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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 803257" data-attributes="member: 10131">Look up the rules on gaze attacks.Anyone fighting a creature with a gaze attack can do one of two things, if I remember correctly.  She can close her eyes and fight blindly, or she can "avert her eyes" at which point the gaze attack has a 50% miss chance.Note, however, that a creature with a gaze attack can also ACTIVELY use its gaze attack on its turn as a standard action - basically, the Medusa or whatever stares right at you, trying to meet your gaze.  If I remember correctly, averting your eyes does NOT help if the creature with the gaze attack does this.In terms of what is affected by a petrify attack, unless the rules for the monster state differently, the creature and ALL its gear is petrified.  You could allow items to get individual saving throws, so the fighter's magic sword might not turn to stone... but would certainly be stuck in his hand! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />A creature that cannot SEE the creature making the gaze attack is not affected BY that attack.  So if the basilisks are in darkness, invisible, dense fog, or the characters are blinded, then they aren't subject to the gaze attack.If you wanted to edit the Basilik and give it some DR.... I'd say increase the CR of the creature by 1 if you give it a 5 or 2 if you give it 10.Good luck!</blockquote>

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