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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4573964" data-attributes="member: 54846">I think the sense of &quot;DM vs. Players' goes beyond how you play your monsters. It's a mindset, especially how you act towards your players. If the players attitude is &quot;Beat the DM&quot; or if the DM's attitude is to &quot;Try and kill/punish the PCs&quot;. It's personal.Remind your player that &quot;The DM vs. the Players&quot; means the players will lose, because the DM has all the power. He can send ninjas to shiv you in the privy, he can give you cancer, or have a meteor fall out of the sky. He can make the entire World jump down your throat. Everything you touch is a cursed item, every door is trapped, and every NPC is setting up an ambush. That's &quot;DM vs. Player&quot;.That's a far cry from the monsters acting intelligent. I think the monsters nto using appropriate tactics is a bad idea. Especially in a game with a tactiacl element. When you do that, it's not &quot;The DM vs the PCs&quot;, it's &quot;The player's characters vs. the DM's characters (which are NPCs).&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4573964, member: 54846"] I think the sense of "DM vs. Players' goes beyond how you play your monsters. It's a mindset, especially how you act towards your players. If the players attitude is "Beat the DM" or if the DM's attitude is to "Try and kill/punish the PCs". It's personal. Remind your player that "The DM vs. the Players" means the players will lose, because the DM has all the power. He can send ninjas to shiv you in the privy, he can give you cancer, or have a meteor fall out of the sky. He can make the entire World jump down your throat. Everything you touch is a cursed item, every door is trapped, and every NPC is setting up an ambush. That's "DM vs. Player". That's a far cry from the monsters acting intelligent. I think the monsters nto using appropriate tactics is a bad idea. Especially in a game with a tactiacl element. When you do that, it's not "The DM vs the PCs", it's "The player's characters vs. the DM's characters (which are NPCs)." [/QUOTE]

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