[SixOfSpades]

The Mind Flayer/Cloudkill thing has been flying around for some time, but there's a fine line between cheese and good roleplay here. True, the Wands are devastating against them, but Mind Flayers are supposed to be the most intelligent race on the planet--so the fact that they're dumb enough to stay in the area of a Cloudkill is just exploiting a weakness in the AI, and therefore, cheese.

What I do is go *around* the cheese: if there's a group I want to Cloudkill, I send Invisible or Stealthed people around them, placing one on the OUTside of every exit from that room. Then they close the doors, presumably barring them, or wedging them shut with a sword blade, and voila--My inner roleplayer now has a room full of Mind Flayers trapped in a small room, and all the intelligence in the world isn't going to help them open a barred door. Cloudkill time.