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In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master
has to make one decision after another in response to player
behaviour-and the better the players, the more unpredictable their
behaviour! 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.
Defend yourself and protect your assets in a lair that feels as
real and alive as your monsters with advice from Keith Ammann,
author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for
Dungeon Masters. The world is a dangerous place-especially when
you're up to no good. Whether you're a rampaging monster, a
calculating mastermind, or the current possessor of the Golden
MacGuffin, someone's going to come at you. Probably more than one
someone. You can't know when, but you can choose where. You need to
be ready. You need a lair. In How to Defend Your Lair, gamemaster
Keith Ammann pulls back the curtain on an underrated but crucial
part of any tabletop roleplaying game: the theater of battle. Say
goodbye to encounters in randomly generated dungeons and hello to a
game in which where the fight takes place is just as important as
who is doing the fighting. This book teaches you how to use
real-world principles of building security and area defense to
create strongholds infused with flavor, informed by narrative, and
complex enough to force your players to think strategically. You'll
look at the strengths and weaknesses of both defenders and
potential attackers, creating spaces that are strong enough to keep
out ordinary intruders...and to provide thrilling challenges to
extraordinary ones. Including more than a dozen fleshed-out sample
strongholds, How to Defend Your Lair is a crucial resource for any
RPG gamemaster who wants to push players to think about how to
solve problems before running at them head-on.
From the author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing comes a
follow-up strategy guide with MOAR! monster tactics for Dungeon
Masters playing fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Keith
Ammann's first book based on his popular blog, The Monsters Know
What They're Doing, unpacks strategies, tactics, and motivations
for creatures found in the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual.
Now, in MOAR! Monsters Know What They're Doing, he analyzes the
likely combat behaviors of more than 100 new enemies found in
Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. Your
campaign will never be the same!
From the author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing comes an
introduction to combat tactics for Dungeons & Dragons players.
In his first book, The Monsters Know What They're Doing (based on
his popular blog), Keith Ammann unleashed upon the D&D world a
wave of clever, highly evolved monster tactics. Now it's only fair
that he gives players the tools they need to fight back...and
prevail! An introduction to combat tactics for fifth-edition
Dungeons & Dragons players, Live to Tell the Tale evens the
score. It examines the fundamentals of D&D battles: combat
roles, party composition, attacking combos, advantage and
disadvantage, Stealth and Perception, and more...including the
ever-important consideration of how to run away! Don't worry about
creating a mathematically perfect character from square one.
Survival isn't about stats-it's about behavior! With four
turn-by-turn, roll-by-roll, blow-by-blow sample battles, Live to
Tell the Tale breaks down how to make the best choices for your
cherished characters so that they can survive their adventures,
retire upon their accumulated riches, and tell stories about the
old days that nobody will ever believe.
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