Floating Eye (3.5e Monster)

Floating Eye
''A giant eyeball floats a few feet off the ground. Its iris glows and then it shoots a brightly colored beam of energy at you.''

Floating eyes are common denizens of underground areas. Their name basically describes what they look like: big floating eyeballs. It isn't really understood how they can even exist or why they will help out monsters in areas they live in, but then attack other monsters from the same area. Scholars chock it up to magic. Go figure.

One thing that is certain about floating eyes is that they are rarely alone even if they appear to be. Monsters will often team up with a floating eye and wait until it locks gaze with a creature it has pissed off with its eye rays. They will then use the opportunity to run in and get an easy snack.

Floating eyes have no real desires or motivators. They don't eat, breathe, sleep, and don't have any need for material goods. They just roam around caverns and corridors, attacking some creatures, ignoring some, and helping out others. They also don't have a strong sense for survival and have no problems fighting to the death.

Although they are common, it is extremely rare to find more than one of them working together. It isn't even known how they come to be because they definitely don't breed in a traditional sense.

Strategies and Tactics
Floating eyes, despite their low intelligence, are fairly strategic combatants. They will barrage enemies with whatever elemental eye ray will cause the most damage and they will switch up which elements they use.

If in a solo fight, they will try to provoke their enemy into melee and use the daze effect to regain hitpoints through fast healing.

In group fights they are fine to be background artillery or even move in to save their allies when their allies need to fall back. They have no problems taking an attack (and hopefully causing a daze) in a group fight to save an ally.