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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 989317" data-attributes="member: 3146">That's actually the way gaze attacks are supposed to work. If you begin the round within 30' of a creature with a gaze attack, you generally have to make a save. If it spends a standard action to look at you, you have to make another save.Unfortunately, those rules deal very very very poorly with multiple gaze attack creatures since technically, you would have to make one save for each creature each round. Which means that against 8 bodaks, even a character who only fails the save on a one has a 34% chance of dying each round.WRT all of the people who say &quot;Death Ward&quot;, you're being somewhat silly. Death Ward is, IME, not exactly a common spell to prepare at 8th level (it probably becomes more common at level 11+ where the opportunity cost is lower and there are more death effects in play). And even so, it will only protect one party member from the death effects. Everyone else is just as screwed.In my understanding, the best way to deal with bodaks is to retreat outside of the 30' gaze range and fire arrows at them until they're dead. (That tends to work well against most creatures with gaze attacks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Unfortunately, it's also quite boring.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 989317, member: 3146"] That's actually the way gaze attacks are supposed to work. If you begin the round within 30' of a creature with a gaze attack, you generally have to make a save. If it spends a standard action to look at you, you have to make another save. Unfortunately, those rules deal very very very poorly with multiple gaze attack creatures since technically, you would have to make one save for each creature each round. Which means that against 8 bodaks, even a character who only fails the save on a one has a 34% chance of dying each round. WRT all of the people who say "Death Ward", you're being somewhat silly. Death Ward is, IME, not exactly a common spell to prepare at 8th level (it probably becomes more common at level 11+ where the opportunity cost is lower and there are more death effects in play). And even so, it will only protect one party member from the death effects. Everyone else is just as screwed. In my understanding, the best way to deal with bodaks is to retreat outside of the 30' gaze range and fire arrows at them until they're dead. (That tends to work well against most creatures with gaze attacks :) Unfortunately, it's also quite boring.) [/QUOTE]

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