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SEE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY: Beholder Back to Main e System Reference Document Creatures Open Game Content ( place problems on the discussion page). So the beholder acts perfectly normally, taking one action and making zero attacks by using its three eye rays. Beholder The Beholder's statistics are not included in the SRD because it is considered product identity of Wizards of the Coast. Each one forces the target creature to make a saving throw, or has an effect on an inanimate object. On a failure, the item cannot be harvested (either because the character is not skilled enough, or because the item is ruined). When the Beholder fires its eye ray, it produces one random effect from this list: charm, paralysis, fear, slow, enervation, telekinesis, sleep, petrification, disintegration, and death. On a success, the player is able to harvest the item. A 20th level warlock under the effects of slow who casts eldritch blast can only fire one of their usual four bolts because of this, for example.īut none of the eye rays require attack rolls. Beholder Harvesting Table Instructions: Because this creature is an Aberration, the player should roll a Arcana Check using the DCs in the table below. Powerful and intelligent, beholders were among the greatest threats to the world. These large, orb-shaped beings had ten eyestalks and one central eye, each containing powerful magic. Now, if any of those rays require the beholder to make attack rolls, such as maybe ranged spell attacks, then it's restricted to only making one of those. A beholder, sometimes called a sphere of many eyes or an eye tyrant, was a large aberration normally found in the Underdark. Pages 26-30 describe the beholder along with the undead death tyrant and lesser spectator.
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A beholder appears on the cover of the Monster Manual (5e) (2014). That's not three actions, it's one action: "Eye Rays". Numerous variants appeared in sourcebooks and Dungeon and Dragon magazines, including the level 5 gauth, level 29 ultimate tyrant, and level 30 voidsphere beholder.

A beholder has access to the action "Eye Rays", which fires three random eye rays at up to three targets. but it actually doesn't affect a beholder at all. Regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn. The goal of this site, and all of the sites that make up the Open Gaming Network, is to bring to you BOTH the official Open Game Content rules for. On its turn, it can use either an action or a bonus action, not both.

The restriction on actions and attacks caused by slow is:
