Heh. Illithid drain int each time they hit. When your int goes below one, your brain's been eaten, and needless to say, Minsc's no mental giant. My most-used tactic is casting chaotic commands on a couple of people - a dummy and a ranged attacker. Cast invisibility on the dummy and stand him in a doorway. The illithid can't see him, and they can't walk through the door to suck your party's brains out. Then get your ranged attacker to kill them all while the stupid squid-heads wonder why the door's impassible and shoot off psionic blasts randomly.
Spoiler: you need to kill big red to get the holy avenger. That's Firkraag.
|