Thanks - and, it should be able to use its "minor" eye rays on targets outside of the anti-magic cone, correct?
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Thanks - and, it should be able to use its "minor" eye rays on targets outside of the anti-magic cone, correct?
Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
AFAIK, the minor eye rays can be aimed "forward" just like the anti-magic cone, but of course they do nothing if the cone is active.
But the big eye can be open/closed, shutting the anti-magic cone on/off (i think as a free action once per round, just like the other eyes), so Mr. Beholder can use a small eye ray to hit something in the "forward" quadrant-- it just requires a little coordination between the minor eyes and the big one.
And outside the "forward" quadrant, anything goes as long as the 3-eyes-per-quadrant rule is observed, regardless of the on/off state of the big eye.
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And, it can use the telekinesis "violent thrust" maneuver with one eye to toss something heavy at somebody within the anti-magic zone. A nice 15d6 damage (avg of 52) is pretty nasty when you have no magical buffs on you. (assuming my beholder is a bit higher level than standard)
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Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
Sweet! Yoinked!
Hmmm... Now that I think about it, can't you increase that to 20d6 if you have enough ceiling space: telekinesis a heavy-ish object (>200lb) to 200 ft up & drop it. Infortunately the limit is 375lb. So maybe a really strong flying minion can drop 400 or 800 lbs from 100 or 50 ft. Or something... >8]
Grmbl... that's exactly what I was planning to do in my encounter! The beholder even has a convenient pile of rubble nearby.
I purposely refrained from posting the idea since one of my players started to visit the boards again
Grmbl... that's exactly what I was planning to do in my encounter! The beholder even has a convenient pile of rubble nearby.
I purposely refrained from posting the idea since one of my players started to visit the boards again
Sorry about that - hopefully they won't read the specific thread. And, if they do, they won't metagame it too badly.
Well, how's the saying? Great minds think alike?
And while I guess my player has seen this thread (he was hinting at something I'd written) I trust it won't affect his actions. We also stopped playing mid-combat because a rule-question* came up, so we'll start with the beholder's action first thing next session
*: I was unsure if a character's psionic weapon feat would work in the antimagic cone and looking it up afterwards found out that _all_ psionic feats count as supernatural and thus do not work.
Another thing I had forgotten about was that beholders cannot be flanked, which means the ranger's alternate class ability from PHB2 wouldn't have been of any use for the party's rogue. But I guess that's balanced by the ranger player forgetting to apply his aberration-bane bonus damage...
coyote6
Adventurer
It would be easier for me to count the number of high-level fights I GMed where I didn't forget something.
Heck, the big climactic battle of the campaign -- 20th level PCs vs. Ashardalon, had a couple of months to prepare for it, thanks to unforseen circumstances. I still forgot about the dragon's ring of spell turning (greater? something like that) when the greater dispel magics were targeted at him.
I did remember it for the polar ray, disintegrate, and dimensional anchor, though, so it worked out okay.
Heck, the big climactic battle of the campaign -- 20th level PCs vs. Ashardalon, had a couple of months to prepare for it, thanks to unforseen circumstances. I still forgot about the dragon's ring of spell turning (greater? something like that) when the greater dispel magics were targeted at him.
I did remember it for the polar ray, disintegrate, and dimensional anchor, though, so it worked out okay.
