Early in the game I live in continual fear of running into one of the random groups from the Weimer's Tactics module. They have high hit points, impressive weapons, seemingly limitless haste spells. They attack weaker party members first and don’t know when to quit. All in all it’s like fighting my own party.
True they have great stuff but I spend most of my earnings from them at a local temple buying band-aids +3.
After I level up enough they aren’t so bad. But then I have to deal with the mind flayers. I hate them largely because I usually my PC isn’t the brainiest person around.

I've just installed the new expanded thieve's guild module and that includes some enhanced random encounters. First time I met some I'd just finished the slaver quest and had walked out of the front door to head back to the Copper coronet. It autopaused when the enemy was spotted so I looked around and spotted just a couple of thugs, no problem, even for a solo level 11 Assassin. Unfortunately I missed the mage and cleric (normally the first two targets in any combat) who proceeded to wipe the floor with me, until I ran into Gaelen Bayle's home to hide! It's amazing how many high level magic users have nothing better to do than mug you [img]smile.gif[/img]

First time I ran into them I wasnt aware that their mighty hammers would strike me down in two hits...
They are pretty easy to take out if you got an archer in your party thou. You can just run around them shooting arrows at them till they fall, and they are too slow to ever catch up on you ;)

Most annoying Monster in ToB...hmm lemme see, I havent got trough ToB yet but the most annoying monster I have encountered so far would be the Imps in the watchers keep whom are casting wild magic. I had 50k gold and they got the destroy gold on target roll and bam 47k of gold were gone... ARGH! And it didn't help much when all my party members got hiccup...hiccup is the most darn annoying thing in real life as well!!!

Most Hated Enemy has got to be Beholders. You mean they have infinite Death Spells, and their Anti-Magic Rays instantly dispel *ALL* of my protection spells? Oh, well thank you very much.

I don't like Mind Flayers either, although for roleplaying reasons. How is it that they can do their Psionic Blasts on creatures halfway across the map? And, since they're supposed to be able to detect the thoughts of any intelligent creatures, how can they POSSIBLY be Backstabbed? And yet I find that Backstabbing is devastatingly effective against them. Poorly done.

If Cespenar is a bad guy (he is the butler in hell after all), then he gets my vote for most loathed.

I cannot stand having him go through the pack mumbling and squealing everytime I get back to the pocket plane.

Even more frustrating...

You can't kill him.

I agree with Six Of Spades on this beholders are IMO the most annoying(that's if your not using the cloak of cheese or shield of balduran of course).

Probably annoying but not to hard. A swift, destructive attack will always do the job [img]smile.gif[/img] The shorter they live the less chaos thay can unleash...

Liches, Midflayers, or Goblins [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Mind Flayers are #1 on my list Then beholders then Drow.... I had so much trouble with the Drow when I played through a couple of years ago I almost threw my monitor out the window.....

LOL! :D
Yes, without uber items - the Cloak, the Shield, the Scroll or the Staff, Beholders are a pain.

However, you shouldn't be bothered with Anti-Magic Rays. ;)
For more info, check out Spell Shield's description in the Spell Reference. I'm rather proud of that one. [img]smile.gif[/img]