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<blockquote data-quote="radmod" data-source="post: 5262267" data-attributes="member: 93008">&quot;So, how do you get your fellow gamers to up their game a bit?&quot;As both a player and a DM, I tend to be very tactical.As a player, sometimes there is absolutely no help for other players. Just do the best you can with them, and let them fry in their own situations. For example, I've sat back and let the idiot hack-n-slasher run up and get beat on. Then we he came asking for healing I would deny it or give him just enough to stay alive. That generally gets them thinking quickly.Most of all, it depends on your actual character. For example, I'm playing an evil character who pretty much doesn't care what happens to the party just himself, so he forces tactics when necessary for his own survival.As a DM, I use tactics according to the abilities of the monsters. A band of raging orcs wouldn't be as tactically smart as a well-trained group of soldiers. In addition, if players do something stupid, I might take advantage of it as an object lesson for them. However, often times my groups have spent literally hours preparing to sneak in, or &quot;back-door&quot; an encounter but then wind up doing a frontal attack anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="radmod, post: 5262267, member: 93008"] "So, how do you get your fellow gamers to up their game a bit?" As both a player and a DM, I tend to be very tactical. As a player, sometimes there is absolutely no help for other players. Just do the best you can with them, and let them fry in their own situations. For example, I've sat back and let the idiot hack-n-slasher run up and get beat on. Then we he came asking for healing I would deny it or give him just enough to stay alive. That generally gets them thinking quickly. Most of all, it depends on your actual character. For example, I'm playing an evil character who pretty much doesn't care what happens to the party just himself, so he forces tactics when necessary for his own survival. As a DM, I use tactics according to the abilities of the monsters. A band of raging orcs wouldn't be as tactically smart as a well-trained group of soldiers. In addition, if players do something stupid, I might take advantage of it as an object lesson for them. However, often times my groups have spent literally hours preparing to sneak in, or "back-door" an encounter but then wind up doing a frontal attack anyway. [/QUOTE]

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