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<blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 288601" data-attributes="member: 758">i am the dm for my group and i am guilty of example 1.i cheer when my monsters get a critical (well not really but i grin!) and sigh when the players critical and kill them off. This is only for big baddies mind you and not fodder critters.Do they hate me for it? nahh. They rahter like ganging up on me, it adds to the sense of bonding and unity. They are united to defeat me, which is the enemy, and move on to greater glory.Is this bad? I don't think so. They love finding flaws in my plan as even simple goblins now are running from them screaming in terror. If I got a 20 int mind flayer i am damn sure going to play them like a chessmaster and not some mindless wildebeast. Example: I had a dire boar charging through the woods running at the party. The lead tank moved in and attacked it, did it stop to attack him even though it got dealt massive damage? Heck no! it's pissed it's charging straight ahead! where was straight ahead? Right into the rogue! Now would a 3 int critter do this? Absolutely. Even though the fighter got an AoO it still went balls to the wall ahead to attack it's prey.&nbsp; It died but the rogue now has a fear of pork <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=":)" />have your DM read this thread, it will do him good..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leopold, post: 288601, member: 758"] i am the dm for my group and i am guilty of example 1. i cheer when my monsters get a critical (well not really but i grin!) and sigh when the players critical and kill them off. This is only for big baddies mind you and not fodder critters. Do they hate me for it? nahh. They rahter like ganging up on me, it adds to the sense of bonding and unity. They are united to defeat me, which is the enemy, and move on to greater glory. Is this bad? I don't think so. They love finding flaws in my plan as even simple goblins now are running from them screaming in terror. If I got a 20 int mind flayer i am damn sure going to play them like a chessmaster and not some mindless wildebeast. Example: I had a dire boar charging through the woods running at the party. The lead tank moved in and attacked it, did it stop to attack him even though it got dealt massive damage? Heck no! it's pissed it's charging straight ahead! where was straight ahead? Right into the rogue! Now would a 3 int critter do this? Absolutely. Even though the fighter got an AoO it still went balls to the wall ahead to attack it's prey. It died but the rogue now has a fear of pork :) have your DM read this thread, it will do him good.. [/QUOTE]

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