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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 5902025" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Personal experience:The most recent D&amp;D 3.5 campaign I played in featured our (generally very good) DM making almost all of the creatures we fought choose targets based on MMO style aggro. Literally, at times he would be trying to think of who did the most damage to a creature last turn so that he'd make the monster attack them this turn.I hated that.I was playing a house-ruled variant wilder with the ability to put out enormous amounts of damage. So I routinely got targeted by monsters, even those who should have been intelligent enough to attack based on other criteria, simply because I put out a lot of damage in a single round.Do you know how I reacted?&nbsp; I started scaling back the damage. I couldn't play my character to his potential or he'd die too often.It's pretty absurd to me for that to be in D&amp;D. There are so many more effective ways to deal with threats than to just target whoever is hurting you the most. Heck, in some cases you might want to get *away* from them, and go after someone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 5902025, member: 6677017"] Personal experience: The most recent D&D 3.5 campaign I played in featured our (generally very good) DM making almost all of the creatures we fought choose targets based on MMO style aggro. Literally, at times he would be trying to think of who did the most damage to a creature last turn so that he'd make the monster attack them this turn. I hated that. I was playing a house-ruled variant wilder with the ability to put out enormous amounts of damage. So I routinely got targeted by monsters, even those who should have been intelligent enough to attack based on other criteria, simply because I put out a lot of damage in a single round. Do you know how I reacted? I started scaling back the damage. I couldn't play my character to his potential or he'd die too often. It's pretty absurd to me for that to be in D&D. There are so many more effective ways to deal with threats than to just target whoever is hurting you the most. Heck, in some cases you might want to get *away* from them, and go after someone else. [/QUOTE]

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