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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 5168754" data-attributes="member: 221">I think losing is underrated as a teachable moment.  Its nice to win but its important to learn how to handle setbacks and losses, cuz life is full of them.  And there's nothing like having a character die to realize that you really messed up.  Still and all, while I don't make combat grueling for my offspring, I would never take it to the extremes of having the monsters stupidly decide to hit someone else each round.  Even for young players, I try and have a set of parameters for the monsters: Stupid, mindless monsters go for the one in front of them.  Stupid aggressive monsters go for the one that hurt them the most last.  Intelligent aggressive monsters go for the weakest looking.  etc. etc.  And if they are really young players, I will tell them afterwards why the monster did what it did so they pick up on the idea that these foes do think things through.Of course, I've been playing with my kids now for eight years or so (the oldest is 13) and they are starting to get much more tactically minded.  So my monsters have been too.</blockquote>