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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plavi" data-source="post: 523041" data-attributes="member: 8795">I know what you mean, but I do not agree. Alzheimer is an illness that lets you forget things. It doesn't make you stupid. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Just as a lizard isn't stupid. If it thinks it can eat you, it will attack you. If you prod it, it bites you. If you are an enemy, it spits at you (some of them). If you look too dangerous, it runs/flies/swims away. These have nothing to do with intelligence, but with generation upon generation of inborn, genetic habits that it has the second it is born.And that is the way I see it with demons too. A Balor doesn't go to Balor kindergarten or read a manual 'how-to-smite-your-foes-using-magical-fire'. He just does. Doesn't think about it, doesn't learn it, just lashes out with whatever it is at a thought's notice.  To the Balor the Teleport isn't some fifth level spell, he just kinda offhandedly decides he wants to be somewhere else, and voilá, there he is. Doesn't think about the how and why, just happens like that, always has happened like that, allways will. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The fact he may not use his powers cleverly or see through the character's illusions or whatever... that's something different of course.I concede to you that it will not recognize the fact it is at a distance against some foes is better than agains others: if it is a Demon that has huge distance attacks, it will at all costs try to protect itself that way, or give up if the characters are protected against his fireballs. Likewise, a HTH monster demonic whatever will always close in for the kill, even if the party looks like just 6 tank-fighters loaded with HTH equipment. That's their thing, that's what they do.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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