Gaping wounds - whether from injury or simply decomposition - expose the insides of its body, and it is either missing a few eyestalks or has a milky film covering some of its eyes. The death tyrant is an undead form of beholder akin to a zombie, though it retains some of the beholder's innate magical abilities.Ī death tyrant appears as a rotting, mold-encrusted beholder. Though it is a mindless undead, it still fights as if it had intelligence, using its eyes as effectively as possible. Do not leave the chamber." A death tyrant with no instructions simply attacks all living things it perceives. These instructions are usually quite simple for example: "Attack all humans who enter this chamber until they are destroyed or flee. Thus, they can move or attack, but can do both only if they charge (a partial charge).Ī death tyrant is programmed with specific instructions when it is created. Partial Actions Only (Ex): Death tyrants are slow and unresponsive, so they can perform only partial actions. Creatures can resist the effect with a successful Will save.įeather Fall (Sp): The death tyrant's natural buoyancy grants it a permanent featherfall effect with personal range.įlight (Ex): A death tyrant's body retains its natural buoyancy, allowing it to fly as the spell, as a free action, at a speed of 15 feet. Telekinesis: The beholder can move objects or creatures that weigh up to 325 pounds, as though with a telekinesis spell. The target must succeed at a Will save to resist. Sleep: This works like the spell, except that it affects one creature with any number of Hit Dice. Slow: This works like the spell, except that it affects one creature. Inflict Moderate Wounds: This works just like the spell, dealing 2d8+10 points of damage, or half that amount with a successful Will save. A target who makes a successful saving throw still takes 3d6+13 points of damage.įlesh to Stone: The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or be affected as though by the spell. The target must succeed at a Will save or be affected as though by the spell.įinger of Death: The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or be slain as though by the spell. All rays have a range of 170 feet and a save DC of 18.Ĭharm Monster: The target must succeed at a Will save or be affected as though by the spell.Ĭharm Person: The target must succeed at a Will save or be affected as though by the spell.ĭisintegrate: The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or affected as though by the spell.įear: This works like the spell, except that it targets one creature. A death tyrant can tilt and pan its body each round to change which rays it brings to bear in an arc.Įach eye's effect resembles a spell cast by a 13th-level sorcerer but follows the rules for a ray (see Aiming a Spell, page 148 of the Player's Handbook). The remaining eyes must aim at targets in other arcs or not at all. During a round, it can aim only three eye rays at targets in any one arc other than up (forward, backward, left, right, or down). The creature can easily aim all its eyes upward, but its body tends to get in the way when it tries to aim the rays in other directions. Typically, a given death tyrant has lost the use of 1d4+1 of these eyes, selected randomly.Įach of the surviving small eyes can produce a magical ray once per round, even when the death tyrant is attacking physically or moving at full speed. The creature can deactivate the cone by shutting its central eye.) Note that a death tyrant can bite only those creatures directly in front of it.Įye Rays (Su): in life, a death tyrant had ten small eyes on stalks atop its body, each with its own supernatural power, plus a large central eye. Once each round, during its turn, it decides which way it will face, and whether the antimagic cone is active or not. All magical and supernatural powers and effects within the cone are suppressed - even the death tyrant's own eye rays. This cone functions just like antimagic field cast by a 13th-level sorcerer. Opponents gain no flanking bonuses when attacking it.Īntimagic Cone (Su): Unless it has lost the use of its central eye (see below), a death tyrant continually produces a 170-foot antimagic cone extending straight ahead from its front. Special Qualities: antimagic cone, flight, single actions only, +2 turn resistance, undead traitsĪdvancement: 12-16 HD (Large) 17-33 HD (Huge)Ĭlimate/Terrain: Any land and undergroundĪll-Around Vision (Ex): A death tyrant's many eyes give it a +4 racial bonus to Search and Spot checks. Special Attacks/Actions: Eye rays +4 ranged touchĪbilities: Str 10, Dex 10, Con -, Int -, Wis 15, Cha 17 Initiative: +0 Senses: all-around vision and Spot +6ĪC: 20 (-1 size, +11 natural), touch 9, flat-footed 20
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