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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7957600" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>A blog (and now book) "The Monsters Know What They Are Doing" gives you one fellow's analysis. I paged through the book and think other DMs should at least take a look-see at it.</p><p></p><p>One factor I used when I was DM'ing a Tiamat campaign: do these monsters have a history with the PCs, or is it the first time they met? If they fought before (or belong to an organization whose members would tell each other about the experience) the enemies acted 'smarter' than those who never heard of the PCs before.</p><p>For assassination attempts, the enemy collects intelligence on the PCs before the fight ever begins; then he / they do everything <em>you</em> can think of to mess the PCs over and kill them dead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7957600, member: 6803337"] A blog (and now book) "The Monsters Know What They Are Doing" gives you one fellow's analysis. I paged through the book and think other DMs should at least take a look-see at it. One factor I used when I was DM'ing a Tiamat campaign: do these monsters have a history with the PCs, or is it the first time they met? If they fought before (or belong to an organization whose members would tell each other about the experience) the enemies acted 'smarter' than those who never heard of the PCs before. For assassination attempts, the enemy collects intelligence on the PCs before the fight ever begins; then he / they do everything [I]you[/I] can think of to mess the PCs over and kill them dead. [/QUOTE]
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