That is why I select the powers a Beholder uses, when I DM.
It isn’t random, when the Beholder kills you.🃏
I love Beholders.
AD&D Beholders, might be scarier, than 5e
AD&D Beholders, we’re glass cannons, but damn..AD&D Death Ray really killed you.
5e Death Ray,(in comparison), is a Dex save, for damage…and thus a Fugazi, (false), Death Ray. The poor ray isn’t even a Minor Threat to classes with Evasion.