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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 6416651" data-attributes="member: 75065">Honestly? I find your thinking very strange.So, on your logic, if you were fighting an orc in a bar, the orc couldn't pick up a chair and smack a PC over the back of the head with it ... because they don't have a power in their stat block that specifies they have that ability.First of all, rules are guidelines. Adding and changing things is a DMs perogative. And this perogative falls within the rules and the spirit of the game. Secondly, monsters don't function in isolation. Why can you imagine a situation where the town has either stockpiled vials of acid, or where the tarrasque has somehow fallen into the perfect ambush with perfecly set up triangulated archers at teh maximum distance with clear line of sight, all with magical bows and a massive stockpile of magical arrows, but struggle to understand that the DM would have the CR30 threat behave in ways outside of what appears directly written in its stat block? I am sure it has some vulnerabilities that would allow for clever PCs to have a chance of defeating it. But that does not take away from the fact that monsters are only as confined to their stat blocks as PCs are to their character sheets (There are certain defined powers within both, sure, but PCs can/should certainly not be limited and think outside of that, use the terrain etc. And so should monsters in that case). Having 3 INT would, in my view, certainly limit the type of behaviour such a creature would come up with (as you point out). But it also has a wisdom of 11. I would imagine it is smart enough to figure out when it is seriously threatened by something it can't reach and not simply lay down and die.For example, if it can't throw, why couldn't it smash a nearby building at you? It could easily use its tail to do that. I am sure that the shrapnel generated by such a creature would be fairly significant.</blockquote>

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