The Monsters Know What They Are Doing

Monsters are sort of stupid in Dungeons & Dragons.  It is nice if you are trying to kill them but they don't act rationally.  Groups of goblins, for example, will fight you until they all die.  Who does that?

This is the premise behind the blog http://themonstersknow.com/.  Keith Amman didn't like the fact that the monsters were stupid so he decided to do something about it.

The blog, and then the book.  Tactics for monsters.  Back in April or so I pre-ordered the book and today it arrived.

Super looking forward to a) reading it and b) kicking player ass.

Although to be fair it actually benefited the players the other day because they were almost dead and the last Kuo Toa ran away because he was wounded and his two hunting partners were dead.  Otherwise it could have been ugly for the party.