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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 2095773" data-attributes="member: 70">The only thing that springs immediately to mind.... I was playing a gnome illusionist character, and for some reason had come a bit late to the game -- the group was just about finished getting their behinds handed to them by a half-dragon chimera.  They were still doing quite a bit of damage, though, and the chimera decided to call it a draw and escape up the (relatively) narrow shaft in the cavern ceiling. (Caveat: this DM had a well known tendency to playing fast and loose with the rules, especially for dramatic purposes.  So, yes, I took a gamble he'd let the spell work how I wanted, and he did.) I'd had trouble pinning the chimera down earlier, but the narrow shaft was perfect.  The chimera (big hit points, little Will save) rolled a 2 vs my phantasmal force, and was grappled, slapped around, and tossed to the ground by the Evardian tentacles that sprouted from the shaft walls -- or thought he was. In any case, he stopped flying, and falling damage finished what the other PCs had started. As a DM, I think the PC's mouths dropped the furthest when they met the beholder with several eyestalks amputated and capped with iron, and a great big ring in its headm hooked to a chain "leash".  They were terrified to meet whatever was bad enough to multilate and enslave a beholder.... CheersNell.</blockquote>