Blindness and Beholders

[Christian Walker]

If Blindness were cast upon a Beholder, would all of its eyes be blinded, or would the GM roll randomly to see which eye was effected? Or, could the caster target one of the eyes?

Thanks!

 

[dcollins]

I don't see any reason for other than the following to be the case:
- The whole beholder is blinded, as usual for the spell.
- All the beholder's supernatural abilities still work, as usual for the creature.

 

[Cheiromancer]

After all, Blindness doesn't blind just one of a person's two eyes. Even of blindness were cast on a giant fly (with thousands of little eyes) I would expect it to work.

And while it would be nice to turn off a beholder's eye rays by blinding it, that's probably a little much to expect for a 2nd level spell. It will have a hard time aiming the rays at its targets, though.

 

[Xarlen]

It would follow the rules of attacking invisible oponents with it's eye rays.

Good tactic, though. Good luck getting past it's Will save.

 

[Dr_Rictus]

Good luck getting past it's Will save.

That will be made considerably easier by the fact that blindness/deafness takes a Fortitude save, not a Will save, and Fortitude is not a good save category for aberrations.

 

[Xarlen]

Easier tactic then.

 

[Dr_Rictus]

A-yup.