Director

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==Director (Abomination)==
Directors are a social, warrior-beholder, and breed specialized mounts. They mindlink with their mounts to better control them.
Directors resemble beholders, but their central eye is smaller. They possess only six small eyes on retractable eye stalks. Directors have a fanged mouth below the central eye and possesses three clawed, sensory tendrils on their ventral surface. These tendrils are used to cling to the mount and link with its limited mind.
Directors' eyes have their own powers:
* magic missile (as spell , 2/round)
* Burning Hands (as spell at 8th level)
* Wall of Ice (as spell)
* slow (as spell)
* Enervation (as spell)
* Improved Phantasmal Force (as spell)
A director's central eye has the power of deflection – all frontal attacks on director suffer a -2 penalty to the attack roll and damage is halved. The director also gains a +2 bonus to all saving throws against spells cast by those in the field of vision of the central eye.
Director mounts seem to have derived from an insect stock, as they are covered in chitin and have simple eye spots and multiple limbs.
Directors normally possess 8 Hit Dice, but when mounted the director and mount are treated as a single creature whose Hit Dice equals the sum of those of the director and the mount. After a director/mount suffers half damage, the mount's speed is reduced to half and the director gets only one physical attack per round. A director may flee and leave his mount to fend for itself (the mount suffers a -4 penalty to its attack rolls). Directors have an AC of 4, but are AC 2 when mounted. Directors may use all of their normal powers while mounted, within the restrictions of beholder targeting angles.
Category:Creatures
Category:Monstrous Manual Creatures