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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 2111453" data-attributes="member: 1225"><p>Specifically, it went downhill when the druid moved forward until he turned back into a lion (and thus knew he was out of the antimagic cone), and then cast <em>transmute rock to mud</em> on the ceiling above the beholder. The beholder made his save, and avoided being buried. The druid followed that with a flame strike. The druid thus drew the <em>finger of death-disintegrate-flesh to stone</em> combo. Fortunately, he failed the right save. </p><p></p><p>Before all that, the beholder was quite willing to negotiate. He was in a good mood. (He'd gotten his scroll, after all*.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>IIRC, the wizard has the highest Diplomacy skill. That <em>might</em> be a factor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He was <em>invisible</em> (and out of the <em>antimagic</em> zone). And I rolled really badly for the beholder's Spot check to realize that there was something invisible sneaking up on him. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>They craggy guys were actually stalagmites that turned into craggy guys. The things that were on the ceiling were piercers that tried to fall on the druid (and, FWIW, the piercers were <em>summoned</em> by the craggy guys, and were mostly useless. Though they did do damage <em>after</em> the fight, when the druid lion decided to kill them by biting & clawing them).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Absolutely.</p><p></p><p>These guys had <strong>two</strong> hit dice. Boo-yah!</p><p></p><p>*The beholder was bribed/paid off by the orcs, who gave it a scroll containing the secrets of beholder magic. So if he'd had just a few weeks to study, he would have had <em>mage armor</em>...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 2111453, member: 1225"] Specifically, it went downhill when the druid moved forward until he turned back into a lion (and thus knew he was out of the antimagic cone), and then cast [i]transmute rock to mud[/i] on the ceiling above the beholder. The beholder made his save, and avoided being buried. The druid followed that with a flame strike. The druid thus drew the [i]finger of death-disintegrate-flesh to stone[/i] combo. Fortunately, he failed the right save. Before all that, the beholder was quite willing to negotiate. He was in a good mood. (He'd gotten his scroll, after all*.) IIRC, the wizard has the highest Diplomacy skill. That [i]might[/i] be a factor. :) He was [i]invisible[/i] (and out of the [i]antimagic[/i] zone). And I rolled really badly for the beholder's Spot check to realize that there was something invisible sneaking up on him. They craggy guys were actually stalagmites that turned into craggy guys. The things that were on the ceiling were piercers that tried to fall on the druid (and, FWIW, the piercers were [i]summoned[/i] by the craggy guys, and were mostly useless. Though they did do damage [i]after[/i] the fight, when the druid lion decided to kill them by biting & clawing them). Absolutely. These guys had [b]two[/b] hit dice. Boo-yah! *The beholder was bribed/paid off by the orcs, who gave it a scroll containing the secrets of beholder magic. So if he'd had just a few weeks to study, he would have had [i]mage armor[/i]... [/QUOTE]
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