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Beholder tactics: Standard actions & flyby attacks
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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5035994" data-attributes="member: 46713"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p></p><p>I'm currently preparing an encounter with a beholder (and a bunch of duergar minions) for my game and I've been trying to figure out good uses for their Standard action (which they [apparently] don't really need for anything) and their flyby attack.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the Standard action, all I've come up with is:</p><p>- use it to make a double move (doh!)</p><p>- use a ready action to shoot another three eye rays when anyone enters a 90° arc that the beholder didn't attack on its turn</p><p>- use the total defense action</p><p></p><p>I'm a bit puzzled about their flyby attack feat which seems to be rather useless since they don't have any decent attack requiring a standard action. Should I just swap it for something more useful or am I overlooking something?</p><p></p><p>Maybe I should add the party already knows that there's a beholder nearby, so they've been able to prepare for the encounter. So far, they've been mostly using ready actions hoping to kill the beholder as soon as it shows up, before it gets a chance to use any eye-rays.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 5035994, member: 46713"] Hi everyone, I'm currently preparing an encounter with a beholder (and a bunch of duergar minions) for my game and I've been trying to figure out good uses for their Standard action (which they [apparently] don't really need for anything) and their flyby attack. Regarding the Standard action, all I've come up with is: - use it to make a double move (doh!) - use a ready action to shoot another three eye rays when anyone enters a 90° arc that the beholder didn't attack on its turn - use the total defense action I'm a bit puzzled about their flyby attack feat which seems to be rather useless since they don't have any decent attack requiring a standard action. Should I just swap it for something more useful or am I overlooking something? Maybe I should add the party already knows that there's a beholder nearby, so they've been able to prepare for the encounter. So far, they've been mostly using ready actions hoping to kill the beholder as soon as it shows up, before it gets a chance to use any eye-rays. [/QUOTE]
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