DDB's not got a great interface when it comes to updating spell lists. For any other class feature it'll highlight any choices you need to make at level-up, but for spells they're tucked away in a separate menu that's hard to even spot unless you go looking for it, and then you have to find the "Add spells" option at the bottom of the list before it'll even tell you you're missing anything. It's an odd piece of design, given that everything else is laid out clearly tab by tab.
Probably shouldn't have %@#&ed it, then.
Hey, it's better than the disintegration eyebeam. Beholders are a whole laundry list of increasingly worse things that can happen to you, and petrification is by no means as bad as it gets.
I treasure the look I saw on a player's face as he recognised the sequence of saving throws he was rolling, and realised his character was hovering above a beholder they couldn't see.
Heh. They're at their worst in old-school Spelljammer where they can really exploit the lack of a fixed up/down to maximize "eyes on target" and avoid melee types. Plus there's often a whole shipload of them to deal with and there's the ship-scale combo-beams to worry about. Better hope your helmsman is good enough to keep out of their short range while you take potshots with ballistae and catapults and whatnot. Most parties are just dead if they reach boarding ranges without taking losses.
Yeah, they stuffed me in an extradimensional space, teleported to our home city, and paid a wizard to cast stone to flesh on me. So I'm better now, just ticked I didn't get to see the killing blow get delivered on the stupid beholder.
You eat a few babies and people never let you live it down. Just try to think of it as ethnic cuisine, can't you?
