Raven Crowking
First Post
But isn't using the terrain to your advantage something that even KOBOLDS do and shouldn't be just a beholder thing?
Sure.
But the smarter you are, the better you can use it. And beholders are smarter than kobolds by far.
Also, the ability to disintigrate things at will means that, with almost no effort, a beholder can reshape underground terrain to meet its needs perfectly.
In fact, when the PCs are crossing the narrow bridge to reach the beholder, rather than target a PC, the beholder should simply disintigrate the bridge. After all, the beholder can always charm and/or strongarm others into rebuilding it if he wants. (And he does want, because that bridge trick is such an easy way to deal with interlopers -- the beholder can fly down at its leisure to pick through the corpses.)
RC