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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 1689662" data-attributes="member: 548">You know, as a DM I cringe whenever another DM puts the PC's up against a monster they shouldn't beat, and then ignores half that monster's abilities to allow an easy scry-buff-teleport win!Balors have constant True Seeing!  They see obscured objects.  They see invisible scry sensors.  Their +38 Spot should insure they DO see everything they CAN see.  If the Balor was aware of the scrying ability of the stone, he should have detected the PC's scrying and counter-scryed the PC himself.  He and his gang teleport in during round 2 or 3 of their buffing efforts.Failing that, he would certainly have one of his Vrock underlings cast Mirror Image on him (which they can do at will) at all times.  Potential grapplers will probably grapple an image or two before they get to him.  I believe Int 24 is enough that he has considered scry-buff-teleport and grappling strategies!The 30 Vrocks alone should have been a TPK.  There should appear to be about 200 of them (to be fair, maybe there really were only 5 or so, and Mirror Images made them seem to be 30).  Several of them use Stunning Screech each round, a few others start up a Dance of Ruin, and the others attack anyone who got stunned.  Some of them may think to cast Heroism on themselves (or perhaps they expended it attacking the village).</blockquote>