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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 1980465" data-attributes="member: 2525">We recently almost got a TPK from some rasts in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (everyone survived, barely, and it took some luck).  Rasts have a paralyzing gaze, and once you are caught in the loop of the paralyzation, you are pretty much out of it for the rest of the encouter (since you are paralyzed usually for many rounds, and each of those rounds your eyes are wide open, and thus you can be gazed and must make more saves each round you are paralyzed, causing an endless loop of paralyzation).After the battle, we thought of the following ways to deal with it:1) Cast invisibility on the opponants (or, improved invisibility).  Yes, they will be harder to hit.  However, they can no longer hit you with a gaze if you cannot see them at all.  It's even possible you could glitterdust them, so you can see them to hit them, but their eyes are themselves not visible and therefore not able to gaze you.2) Cast Darkness in the area of the opponants.  You cannot see them, so the gaze does not work.  They also cannot see you, so everyone is on a fairly even playing field otherwise and attacking at the same penalty.3) Use an alternative method of seeing them, such as tremorsense, scent, blind fighting, etc...Gaze attacks proved to be way more powerful than I ever knew.  But, some smart applications of relatively low level spells can neutralize the gaze.</blockquote>