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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7463394" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>My personal opinion :</p><p></p><p>An encounter with lots of small monsters can benefit from doing lots of attacks (action economy) BUT it makes a HUGE difference whether they concentrate their attacks on a single PC or spread them around. </p><p></p><p>A single powerful monster usually always focus on a single target (unless you make it change each round).</p><p></p><p>Tactically, it is always convenient to focus fire. But from a gaming point of view, it is very risky for the DM because losing a PC obviously doesn't have the same weight on the game as losing a monster. This is metagaming territory, but usually I cringe when I hear DMs claiming that the realism of war should take precedence, and I wonder if they've ever thought how action <em>movies</em> would last 5 minutes if they were realistic.</p><p></p><p>Because of that, I am generally more worried when using a single big monster because I know that it can kill a PC just by winning initiative, even if in the course of the whole encounter it might have a lesser damaging impact on the whole PC party. But as a DM I would MUCH prefer to have an encounter that ends with all PCs down to few HP but still alive, than having one dead PC and all the others unscathed!</p><p></p><p>As a player, I would fear the focused-fired monster army even more, but as a DM I always have control over that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7463394, member: 1465"] My personal opinion : An encounter with lots of small monsters can benefit from doing lots of attacks (action economy) BUT it makes a HUGE difference whether they concentrate their attacks on a single PC or spread them around. A single powerful monster usually always focus on a single target (unless you make it change each round). Tactically, it is always convenient to focus fire. But from a gaming point of view, it is very risky for the DM because losing a PC obviously doesn't have the same weight on the game as losing a monster. This is metagaming territory, but usually I cringe when I hear DMs claiming that the realism of war should take precedence, and I wonder if they've ever thought how action [I]movies[/I] would last 5 minutes if they were realistic. Because of that, I am generally more worried when using a single big monster because I know that it can kill a PC just by winning initiative, even if in the course of the whole encounter it might have a lesser damaging impact on the whole PC party. But as a DM I would MUCH prefer to have an encounter that ends with all PCs down to few HP but still alive, than having one dead PC and all the others unscathed! As a player, I would fear the focused-fired monster army even more, but as a DM I always have control over that. [/QUOTE]
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