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Against Focus Fire in D&D

Hey, I know this Blog is about my one-day-to-be-finished game, Post Human, but today, I have thoughts about D&D: Maybe the first time I DMed a game of D&D, I was playing with my friend Todd. We were 11. He was a first level fighter and ventured in a room full of kobolds, got some bad rolls, and kept getting stuck for 1 or 2 points of damage until his fighter died. I asked Todd why he hadn't run away, and he told me that he didn't know that he could.  At some point, monsters in modern D&D became like my friend Todd: They forgot that they could run away, and, as a consequence, in every modern edition of D&D (see note 1 below), monsters fight to the death (unless the DM decides otherwise, of course), and thus focus fire--directing all available attacks against a single opponent until that opponent drops--is the optimal combat strategy (see note 2 below).  It's a matter of the action economy mixed with the consequences of opponents that have bags of hit points:
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A Review of the Rules of Godkillers and What I Learned

Godkillers is the first and only RPG that I have designed and published. I did this with Journeyman as my full creative partner -- he painted, collaborated on ideas, and did most of the organizing. We were ably assisted by Jamie Chestnut, who did the layout, and  Jacky Leung (deathbymage on Twitter), who edited the manuscript. Below is the ad copy for Godkillers that you can see on drivethrurpg: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/266374/Godkillers To kill the cult, you've got to kill their god. His greed corrupted your god's offspring. His blasphemous acts shattered your faith. His lies cleaved you from your family, and now Reverend Hubert wants your flesh as the ultimate sacrifice to a hungry god. "Godkillers" is a short scenario that includes the following: Simplified OpenD6 rules -- everything you need to run the scenario Five pre-gen characters, complete with stats, backstory, powers, and full-color portraits Background for the world of the Post-Human Condition,
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And I Feel Good...

 It's pretty cool how I woke up at about the same time Possums (https://dungeonsandpossums.com/2021/12/my-end-of-the-year-post/) woke up, like the stars were alright, and we're, well, not Elder Gods, but maybe their butlers. Now I await the return of Journeyman, and a shout out to LizIsANoob, who is not actually a noob and who knows stuff. Like a lot of you, the reality of living in a pandemic hit me really hard: Anxiety, depression, the inability to create a damned thing, retweeting way too much political stuff.  I've got some RPG projects in mind for this year and the next: 1. Run an L5R campaign based in the City of Lies boxed set. 2. Write the core book for the Post Human setting.  3. Expand and revise Godkillers: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/266374/Godkillers 4. Write Ward Zero, the next book in the Post Human setting. Ward Zero is an extra-dimensional neighborhood, the home of the Junk God, and the Junk God calls to "junk," to people and things that
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