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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5169902" data-attributes="member: 58197">I certainly would not follow such advice in a game with adults. Classes that have low hit points have them for a reason; they're supposed to have other stuff that makes up for it. Steering damage away from them is unfair to the people who have &quot;paid&quot; for their superior hit points and are now getting hit more often. It's also unrealistic; any halfway intelligent monster is going to go for the squishy wizard over the armored fighter, unless the fighter stops it somehow. (It's not so much a question of focused fire as it is effort for payoff. If you were facing a guy in street clothes packing a machine gun, and a guy in Kevlar and riot gear packing a nightstick, which would you go after first?)With an adult DMing for kids, I think it's not a bad idea. Adults have a tremendous advantage over kids in terms of tactical sense. Advice like this is essentially bringing an adult DM down to a level where the kids can reasonably compete.If it's a kid DMing for other kids... nah, wouldn't recommend it. Don't want to inculcate bad habits in budding DMs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5169902, member: 58197"] I certainly would not follow such advice in a game with adults. Classes that have low hit points have them for a reason; they're supposed to have other stuff that makes up for it. Steering damage away from them is unfair to the people who have "paid" for their superior hit points and are now getting hit more often. It's also unrealistic; any halfway intelligent monster is going to go for the squishy wizard over the armored fighter, unless the fighter stops it somehow. (It's not so much a question of focused fire as it is effort for payoff. If you were facing a guy in street clothes packing a machine gun, and a guy in Kevlar and riot gear packing a nightstick, which would you go after first?) With an adult DMing for kids, I think it's not a bad idea. Adults have a tremendous advantage over kids in terms of tactical sense. Advice like this is essentially bringing an adult DM down to a level where the kids can reasonably compete. If it's a kid DMing for other kids... nah, wouldn't recommend it. Don't want to inculcate bad habits in budding DMs. :) [/QUOTE]

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