While your familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, you can see through your familiar’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has.
Can gazers talk?
Gazers also had the ability to mimic any speech they heard, repeating it in a high pitched tone.
What creature looks like beholder?
The Death Kiss
The Death Kiss, or “bleeder”, is a fearsome predator found in caverns or ruins. Its spherical body resembles that of the dreaded beholder, but the “eyestalks” of this creature are bloodsucking tentacles, its “eyes” are hook-toothed orifices.
What is a gazer?
(gāz) intr.v. gazed, gaz·ing, gaz·es. To look steadily, intently, and with fixed attention.
How far can your familiar be from you?
Your familiar must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its Reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it.
What is a small beholder called?
An eyeball is a Tiny beholder-kin with four eyestalks; they are popular familiars in some wizardly and sorcerous circles. They only have 4 eyestalks (charm person, Charm Monsters, Sleep, and telekinesis). In 5th edition, eyeballs are called gazers. They appear when beholders sleep.
Is the Gazer’s eye rays ability an attack?
So by that definition the gazer’s Eye Rays ability would not count as an attack since it only ever requires the target to make saving throws. However a Gazer is not one of the default familiars offered by the find familiar spell nor is it a beast. So you are already dealing with a creature well outside the typical range of the spell.
Can a Gazer be used as a find familiar?
However a Gazer is not one of the default familiars offered by the find familiar spell nor is it a beast. So you are already dealing with a creature well outside the typical range of the spell. So by that measure it’s entirely up to the DM whether or not the gazer’s Eye Rays can be used or not.
When does the Beholder use its eye rays?
Maintaining its use of the Eye Rays is always the beholder’s higher priority. It will Bite only if (a) it’s within melee range of a target and (b) all the PCs it can attack with its Eye Rays have already proved themselves resistant to two or more types of them.
How does this familiar Gazer work in Dragon Heist?
Our Wizard has the Find Familiar spell, and we’re running through Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. At a point of the adventure, adventurers find an albino Gazer. The gazer is itself disloyal. A wizard character can befriend it with a successful DC 11 Charisma (Persuasion) check and turn it into their familiar with a find familiar ritual.
