleric, and use the eye beams on the side or back where the fighters or rogues attack because they want their weapons to be magical. The beholder can still turn the central eye on or off, but in combat I'd say it'll keep it on. The central eye would be off if said beholder is not expecting the part and is reading a magical book or doing craft magic items or researching some other thing from another book that is magical. ----- The above is purely how I run the beholder now, not necessarily an official version of the beholder. [/QUOTE]

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