Friday, March 13, 2026

Reaction Tables for Creatures with Low Intelligence

If you've seen my article in the Petty Gods Expanded Edition, have a copy of Fang, Faith, and Legerdemain, you know that I don't feel like a single reaction table is broad enough to cover every D&D encounter. While the Hippocratic Humorism approach of those tables works okay for intelligent creatures, I realized it wasn't really good for non-intelligent creatures or those with only animal intelligence. Those are creatures that react based mainly on instinct. 

As part of a yet-to-be-announced d30 project I've had in the works quietly for the last couple of years (and hope to be able to tease more substantially this summer), I've worked out the following Reaction tables based on instinctual behaviors. 

More to come!