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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verdande" data-source="post: 5274510" data-attributes="member: 69093">The best thing to determine what the monster's tactics is to play to their strengths, which is what any monster, regardless of its intelligence, would do. If you've got a band of orcs, they're going to use their animalistic rage and probably not a lot of sublety. If you've got some drow, you better believe they're going to use ambushes and liberal darkness spells and combined arms tactics.No monster, no matter how stupid, is going to charge in mindlessly to their death. Even the dumbest of animal knows to run away if the fight isn't going well. Everybody has an instinct for self-preservation, and it's important to factor that in when fighting. Older editions had a morale score for monsters, and I think that's something that could really stand to come back into newer games.</blockquote>