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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7743777" data-attributes="member: 6785785">So what? Superman need not kill Lex to stop him. He can just as easily scoop him up and throw him in a jail cell in less than a second. Or freeze him with his breath, or whatever. It's not about Superman's capability. It's about Lex's. How come Lex is Superman's arch nemesis? How can that be when, as you say, Superman can mop the floor with him?It's because the writers telling the stories don't just write a boxing match between the two. Lex is smart and behaves so and tries to remain steps ahead of Superman. To apply this to this thread and similar discussions.....have the bad guys behave like they have a brain. It's not about the stat number in the INT entry so much as what that should mean. Use your knowledge of the players' plans to substitute for the monster's genius intellect. Have it "predict" what they will do and plan accordingly. Someone gave the example where the PCs would hole up in the Abyss for a few days and observe the Sibriex and then use their observations to gain advantage. Yet it seems that many DMs refuse to do similar preparation for their monsters. Why wouldn't the Sibriex do the same kind of thing? Why wouldn't it have defenses in place that allow it to thwart such preparations on the part of the PCs? The answer is that it absolutely should do such things.Instead, it sits around and waits to be ambushed by the PCs. And then the DM faults the stat block. It's mind bogglingly odd.</blockquote>

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