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I know this is just a shitpost, but the key question is what kind of monster is doing the attacking. Mindless beast? It'll attack whatever's nearest. Vaguely competent humanoid? They'll probably focus on the guy in his pyjamas who's raining death from his fingertips over the one in armour thicker than their head.
A mindless beast, like a wolf that's known for stalking it's prey and going for a weak one to pull it away from it's group?
And would almost certainly do anything in its power (especially running away from the creature three times its height and aware of them enough to fight back and summoning lightning from their pointy stick) to avoid getting hurt, because there are no wolves afraid of being called chicken because those who keep fighting for stupid reasons die of sepsis?
Wolves aren't so mindless!
Wolves have an intelligence of 3, few beasts "more mindless" would be aggressive enough to face tank the party.
I guess all I'm really saying is that there really isn't that much in the game that should stand and deliver against the closest enemy until it dies
OK, when I said "beast" I should really have said "monster", because things like oozes, constructs, and undead are often stupid enough to do just that
It was clear what you meant, but you left an opportunity for someone to be technically correct and they jumped all over it
Yeah, fair enough; seems we're saying the same thing then. I really got the impression from the initial comment that only uniquely smart things would use tactics. I can see how that might have been meant more broadly
I give the wolf mentats, then cast Tasha's hideous laughter
Ranger should have pumped it with arrows before it got close.