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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7686102" data-attributes="member: 7006">I didn't call *you* stupid... I called the method for running the monsters that way stupid (in my opinion).  Your intelligence has nothing to do with it.  Lots of intelligent people (including myself) sometimes do stupid things-- or at least things that other people would say were stupid.  I've texted while driving-- something monumentally stupid.  And if someone called me out on it, said that was a stupid thing to do... I wouldn't ipso facto think they were calling me a stupid person, just that I did a stupid thing.  There's a difference there.  But if you took my statement as a slam against your intelligence, then I am sorry.  I was not.  I was slamming the tactic of running 20 goblins up one at a time to the fighter and then running back to avoid getting hit, as opposed to an actual "swarm" wherein 8 or more goblins all run up and surround the guy all at once.And frankly, I don't give a rat's ass if Mike said it was intentional for the rules to work that way.  Lots of rules get written that I think are stupid.  And thus... I change them or ignore them.  If other people are happy to run them that way, then great!  More power to them!  If you like the idea of a line of goblins all running up one at a time in a big circle to bonk the fighter on the head and then run back to safety... have a grand old time!  But I'm also not going to pretend like I think what you're doing is in any way something I'd ever want to run in my game, because even just visualizing it makes my eyeballs twitch.And as far as the actual tactics of pack animals and such... that'd be all well and good if real life combat actually mimicked the D&D rules.  But they don't.  Which is why we get a situation where the fighter (without this Tunnel Fighter style) only gets to whallop the first guy while the next 19 get to move up and then move back with no consequence because he only has one "Opportunity Attack".  Wheras in "real life" that fighter would be whacking probably at least half of them as they ran up and then ran back.  Especially considering there's not a single goblin at the very least staying up in the fighter's grill to draw the focus of the fighter away from the other 19 while they were doing it.So no... I've read enough of your posts to know you are not a stupid person, Mistwell, and am not calling you stupid.  I just think one of the tactics you use as a DM is.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  But then again... if you saw how I run my games, I'm fairly sure you'd find dozens of things I do that you'd think the same thing about.  So we're both on equal footing here.</blockquote>

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