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

Absolutely love this book. If you are an old DM, or a novice one, looking to turn the corner on how to run fantastic encounters that turn simple goblins into a force to be feared... then this book is for you.

This book is phenomenal. I ordered it recently for a friend and decided to look at it a bit before I gave it to him, and I loved it so much that I ordered one for myself. The amount of content here is amazing. I don't know what's in the description here on Amazon, but this book contains a breakdown of every monster in D&D 5e, containing battle tactics, breakdown of moves in combat, ideal ability combos, and additional information sourced from logical conclusions upon reviewing the stat blocks and source text. It's crazy. 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10, 100 out of 100. Would recommend to anyone interested in D&D.

Have you ever looked at a creature's stat block and been like: "Ok, but how am I meant to run a Banshee?" The flavor text gives you some hints as to what they are... but not who they are, or why they are. Well, this book is here for all of you who are, like me, trying to give a touch of personality to monsters in TTRPGs.From cowardly creatures that gang up on adventurers, to mighty dragons who seek treasure for the sake of having more treasure, Keith Ammann hits the nail right on the head with this gorgeous, huge book.I was expecting a flimsy bunch of pages barely held together, or lots of art to pad out the content... oh boy, was I not ready for this 300+ pages long book with barely any padding to it. I recommend giving it a quick once-over and then reading up on the kinds of monsters you will be running in your next session to have a better idea on how to make your games truly memorable.Amazing book!

This book really helps you to get into the mindest of different monsters, and see them with completely different eyes. While it often gets into detailed mechanics that are specific to D&D 5th edition, the basic ideas are general enough that you can easily use it for other fantasy systems as well (older versions of D&D in my case). So I'd recommend it even if you don't play 5e. It's very durable and the cover is great. And it's a hardback that's actually affordable.

This excellent book is a must-have for all dungeon masters. Especially if you are just getting started out!It goes into great detail about HOW monsters should actually fight in DND 5e, and more importantly WHY they fight like this. It'll really bring your combats to life!I had been throwing many hard or even deadly encounters at my group, but they just kept wiping out all the enemies because I wasn't using any sort of strategy for the enemies. But now, I just threw my first proper deadly encounter at them, and it was a great battle!I use this book to create little decision trees using the website app.diagrams.net and this allows me to have a quick reference as to how a monster should act in combat.It would also make a great gift for any DM friends you have!