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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1738415" data-attributes="member: 99">For what it's worth, I used Skum, Stirges and Shocker Lizards as encounters in my last campaign.  The Stirges and Shocker Lizards both inhabited portions of a tunnel dug by an insane Delver.  Later in the same campaign I used my first Beholder ever.The Skum were posed as a prelude encounter to a possible Aboleth but the party took another direction.  For the most party the party took it to the Skum pretty hard though one guy got netted and nearly drowned.  The Stirges were a nuisance that was exterminated very quickly thanks to the fact that the party Wizard Lightning Balled the whole party to kill them before they could enact any Con drain.  The Shocker Lizards were very nearly fatal to almost half the party (I used a group of about 15 or so against a group of 9-10th level PC's).I messed things up when running the Beholder and was only having him fire off one eye-beam a round for the first couple of rounds.  After that he got his act together and became more deadly but by then they party had inflicted heavy damage on him and took him down.  He did manage to Flesh to Stone the Rogue/Royal Explorer though (he got returned to flesh pretty quickly after that).  The party fled the scene as other bad guys appeared.  When they returned to the adventure area later, they were upset to find that the evil clerics had Raised the Beholder.  The party didn't know whether to tremble in fear or laugh when the Beholder with an eye-patch over his scarred main eye floated down out of a hole in the ceiling. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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