Eyeball (familiar)

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Eyeballs are close cousins to beholders. Like their cousins, they are capable of casting magic using their eyestalks. Eyeballs are usually adopted as familiars by spellcasters of evil alignment.

[edit] Statistics

Race: aberration
Alignment: neutral evil
Armor class: 18 to 25
Hit points: 9 to 177
Attack bonus: -2 to +30/+25/+20
Damage:
at level 1: 1d3 - 2 slashing damage
at level 40: 1d8 - 2 / 1d10 -2 slashing damage (creature weapon)

Hit dice (level): 1 to 40
Challenge rating: 2 to 35

Abilities
	strength	6 to 8
	dexterity	16 to 20
	constitution	9 to 10
	intelligence	6
	wisdom	10
	charisma	12 to 15

Saves
	fortitude	0 to 18
	reflex	3 to 21
	will	2 to 22

Skills: hide (exceptionally high at low levels), listen (low until level 16), search, spot
Feats: alertness, mobility, weapon proficiency (creature), weapon finesse (at level 3), dodge (at level 6), great fortitude (at level 11), expertise (at level 14), combat casting (at level 18), disarm (at level 29), darkvision (at level 30)

[edit] Special abilities

Eyeball familiars have a number of special defenses, depending on their masters' level. These defenses include special immunities, as well as damage reduction and spell resistance. In addition, the eyeball's bite damage improves (as a creature weapon) as the master level increases.

master level damage reduction spell resistance immunity (cumulative) 1 10 charm monster, mass charm 5 12 mind-affecting spells 10 14 knockdown 15 16 paralysis 20 5/+1 18 25 5/+1 20 30 10/+2 22 35 15/+3 24 40 25/+4 26

master level base bite damage 1 d3 9 d4 14 d6 18 d6/d8 31 d8/d8 40 d8/d10

[edit] Spells and spell-like abilities

Eyeball familiars have a number of special attacks, depending on their masters' level. Their spell-like attacks are flame ray, frost ray, inflict wounds ray, cold bolt, daze bolt, knockdown bolt, slow bolt, and fear gaze. They also have limited spell-casting ability, with an effective caster level of 13 until master level 25, at which point the effective caster level becomes 15. The spells eyeball familiars can cast are mage armor, color spray, and flame lash.

master level	flame ray	frost ray	inflict wounds ray	slow bolt	knock- down bolt	daze bolt	cold bolt	color spray	flame lash	mage armor	fear gaze
1		6x/day
2		12x/day
3		18x/day
4		24x/day
6		24x/day	2x/day
7		24x/day	6x/day
8		24x/day	8x/day
9		24x/day	12x/day
10		24x/day	18x/day
11		24x/day	24x/day
12	2x/day	24x/day	24x/day
13	4x/day	24x/day	24x/day
14	8x/day	24x/day	24x/day
15	12x/day	24x/day	24x/day
16	12x/day	24x/day	24x/day							1x/day
17	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day							1x/day
18	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day						1x/day
19	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	2x/day						1x/day
20	48x/day	48x/day	48x/day	4x/day						2x/day
21	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day	1x/day					2x/day
25	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	2x/day	2x/day			1x/day		4x/day
26	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day	1x/day			1x/day		1x/day
28	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day		1x/day		1x/day
32	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day		1x/day	1x/day	1x/day
36	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day
39	24x/day	24x/day	24x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day	1x/day

Entries in italics indicate abilities that have fewer uses per day at later levels.