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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6859405" data-attributes="member: 12731">You have a lot of compelling arguments,  but here you take it too far.The hard truth is that at its very core, D&D is still a game played for entertainment purposes. Nobody wants it to mimic the way video game foes hurl themselves at the heroes blades and die by the hundreds......but at its core, that is still what the game is about. I'm not saying I'm exactly okay with giants being snacks for low level adventurers and even big dragons being one-shotted by more experienced heroes.But. At the very end the game can't and shouldn't simulate reality. Monsters and bad guys must and should underestimate the heroes over and over again.If you critically examine each action taken by the enemy side, you would find that they are very suboptimal. In part because the DM has other things to do, but mainly because the overwhelming majority of foes should be played as straightforward thugs running at the immediate threat.So don't do that. Don't worry about every decision by every monster.The purpose of the monsters is to entertain the players. The purpose of the DM is to present a credible illusion that's not the case. [emoji6]</blockquote>