The one in the final battle is from a mod, I'm pretty sure. You do have to kill a beholder as part of the drow city questline, though. Not the elder orb, but the one Phaere thinks is an elder orb. Te… (View Post)

Rust monsters are the only monster in D&D that I know to provoke a "nuke the site from orbit" reaction from players. One friend of mine once dropped two Maximized Flamestrikes on a sing… (View Post)

I'd say yes on both counts. Outside of Silver Age comic books, evil people don't tend to think of themselves as evil, and most of them don't revel in doing harm or anything like that. It sounds like … (View Post)

@deltago, I just tested, and it doesn't seem to work that way. In fact, the bard song doesn't even seem to be very effective when it's up. The character spends about half the time panicked when the b… (View Post)

This might not be news to some of you, but it's devastatingly powerful, and I've never seen anyone mention it. Durlag's Goblet in BG1 is a 6-use full-heal potion that drastically lowers morale for 24… (View Post)