GM's Tip of the Week

Play your NPCs and creatures true to themselves.

Use suggested strategies where they make sense, and think about the ways your characters might maximize their threat-potential. Where applicable, look at the habits and hunting practices of RL animals (wolves, cats, and so on). Look at historical battles for clues and inspiration for humanoid PCs.

Your NPCs and monsters are just as much your characters as the party’s PCs are theirs, play them accordingly! Don’t let them be the PCs doormat; that’s no fun.

Just be mindful; running this way leads to much more challenging encounters than the book suggests, and may lead to TPKs to encounters that weren’t written to be that challenging.