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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lu Wei Fong" data-source="post: 1487216" data-attributes="member: 15954">Intelligence and Wisdom are very important for determining how a monster fights, but there is something else I factor in as well. That is the circumstance of the fight. Your typical orc grunt will fight to the best of his malicious ability. When the tide is turned and he sees that his side will probably lose, he'll bail. However, if one of the PCs just slew one of his best friends since childhood or something, then chances are he'll go a little berserk and go all-out. Say the BBEG the PCs have been thwarting repeatedly is cornered by them again. First instinct? Go out that secret door, but maybe she's just so fed up with the party that she decides to make a stand and kill the *&#@ers. Maybe a pair of trolls who just saw one of their companions taken out by flankers will get the bright idea to copy what they saw and flank a PC.So yeah, while Intelligence and Wisdom are certianly the primary factors, somethimes a bizarre circumstance adds a little bit of flavor and feeling to the combat.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>