For decades, the running joke at the Dungeons & Dragons table has been about the "lemming strategy"—monsters that rush blindly forward, stand still while surrounded, and attack the heavily armored tank simply because he is in the front. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing , Keith Ammann (of the blog of the same name) seeks to dismantle this lazy approach to Dungeon Mastering. The result is a seminal text that bridges the gap between statistical mechanics and narrative logic.
By using this guide, DMs can: