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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4786111" data-attributes="member: 31216">Well, I nor anyone else at the table had any problem with the actions of the lions. I still have no problem with the actions.Or put even another way, there is no action a DM can take that someone on some discussion forum can't find fault with.Many years ago, in my AD&amp;D1 campaign, a pack of wolves were attacking the PCs. I had the wolves run up to the PCs, and as #1, #2, and #3 filled up the area in front of each PC, wolves #4+ circled around to the flanks to attack.At least one of the Players chided me for having the wolves act like brilliant tacticians by going for flanking. He really rode me about that even after I explained that I was just moving the wolves up to attack, rather than having them all wait in line (the battle was in the wilderness) for their turn to attack. I thought any creature would act like this.I continued to catch Hell for that &quot;tactic&quot; for months after that fight, until one game session, another Player mentioned he had seen on TV a show about wolves. The show explained that wolves often surround their prey and attack from all sides. In fact, the show said, some general made his officers watch a wolf fight in an arena so they would see how effective the tactic was.So not only did that Player shut up his whining about the tactic, but the other Players ribbed him for a while about how he was out-done by basic animal tactics.Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 4786111, member: 31216"] Well, I nor anyone else at the table had any problem with the actions of the lions. I still have no problem with the actions. Or put even another way, there is no action a DM can take that someone on some discussion forum can't find fault with. Many years ago, in my AD&D1 campaign, a pack of wolves were attacking the PCs. I had the wolves run up to the PCs, and as #1, #2, and #3 filled up the area in front of each PC, wolves #4+ circled around to the flanks to attack. At least one of the Players chided me for having the wolves act like brilliant tacticians by going for flanking. He really rode me about that even after I explained that I was just moving the wolves up to attack, rather than having them all wait in line (the battle was in the wilderness) for their turn to attack. I thought any creature would act like this. I continued to catch Hell for that "tactic" for months after that fight, until one game session, another Player mentioned he had seen on TV a show about wolves. The show explained that wolves often surround their prey and attack from all sides. In fact, the show said, some general made his officers watch a wolf fight in an arena so they would see how effective the tactic was. So not only did that Player shut up his whining about the tactic, but the other Players ribbed him for a while about how he was out-done by basic animal tactics. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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