Useful tricks

Summon monsters to be used as cannon fodder. You can buff them up with magic, too.

 

Bodaks, just fought them for the first time a few days ago. BY the time you face them you are high enough lvl that a ftr with some buffs from clerics boosts their fort save enough to stand up against their death attacks, but still with TOEE's infamous borked dice rolls, you WILL surely see a few critical failures on save rolls. My Pally died to one inspite of the fact that his fort save unbuffed is so high the only way he could fall is if he crit failed...

Just to be safe in case the die rolls go stupid on you, use common battlefield control tactics like web (and Lareth's ring of freedom on one meleer perhaps) and kill them from range while they waste time trying to break free of the web. Keep rogues away from them, they have lousy fort saves.