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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 6743002" data-attributes="member: 6775477">Devious encounters are awesome, so long as the players are intelligent and use strategy to overcome the challenge, rather than just "I hit the thing."Just last week in a dungeon, my DM had a beholder on an island surrounded by a wide pit. There were other monsters (ogres and ettins) that came around the sides, and no where to hide and attack effectively. The minions kept the range attack characters from being able to effectively attack the beholder. The encounter was entirely unnecessary (we were just trying to get its loot), so we could have fled at any time, but we really didn't want to give in. Eventually we managed to get a character on the island (mine), who managed to keep the beholder busy (Lucky and my own lucky dice were the only reason I survived 9 eye rays before it turned to me to stone and dropped me in the pit) until the minions were all dead.My own personal best (at least recently) was a single medusa against a higher level party. Her lair was a maze of narrow passages with tight corners and limited visibility. She would fire her bow at the party, then move back to the next intersection. If they went around the corner to go after her, they either risked the medusa's gaze or were running blind. To top it off, almost all of the passages had spiked pit traps in the middle of them, while she wore boots of striding and springing to jump over them. Eventually, the party's rogue decided to move off in a different direction, which allowed him to eventually cut off her escape routes. Once cornered, she was easily slain. It was somewhat frustrating for the players at first, but it was also a lot of fun for them to think of how to beat what should have been an easy monster.</blockquote>

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