The rest of Volo’s treatment of beholder tactics relates to the layout of its lair and the various minions therein. Hey, this is how our super-intelligent beholder can tailor its randomly chosen eye rays to the target it wants to facially reconfigure!
How do beholders pick things up?
A beholder is going to position itself as you’d place a security camera: in a high-up corner where it can see everything and no one can maneuver behind it. Wherever it aims its Antimagic Cone, it’s also going to catch creatures it wants to shoot its eye rays at. When its own turn comes, it projects three Eye Rays.
Do beholders eat?
Unlike humans a Beholder can eat a large meal and then go for days or even weeks with out food or water.
Can beholders swim?
According to this question the fly speed can only be used for flying, and otherwise swimming speed is equivalent to half of normal speed. However beholders have a normal speed of 0ft, and flying speed of 20ft.
What happens if you banish a beholder?
What happens if you banish a beholder? Beholders can disintegrate rocks, and they will do so to make a lair suitably with regard to taking advantage of their natural abilities to float and eye-rays.
How does the Beholder’s charm Ray really take a PC?
The beholder’s Antimagic Cone even calls out the Eye Rays as being affected by it. Thus, if you stand within the beholder’s Antimagic Cone, the charmed condition is suppressed and you can attack normally. This is not a fool-proof plan, as the beholder can move or deactivate its Antimagic Cone at the start of its turns.
How often can beholders use their Magic Rays?
Beholders and beholder kin are given a number of rays that they can use. The entry for the Beholder-kin: Watcher notes that each eye can use one of its powers every round, in its given arc. Does this mean that a beholder should be able to dump 10+ magic rays every round as long as it commits to a full-attack action?
How many eye rays can a beholder produce?
“Each of a beholder’s small eyes can produce a magical ray once per round as a free action. During a single round, a creature can aim only two eye rays (gauth) or three eye rays (beholder) at targets in any one 90-degree arc (up, forward, backward, left, right, or down).
Can a beholder shift its targets after its first ray?
A beholder can shift its targets after its first or second rays. For example, if a beholder intends to shoot charm, slowing, and sleep rays at a ranger, and the ranger succumbs to the charm, the beholder could use its remaining rays against other targets.
