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<blockquote data-quote="kouk" data-source="post: 4405421" data-attributes="member: 55992">I treat &quot;dumb&quot; things as generally aware of the marks and such, but that would still fall within not really &quot;understanding&quot; the full effects. A spider would get the idea the Fighter who marked him is causing him problems attacking the other PCs, but it may not be able to truly understand what the Fighter's goals are (protecting the team).A Challenged spider or bug might assume as long as it moves to retreat as opposed to forward or sideways, even if it happens to have an unconscious party member in its mouth, then the Fighter will just leave it alone rather than keep fighting.Creatures won't repeatedly make such mistakes, but if they have no experience with humanoids that behave similarly to the PCs, then they are likely to make at least one mistake as they initially treat the PCs as if they were just normal animals like it's used to.EDIT: In a related vein, untrained dumb animals are less likely to fight to the death than perhaps humanoids are, because they are purely thinking of their survival (unless the babies are threatened of course).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kouk, post: 4405421, member: 55992"] I treat "dumb" things as generally aware of the marks and such, but that would still fall within not really "understanding" the full effects. A spider would get the idea the Fighter who marked him is causing him problems attacking the other PCs, but it may not be able to truly understand what the Fighter's goals are (protecting the team). A Challenged spider or bug might assume as long as it moves to retreat as opposed to forward or sideways, even if it happens to have an unconscious party member in its mouth, then the Fighter will just leave it alone rather than keep fighting. Creatures won't repeatedly make such mistakes, but if they have no experience with humanoids that behave similarly to the PCs, then they are likely to make at least one mistake as they initially treat the PCs as if they were just normal animals like it's used to. EDIT: In a related vein, untrained dumb animals are less likely to fight to the death than perhaps humanoids are, because they are purely thinking of their survival (unless the babies are threatened of course). [/QUOTE]

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