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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 3147662" data-attributes="member: 12388"><p>For my Forgotten Realms Campaign I just got done using a trio of heavily armored Hive Mothers, an Elder Orb Sorcerer, a Death Tyrant and a cadre of Directors against the Epic PCs my players run (with Sand Giants from MM III --who happen to make <em>great</em> meat shields/surprise and hack PCs to death <15-20 threat range, even within an Anti-Magic cone> peons for Beholders via the giant’s <em>Statue</em> and <em>Meld Into Stone</em> abilities).</p><p></p><p>FYI: Mix in two PC arcane casters that can themselves <em>Shapechange</em> into Beholders and things rapidly dwindle down to a game of ‘gotcha last’ with the Anti Magic cones.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I used all these as part of an upgrade to the <em>Beholder’s Lair</em> mini-adventure from <em>Mysteries of the Moonsea</em>; with the lair itself changed to be an underground portion of Bane’s Temple at Zhentil Keep.</p><p></p><p>Prior to this I’ve pitted Beholders against my players at least twice that I can recall. On one of those occasions I ran a pair of mind-slaved Beholders against the PCs (beholders controlled by Muriel the Mad, himself zinged in the head by Halaster himself, thank you very much) in the depths of the Undermountain in a massive circular chamber with a false (illusionary) ceiling. All that work and the Beholders still managed to fail to surprise the PCs (curse you a thousand times over, oh biased and benevolent, all-seeing, loves PCs more than DMs God of Dice).</p><p></p><p>J. Grenemyer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy E Grenemyer, post: 3147662, member: 12388"] For my Forgotten Realms Campaign I just got done using a trio of heavily armored Hive Mothers, an Elder Orb Sorcerer, a Death Tyrant and a cadre of Directors against the Epic PCs my players run (with Sand Giants from MM III --who happen to make [i]great[/i] meat shields/surprise and hack PCs to death <15-20 threat range, even within an Anti-Magic cone> peons for Beholders via the giant’s [i]Statue[/i] and [i]Meld Into Stone[/i] abilities). FYI: Mix in two PC arcane casters that can themselves [i]Shapechange[/i] into Beholders and things rapidly dwindle down to a game of ‘gotcha last’ with the Anti Magic cones. Anyway, I used all these as part of an upgrade to the [i]Beholder’s Lair[/i] mini-adventure from [i]Mysteries of the Moonsea[/i]; with the lair itself changed to be an underground portion of Bane’s Temple at Zhentil Keep. Prior to this I’ve pitted Beholders against my players at least twice that I can recall. On one of those occasions I ran a pair of mind-slaved Beholders against the PCs (beholders controlled by Muriel the Mad, himself zinged in the head by Halaster himself, thank you very much) in the depths of the Undermountain in a massive circular chamber with a false (illusionary) ceiling. All that work and the Beholders still managed to fail to surprise the PCs (curse you a thousand times over, oh biased and benevolent, all-seeing, loves PCs more than DMs God of Dice). J. Grenemyer [/QUOTE]
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