Gail Shaw wrote:

> Bill DeWitt wrote in message <3c42dd94$1@news.povray.org>...
> 
>>"Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote :
>>
>>>But, but, but... she can't.  According to my worn out copy of the AD&D
>>>Monster Manual, the Beholder needs that big eye.[1]
>>>
>>   Ah... I thought 'Beholder" was her own name (Never played the game).
>>
>>
> 
> No. I chose it 'cause I thought it'd be an easy intro to organic modelling.
> Easy is one thing it wasn't <grin>
> 
> For those who don't know, here's the description of the beholder from the
> AD&D
> monsterous manual
> 
> "The beholder is the stuff of nightmares. This creature, also called the
> sphere of
> many eyes or the eye tyrant, appears as a large orb dominated by a central
> eye
> and a large toothy maw, has 10 smaller eyes on stalks sprouting from the top
> of the orb.


Yours only has 9.

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