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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2986460" data-attributes="member: 2011">The purpose of this sentence is to allow the Beholder to change which rays can be fired in which arcs each round. The purpose of the sentence is not to invalidate the previous sentence that the Beholder is limited to 3 rays per arc. For example:Round one: arc one: disintegrate, charm monster, telekinesis: arc two: fear, finger of death, charm person, arc three: etc.Round two: arc one: telekinesis, fear, finger of death: arc two: charm person, slow, charm monster, arc three: etc.I have not once limited the Beholder's movement in any way in any of my posts.I have instead stated that an arc is not based on facing. It is based on direction. Just like the rules state (forward, backwards, up, down, right, or left).Well, you keep saying it works well, but you continue to avoid saying how.Where is your rules support that it can change the positioning (I assume you mean direction) of the arcs?With your "change the positioning" comment, you appear to be adding facing rules. You appear to be claiming that the directions of the arc change when the facing of the creature (which does not exist in the game) changes (if I understand you correctly).Even the flying movement rules do not have facing in them. They have direction. The creature has to continue flying in the direction it has been flying. It does not have to continue flying in the direction it has been facing because there is no facing in the game.A dragon can bite someone in any square around it, even if it is flying in the opposite direction.Tilt/pan is descriptive text to explain how the Beholder can change which rays associate with which arc each round. It does not mean that he can move arcs around, nor does it invalidate the "3 rays per arc" rule that proceeds it in the text.Note: As posted earlier, I agree with you that the Beholder can target a single opponent with more than three rays in the same round if the Beholder changes its position relative to the target. It has to fly around the target (in a limited arc since it only has a Speed of 20) to do so, but it can be done. What cannot be done is targeting a single opponent with more than 3 rays from far away (e.g. 100 feet) since the Beholder cannot move quickly enough to get to a different side of the opponent (and hence target it with rays from a different arc) in the same round.Btw, the 3E Beholder was also limited to 3 rays per arc, but it could fire all 9 rays (10 if you count its main eye) straight up. So, people wanted to rotate (using the pan/tilt language) the Beholder so that its main eye was "facing" the ground so that it could fire all 10 rays into a single arc. When the Sage was asked about this, he said it was not allowed.</blockquote>

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