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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3529569" data-attributes="member: 18701">The Beholder was sent to investigate a strange occurance that affected a nearby Beholder dwelling. He's been roaming around looking for answers and killing whatever it finds useless to it. He'll start off asking the PC's questions.We left off right when everyone spotted the Beholder. Everyone is freaked out about it. The adventure calls for the Beholder to attack them when he's finished questioning the PC's, but I might let the PC's avoid the encounter if they treat it with respect because...For one, they average ECL 8 (more like 9 though) so it would be a very hard fight. They've been 'killing first, using speak dead second' a lot for a long time now. So I also saw this as a chance to humble them and remind them that they can't just attack everything they see. So fighting it isn't a must.I'm also worried that one of the players went directly home and pulled out his MM so he can read up on the Beholder and it's stats. I'm not the only one in the group that thinks he might have done this. So if I throw a Beholder at them some other time, that metagaming knowledge might be forgotten.Maybe I can twist things around and make him question them, then leave. But then some Gauth minions come floating down from behind the hills to do what their master didn't feel like doing.</blockquote>