Glitterdust on a Beholder?

[Orco42]

Ok what happens if you cast glitterdust on a beholder? If it fails its saves it is blinded.

Since it has no line of sight can it use any of it's eyestalks? Should I let it use they rays and roll the direction randomly, or have some stalks not blinded?

Thanks.

 

[trentonjoe]

I would roll for each eyestalk with maybe a -2 to the check.

The central eye should have the full save.

Just my opinion.

 

[Forrester]

Most spells don't require line of sight, but line of effect. For instance, you can say you'll cast a Sleep spell 20' into an area that you can't see within.

Whether this would apply to a Beholder's eyes is up to you, but I would imagine that it would.

 

[chilibean]

If you're blinded, then your enemies are effectively invisible. Thus you have to pick a square to direct your attack at (guess targets location) and you still suffer a 50% miss chance.

But I'm not sure how you use a spell effect to blind it's central eye. It's power is an antimagic field. How is a spell going to affect that?

And if it can see with that one, then it doesn't have to guess the targets location. I would still give it a 50% miss chance though, since it wouldn't be used to aiming with something other than the eye that's shooting. If you wanted, you might reduce it to a 20% miss chance instead for targets in front of it.