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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 6667532" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>If I have a 12th level party and I want them to have a memorable boss battle, I'm giving them a beholder with legendary actions.  If I'm having the 16th level PCs face off against two beholders, there is no way that I'm giving them their legendary actions.  You're doing a disservice by giving more than one creature lair/legendary actions in an encounter.  You give those abilities to make the enemy feel special.  It adds that halo of danger that makes it a special event.  If you overuse the device, it becomes just another element of the game.  There might be an occasional rare circumstance in which you're putting two epic things with legendary/lair actions together - but I would not use that type of combination more than once in a campaign, and most likely I'd have those beings facing each other with the PCs trying to survive the fallout.</p></blockquote><p></p>