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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 151697" data-attributes="member: 548">This particular beholder is missing the pertinent eyestalk for making its own passageways, but it may have prepped a few before losing it.  Still, the beholder will have to be a bit stupid to lose to a level 7 party.I've found that simple arrow slits (eyestalk slits?) do wonders for making it an actual CR 13 monster!  It could probably only fit 1-2 eyes in to shoot out of it, but that 9/10 cover is worth it IMO.  A well-prepared one might even block off all passages to it with petrified corpses.I guess I shouldn't be talking about ways for the beholder to play smart, though.  Try 2 ogres with 4 fighter levels and 1 Order of Bow Initiate level with huge mighty composite longbows behind those arrow slits.  That's an EL 9 encounter that many parties have trouble with, and will at least make the wizard blow a lot of his spells before they meet that paraplegic beholder!I guess if you wanted to kill a 7th level party with an encounter that's technically EL 7, send a half-fiend troll after them... better known as The Fireball Test (resist fire/acid 20 remember!).  The best way to kill it would be to knock it out with subdual damage, and declare a Fireball as a coup de grace (about the only thing most parties have that can cause real damage to such a monstrosity).</blockquote>