[andrewas]

magness, anyone with a cloak of mirroring/shield of balduran can clear out a beholder civilisation by themselves. beholders have no meelee/regular magic (those that do are shunned) and beholder rays are reflected, 100% of the time. if there are gauths around then you dont even have to hit them, since they do damage with their rays. most beholders do more domination and confusion. theres a post by memnoch on page 2 with precise details on the PnP version. the BG version is somewhat differrent.

while im re-reading the top of this topic, i see that no ones mentioned that:

SPOILER. well, kinda
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the elder eye stalk is on the elder orb in the very first chamber, along with a piece of the equaliser. these are the only major,essential items in the dungeon AFAIK.