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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marcelvdpol" data-source="post: 6939201" data-attributes="member: 6837387">What i liked about 4th edition was that playing a monster according to his strengths almost automatically succeeded in playing a monster according to it fluff.Playing strahd effectively is a skill that the dm needs. If there are dms struggling with it then the book doesn't do enough to help them. There should at the very least be several example encounters in the book with descriptions of how strahd would behave and what tactics should be employed for that encounter. This allows springing some encounters with strahd on the party. And the section on strahd should contain a description on how to insert strahd into an encounter effectively (this is separate from the "how to roleplay strahd"). I haven't read the book myself (i'm a player in the campaign) so i don't know if this section is there.The dm has a much harder task compared to the players; players grow with their character and will learn the best tactics to use for their character but the dm has to know the best tactics for lots of different monsters just from reading a stat block. There should be a description of tactics with every monster otherwise a dm might fail to play the monster in such a way that the monster poses the challenge its challenge rating / xp promised.</blockquote>