MechaPilot
Explorer
"What happened to morale?"
Mine has been gone for many years now. I assumed that was how the world works.
Mine has been gone for many years now. I assumed that was how the world works.
Use one of the grittier variant healing systems in the DMG?I guess I yearn for the days when combat was scary, and chasing away monsters was as good or better than fighting them.
Use one of the grittier variant healing systems in the DMG?
The biggest problem with monsters giving up is that they can only escape if the archers and spell casters want them to escape. Very few monsters can get away before their few remaining hit points have been taken from ranged attacks. If they can't flee the PCs have a problem, what do you do with a bunch of captured monsters?
In my 5e and S&W games I use the B/X morale rules, monsters have a score of 2-12 and at certain points in an encounter I roll and if its over their score on 2d6 they disengage, flee, avoid, etc. For most I roll on initial encounter, first death on their side, leader is killed, half are dead, etc. I like letting the dice determine that. Though sometimes circumstances dictate that there will be no morale check.