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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: Beholder killing
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 12:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 12:55:09 1985
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> 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