Rampant Games - On Unrealistic AI

In a new blog entry titled Dramatic Unrealism Rampant Coyote explains what's behind "unrealistic" AI in RPGs.

Monsters in "dungeons" in RPGs don't display "realistic" AI for the same reasons that enemy combatants in kung fu movies take turns getting clobbered by the hero / heroine. An organized defense (or offense) would... well, it wouldn't be any fun.

But then, an organized attack against an actual entrenched forces dwelling underground in a "realistic" world would simply be plugging up the ventilation points and smoking them out (or to death).