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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6365146" data-attributes="member: 15700">I think the OP nailed it.  Taking into account natural intelligence, behavior, and the environment are important factors that should be considered.Firstly, most monsters do have additional abilities and they aren't just bags of hit points.  Comments like this make me think the laziness isn't with design, it's with the DM if all you think of them are just bags of HP.  Between the codified abilities they do have, along with the factors pointed out in the OP, and this comment doesn't make sense if you have even the most basically competent DM.But this also leads me to another observation.  You've done nothing but complain about 5e since the first playtest.  All you ever have to say about it are complaints and jabs.  So I gotta ask.  At what point will you participate in conversations about games you like, and stop the incessant complaining on those you don't?  I don't like 4e, but you don't see me going into 4e threads doing nothing but complaining about it.  I'd rather spend my time on threads that have topics about games I do enjoy.  I mean, obviously I can't make you do anything, but I'm curious why you would continue to subject yourself to a game you don't like.</blockquote>