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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4980310" data-attributes="member: 4937">It's amazing how easy it is to misunderstand me when you don't read what I said or you carefully excise the answers to your questions from the part of the text you quote.Indeed, &quot;So.&quot;, as I said, this would cause nothing more than raised eyebrows, but I then went on to explain how the general case of not roleplaying an NPC's stats turned into a specific case that would irritate many players.So you've never had a player offended that oozes, animals, vermin and zombies recognized technology, evaded ambushes, detected traps, set ambushes, used highly coordinated group tactics (other than swarming), and set the terrain to evade missile weapons?&nbsp; You as a player would think that was good DMing and good roleplaying on the part of the DM?&nbsp; And as a DM, you don't think that by making a gelatinous cube or a zombie act with all the diabolical cleverness of a supergenious, that you might in fact be harming the characterization of your mastermind BBEG?&nbsp; Forget D&amp;D for a second, is it good characterization to have the Killer Croc, Blob or Sabertooth act with all the intelligence and cunning Lex Luther, Magneto, Brainiac or Ra's al Ghul?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4980310, member: 4937"] It's amazing how easy it is to misunderstand me when you don't read what I said or you carefully excise the answers to your questions from the part of the text you quote. Indeed, "So.", as I said, this would cause nothing more than raised eyebrows, but I then went on to explain how the general case of not roleplaying an NPC's stats turned into a specific case that would irritate many players. So you've never had a player offended that oozes, animals, vermin and zombies recognized technology, evaded ambushes, detected traps, set ambushes, used highly coordinated group tactics (other than swarming), and set the terrain to evade missile weapons? You as a player would think that was good DMing and good roleplaying on the part of the DM? And as a DM, you don't think that by making a gelatinous cube or a zombie act with all the diabolical cleverness of a supergenious, that you might in fact be harming the characterization of your mastermind BBEG? Forget D&D for a second, is it good characterization to have the Killer Croc, Blob or Sabertooth act with all the intelligence and cunning Lex Luther, Magneto, Brainiac or Ra's al Ghul? [/QUOTE]

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