showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) (05/13/85)
> How to kill a beholder: > > 1. Take a ballista bolt or two and have a high-level mage shrink > them to crossbow bolt size. > > 2. Use a heavy crossbow to launch them at the beholder. > > 3. The beholder sees them coming, detects magic, and aims its anti- > magic ray at them. > > 4. The shrink is dispelled, the beholder is hit by the ballista > bolts which do it a world of hurt. > > My DM assures me that this technique, and variations on it, are the only > sure method he's heard of safely killing a beholder. > My friend's barbarian character just walked up to one and hit it twice with his two-handed sword. My magic-user character also killed one single-handed with a cone of cold. --Steve Howard, aka Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die! ...udenva!showard