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<blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 655152" data-attributes="member: 78">Those tactics are a general guide for DMs dealing with unfamilar creatures.&nbsp; For any given situation they won't be the best choices.&nbsp; They won't spoil things any more than before if players reading the monster manual unless the DM is too lazy or whatever to use better tactics or if the player is too stupid to figure out how to use the abilities himself.EDIT:For example, maybe the Pit Fiend uses its Quickened summon ability, then teleports away.&nbsp; It returns in 20 or so rounds with Unholy Aura, etc running so the group's mass haste.&nbsp; If evidence suggests that only one character can see invis, then it uses its Quicken power to unload a single targeted Meteor Swarm and Power Word Stun into that creature, then goes to town with improved invisibility.&nbsp; With the version in the MM, a DM could annoy characters without True Seeing by making use of its Major Image power.&nbsp; Go invis, then teleport out of detection range.&nbsp; When an image appears, the party has no reason to believe it isn't the Pit Fiend teleporting back.&nbsp; Rinse and repeat.&nbsp; There are a great many tricks to play with a wide variety of spell like powers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victim, post: 655152, member: 78"] Those tactics are a general guide for DMs dealing with unfamilar creatures. For any given situation they won't be the best choices. They won't spoil things any more than before if players reading the monster manual unless the DM is too lazy or whatever to use better tactics or if the player is too stupid to figure out how to use the abilities himself. EDIT: For example, maybe the Pit Fiend uses its Quickened summon ability, then teleports away. It returns in 20 or so rounds with Unholy Aura, etc running so the group's mass haste. If evidence suggests that only one character can see invis, then it uses its Quicken power to unload a single targeted Meteor Swarm and Power Word Stun into that creature, then goes to town with improved invisibility. With the version in the MM, a DM could annoy characters without True Seeing by making use of its Major Image power. Go invis, then teleport out of detection range. When an image appears, the party has no reason to believe it isn't the Pit Fiend teleporting back. Rinse and repeat. There are a great many tricks to play with a wide variety of spell like powers. [/QUOTE]

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