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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6278712" data-attributes="member: 58172">Where does the Lamia live? The desert.The false answer, ‘Because Grazzt’, *fails* to answer this question.Why does the Lamia exist? To eat hearts. The false answer, ‘Because Grazzt’, fails this question. (Ok, why hearts, still needs an answer.)What motivates the Lamia? The Lamia likes to use illusions to trick its prey, then attack it by surprise while its guard is down.Why does the Lamia often associate with the Jackalwere? The Lamia only eats the hearts, so the Jackalweres can eat the rest of the carcass afterward. Both of them are tricksters, who enjoy elaborate deceptions to attack a helpless victim. Often the Lamia lures the victim while the Jackalwere puts the victim to sleep.Even if there is a Human ‘cultist’, why would the ‘cultist’ risk personal safety by associating with monsters like Lamia and Jackalwere? Such a question still requires an answer. To the degree ‘Because Grazzt’ is absent from the answer, the real answer becomes more plausible, more interesting, more interrelational, and more useful to the DM when deciding how the monsters respond during an encounter.The Planescape Setting Guide lists specific NPCs (leaders, gods, archfey, archdevils, demon lords, primordeals, etcetera) to give ideas for an *adventure* that might run into certain monsters.But the Planescape Monster Manual needs to give ideas for what happens during an *encounter* with a monster.</blockquote>

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