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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5965101" data-attributes="member: 6669384">So that means that it's 3.5 for some people, but not for the people silly enough to actually buy their books?I can follow logic like that.I'll probably follow it with raucous laughter, but I can follow it.Seriously though, this does spell a certain amount of trouble for the most infamous Anti-Magic user out there, the Beholder.Consider that his famed Antimagic eye effect is a 60 foot cone, starting in the squares right in front of him.A spell caster more than 60 feet away throws a spell like Lightning Bolt (just to keep in line with our examples).  The bolt leaps out on course, then vanishes as it enters the Antimagic cone's area, only to reappear when it leaves that area.  Which is to say, right in the Beholder's square.It limits him even further.Normally the smart tactic for him is to use Anti-Magicon to dis-enchant the bulk of the party, then use his other eye-beams on the people beyond the edge of his cone (melee types, preferably).  He can shift the cone round by round to make new targets available.He can still do that, but he has to have some way of keeping people from backing beyond the central eye's range.And two Beholders are actually weaker than one, since their main "weapon" protects its targets from the offensive beams of the other Beholder.  They get in each others way.</blockquote>