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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2885596" data-attributes="member: 31734">IMO, the biggest thing to remember is that the eye rays are FREE actions.  You can take them at any point in the middle of other actions.  Thus, a beholder should be able to target all eye rays every round.  Concentrate them on one opponent until that opponent is finished, and keep going.The second biggest thing is location.  A beholder's lair is typically the only place it will want to be encountered.  Anywhere else and it would be on its guard and likely flee quickly if presented with any reasonable force.  It would easily identify the 'adventurer' type and escape, probably before they even notice it.For some excellent ideas on lairs, I highly recommend the 2e adventure modules by Thomas M. Reid: Eye of Pain, Eye of Doom, and Eye to Eye.</blockquote>