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if you've been playing Dungeons and
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Dragons for long enough eventually
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someone is going to recommend The
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Monsters Know What They're Doing to You
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Uh it is a fantastic book that talks a
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lot about how monsters should be used
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effectively to play them in a way that
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feels internally consistent to your
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world and that feels tactically
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advantageous to a given creature's stats
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But did you know that there's more cuz
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Keith Almond is a very very busy man and
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he does a lot of writing First there's
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more the monsters know what they're
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doing which covers more monsters from
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outside of the 5e monster manual more
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tactics a lot of the same grade content
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and also supplementary information about
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how you can essentially arrive at the
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same conclusions using Keith's process
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It's very detailed It's fantastic
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Strongly recommend it And then he kept
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going Uh this is actually the smallest
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in the series This is how to defend your
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lair It talks about how monsters bad
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guys honestly anybody really would
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defend their lair in a Dungeons and
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Dragons style world How to build
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defenses that make sense as counter
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measures to the options available to
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players like in in a world where your
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enemies can teleport and walk through
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walls and cast fireball how do you build
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an effective base and the the advice in
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that book is absolutely fantastic
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Strongly recommend it and he has another
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book of player tactics which was
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actually his first book I don't have it
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and I do consider that a personal
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failing but go get it Uh and then on top
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of that Keith has another book coming
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this year That's right book number five
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This one is called Making Enemies and
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it's a book about monster design across
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TTRPGs It's coming at the beginning of
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October 2025 Um you can't find it up for
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pre-order yet or at least nowhere that
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I've looked But go on Blue Sky search
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for the monsters.com That's Keith's
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account Follow him keep an eye out look
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for the book I'm sure it's going to be
