DM Q&A attacks when bleeding

[nura]

recently I have noticed that when bleeding the spawns just keep attacking doesnt matter how long you wait if you are bleeding out the spawns just keep whacking away and sooner or later they kill you is that sort of the normal behaviour now?

[noric]

I also noticed something that I don't recall seeing the last time I was on here. We were heading into the upperdark (gibberlings) when we hit the lizard cavern. My char was in teh lead and got flanked by two lizard at once. I tried to withdraw but couldn't get away. Even after two more melee fighters came up and starting hitting them, they continued to ignore everyone else and kept striking my char until he was defunct.

The next day I want down there solo, just me and George. I had no trouble taking down both of the lizards at all. They tried the same tactic, flanking me. But this time I was able to fall back and let George jump in to distract their attention. While he walloped them I strafed with fire and finished them off easily.

So why did two PC fighters fail to distract the lizards, but my familiar got both of their attention? It was the same char (my sorc/fighter) in both cases. Just puzzled me. I could understand why they would stay focused on the weakest. Was that the reason? It just seemed odd that they couldn't be pried off with a crowbar the first time, but the second time they left me without a second glance for my little red buddy.

[kalbaern]

Mar 31, 2011 17:29:13 GMT -5 nura said:

recently I have noticed that when bleeding the spawns just keep attacking doesnt matter how long you wait if you are bleeding out the spawns just keep whacking away and sooner or later they kill you is that sort of the normal behaviour now?

It shouldn't be. I'll give the system a good look through tomorrow.

[DM Arsescratcher]

This is still happening, after the reset/update.

PCs aren't being given a chance to stabilize as monsters are putting the boot in when a character is down.