Beholders are kinda Iconic to Dungeons and Dragons though, as in, they're the freakin' mascot.
no matter how much you love Balors, or anything else with a "B" name, service to the brand dictates that they're not going to surpass Beholders by a large enough margin to edge them out.
Tell the Pigeons in the park I said "hi", when your ass gets petrified...
Or disintegrated, apparently they can do that too...
wow, how are you supposed to fight these things? they look at you and you've got so many status conditions, it's a wonder they haven't overrun the underdark.
Spells don't help; the Beholder's main eye constantly produces an anti-magic cone that negates almost anything, even enchantments that are below a certain level. (Determined by how the DM generates the Beholder's CR)
Your best hope is a really high-level monk and/or fighter if it's spotted you, or a rogue/assassin that can blind several eyes from stealth.
shield of the balduran can be bought in baldurs gate 2 from the adventurer's mart in waukeens promenade.
It reflects beholder rays making beholders a joke, you can basicly just walk into a room with 10 beholders and laugh your ass off while they kill themself.
IICR, there are next to none in the original BG. And even in BG2, they don't appear until pretty late in the game where you're more than well-equipped to handle them. In any case slap a few protection from evils and magic resistance or anti charm and petrification scrolls on your fighters and you'll be fine
there's still Charm Human & Beast, Petrification, Slow motion and causing grievous wounds according to wikipedia.
still a giant pile of " **** you" from the DM.
Rust Eater: AKA, the biggest asshole in existence.
Not that they're strong or hard to kill, they just EAT. METAL. All metal. All your gear? **** it. **** you. **** everything in the room, except your druid.
some friends of mine got into a game of DnD and allowed some odd rules
one quest they went into was to hunt down a vampire lord, went through his castle easy enough, got to the last room of the castle, DM said the vampire might not be there....
one player suggested using a mirror to peek in through the door, the others agreed.... i quietly facepalmed....
seeing no vampire in the mirror, they thought the vampire wasnt in there... the group go charging in to claim treasure...
i laugh my ass off as they all realize too late vampires dont make reflections in mirrors
most of them got ******* slaughtered, except for the elf player who ran like a bitch, and tried to hide in one of the other rooms.. and got swarmed by angry smurfs - the DM had a weird sense of humor
At first I thought it was about Tibia. Then I saw different monsters, and read the title. I highly recommend the game, but beware it is incredibly addictive.