The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters. Keith Ammann

The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters


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  • The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters
  • Keith Ammann
  • Page: 560
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  • ISBN: 9781982122669
  • Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
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From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.

Drow Tactics, Part 1 - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
The basic Monster Manual drow is stronger than my hypothetical drow per page 249 of the Dungon Master's Guide) with a glowing outline So here's our profile of drow combat: They patrol their caverns in darkness, using Stealth. . “I' ve always said, the Dungeon Master is the whole world except for his  Roper Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
Another monster classic, the roper is a dungeon predator/scavenger that perhaps dungeon masters never consciously consider that ropers  Harpy Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
Getting back to garden-variety monsters, today I examine the harpy, ability contour doesn't suggest any one characteristic fighting style, it makes sense its encounter multiplier would be 1.5 (per Dungeon Master's Guide,  Fey Tactics: Pixies, Sprites and Dryads - The Monsters Know What
It's interesting that Dungeons and Dragons has always chosen to portray fey master, don't go out of your way to be fair to players who are picking on pixies. Sprites' ideal combat range is 40 feet: near enough for normal . I know other monster types also have synergy, but the designers do seem to  Wyvern Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
The wyvern, a beast-grade member of the dragon family, is in most respects if its opponents have Extra Attack, and if they're fighting a monster with a . “I've always said, the Dungeon Master is the whole world except for his  Beasts Archives - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
However, to talk about their having “tactics” is to give them too much credit, and I' m only Usually, this indicates a preference for fighting in numbers, but snakes are “I've always said, the Dungeon Master is the whole world except for his  Owlbear Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
The first monstrosity I'll examine is a D&D classic, the owlbear: a In fifth-edition Dungeons & Dragons, “monstrosities” are monsters that still above-average) Dexterity—which means its preferred fighting style will be direct assault. . “I've always said, the Dungeon Master is the whole world except for his  Troll Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
Troll Tactics Trolls are great—if you use the Loathsome Limbs variant. damage doesn't even reduce a character's or monster's efficacy in combat. As a dungeon master, I allow a troll to pick up and reattach one severed  What Monsters Want - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
We interrupt our irregularly scheduled monster tactics to share a bowl of tactics of monsters, with the goal of helping dungeon masters make . Ultimately, a monster's choices, in or out of combat, are a function of this  Kuo-toa Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
Old-school Dungeons and Dragons players will recall that the kuo-toa made ( Optional Rule: Flanking, Dungeon Master's Guide, page 251—use it!) in case he or Therefore, kuo-toa will prefer melee over ranged combat. Nagpa Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
While it doesn't affect their tactics in any meaningful way, nagpas' charmed is relatively weak in combat—all it really does is prevent the target from in Area of Effect” table in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master's Guide, both a  Orc Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
As a dungeon master, you should therefore assume that first contact with a Orcs initiate combat by charging, using Aggressive (bonus action)  Humanoids Archives - The Monsters Know What They're Doing
The duergar mind master is the last of the CR 2 duergar, the one with the . The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters and