The Spell Blindness from the PHB.
Fairly straight forward or so I thought until one of my group posed the following question: Does it work on Beholders? The spell description seems to lean towards a resounding "YES", but it irks me to no end that such a horrifying monster such as the iconic Beholder could be laid low by this measly spell.
1 - Has this combination of spell and multi-eyed monster ever come up in your campaigns?
2 - Do you allow it to completely blind such monsters? If so why? If not why?
3 - How about other monsters such as spiders, or hydras, or chimeras?
Help and advice greatly appreciated!
Blindness doesn't affect gaze attacks, unless you are the one being blinded. As far as affecting multiple eyes, the description lends itself to "per creature."
Blindness doesn't affect gaze attacks, unless you are the one being blinded. As far as affecting multiple eyes, the description lends itself to "per creature."
So in effect the eyes may be blind, but the beholder can still shoot its ray attacks from them? Interesting, hadn't thought about it that way. Any other thoughts?
I'd have to agree that while every eye is indead blind, therefore taking a 50% miss chance, they could indeed fire their eyestalks as well as the antimagic field from the center eye.