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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 273793" data-attributes="member: 259">So we've got 300 archers and a beholder who somehow manage to ambush a balor.Surprise round:Beholder opens antimagic eye300 archers fire at balor.Balor is hit, on average, by 5% of shots, or 15 arrows, for 67 points of damage.  One of those shots may critical (chances are it won't, however), upping damage to 76 points of damage.Balor looks displeasedFirst round:Balor wins initiativeBalor flies up and behind beholderBalor teleports to a local evil temple.Archers and beholder realize that maybe this wasn't such a good idea.Second-seventh rounds:Balor commands all the local evil priests to heal him, posthasteArchers and beholder look for places to hideEighth round:Balor teleports 500 feet above the battle.Archers and beholder, swearing, scatter.Ninth round:Balor [edit:  having disguised himself as a Beholder, you happy now, Karinsdad? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />] drops down to 250 feet above ambush site and casts fire storm.Archers and beholder fry.Tenth round:Balor checks stopwatch.  Another threat defeated in less than a minute.Note that if the archers have evasion, then some of them may live; the beholder, however, is very likely to die (20d6 points of damage = 70 points damage on average, or 35 points if it rolls 18 or better on its reflex save).  And once the beholder is dead, the archers don't stand a chance.I wouldn't give this ambush even odds of success.  Make it 500 archers and three beholders, and I'd be willing to give it even odds.  Of course, 500 1st-level fighters should be CR 19, roughly.  So that's not too far off.Daniel</blockquote>

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