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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7286011" data-attributes="member: 15700">If your position is that high level opponents will get shredded by high level PCs, and the only example of you describing how you play high level opponents is as incompetent as in that thread, then you better believe it has bearing on this discussion because it tells the rest of us why you would have such a position when many others of us have completely different positions. That is, your opinion is hardly objective truth like you think it is, and you have no authority to tell other people they aren’t thinking hard enough if their opinion is different than yours. Because maybe they are actually playing the opponents competently and up to their ability, which obviously you don’t judging by the only examples of your play style we have.&nbsp; You want to play opponents as game pieces with no individual thought or reactions, and ignore some of their abilities?&nbsp; More power to you. But you don’t get to tell others they are wrong or not aware for not doing the same as you. Especially since the game is designed around the assumption that DMs will be running opponents as living beings with motivations where intelligence and flavor text actually matter and have an impact, and not non-thinking game pieces.Oh, and you are confusing “non optimal” with incompetent. Non optimal is not optimized for maximum affect, which is 90% of how most monsters are run. That does not mean you ignore abilities, behaviors, and thinking skills of the opponents. When you do that, you’re neutering them to incompetence. What you did is far less effective than not being optimized.&nbsp; You didn’t run those opponents non optimized, you ran them incompetently.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7286011, member: 15700"] If your position is that high level opponents will get shredded by high level PCs, and the only example of you describing how you play high level opponents is as incompetent as in that thread, then you better believe it has bearing on this discussion because it tells the rest of us why you would have such a position when many others of us have completely different positions. That is, your opinion is hardly objective truth like you think it is, and you have no authority to tell other people they aren’t thinking hard enough if their opinion is different than yours. Because maybe they are actually playing the opponents competently and up to their ability, which obviously you don’t judging by the only examples of your play style we have. You want to play opponents as game pieces with no individual thought or reactions, and ignore some of their abilities? More power to you. But you don’t get to tell others they are wrong or not aware for not doing the same as you. Especially since the game is designed around the assumption that DMs will be running opponents as living beings with motivations where intelligence and flavor text actually matter and have an impact, and not non-thinking game pieces. Oh, and you are confusing “non optimal” with incompetent. Non optimal is not optimized for maximum affect, which is 90% of how most monsters are run. That does not mean you ignore abilities, behaviors, and thinking skills of the opponents. When you do that, you’re neutering them to incompetence. What you did is far less effective than not being optimized. You didn’t run those opponents non optimized, you ran them incompetently. [/QUOTE]

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