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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 6771493" data-attributes="member: 13703">Last night I had my first encounter with a 3.5E Beholder as a player.&nbsp; As a DM I’ve run about 3 Beholder encounters, so I knew roughly what they were capable of (the last time was about 5 years ago, so the memory is a little hazy), so I brought out the big guys early.In the end I was pretty underwhelmed with my first combat against one of D&amp;D’s iconic monsters (I may have faced one in 2E, but I don’t really remember).The encounter versus our 12th level party lasted all of 1 round.&nbsp; The Beholder got the jump on the party and hit us with the anti-magic ray in the surprise round.&nbsp; It then acted first in round 1 and hit a couple of players with Finger of Death, with both PC’s rolling really high and making their saves.The Barbarian went next and hit the Beholder for about 30 points of damage.&nbsp; My Wizard then had his turn, casting Disintergrate.&nbsp; The Beholder failed the save, copped 78 points damage and was killed.Reading the monster description just now, I think the DM played the Beholder a little wrong (the Beholder should have hit us with up to 3 eyes, instead of the 1 (possibly 2) that we got.&nbsp; I also know that 6th level spells can be pretty nasty (and it was roughly a 50/50 chance the Beholder would make the save).&nbsp; However, I’m still surprised that he didn’t even make it out of the first round.Anyone else had similarly underwhelming experiences with monsters that didn’t live up to their reputation?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 6771493, member: 13703"] Last night I had my first encounter with a 3.5E Beholder as a player. As a DM I’ve run about 3 Beholder encounters, so I knew roughly what they were capable of (the last time was about 5 years ago, so the memory is a little hazy), so I brought out the big guys early. In the end I was pretty underwhelmed with my first combat against one of D&D’s iconic monsters (I may have faced one in 2E, but I don’t really remember). The encounter versus our 12th level party lasted all of 1 round. The Beholder got the jump on the party and hit us with the anti-magic ray in the surprise round. It then acted first in round 1 and hit a couple of players with Finger of Death, with both PC’s rolling really high and making their saves. The Barbarian went next and hit the Beholder for about 30 points of damage. My Wizard then had his turn, casting Disintergrate. The Beholder failed the save, copped 78 points damage and was killed. Reading the monster description just now, I think the DM played the Beholder a little wrong (the Beholder should have hit us with up to 3 eyes, instead of the 1 (possibly 2) that we got. I also know that 6th level spells can be pretty nasty (and it was roughly a 50/50 chance the Beholder would make the save). However, I’m still surprised that he didn’t even make it out of the first round. Anyone else had similarly underwhelming experiences with monsters that didn’t live up to their reputation? [/QUOTE]

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