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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 4008816" data-attributes="member: 39532">Only fought a mind flayer three times in my years of playing D&D, and none of them have been "best"-type encounters, because in a lot of cases it's an either/or type of fight (at least from what I've seen).Either you get the drop on them and wipe the floor with their slimy behinds in the opening round, or they mind blast and the heavy-hitters are out of the fight.Maybe the GM (three different ones) were just being bastards on those occasions.  Granted the opening round "drop 'em fast" was my Warblade and another player's Rogue setting up a combo of flanking Sneak Attack and Bonecrusher + Punishing Stance, which I doubt is typical.  Yeah we kicked its butt in short order, but that was half the problem.Then again, maybe with how they're being changed in 4e, I might one day have a "best fight" story against a Mind Flayer.</blockquote>