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I've always liked using the "Mastermind" archetype for villains in my campaign. Someone pulling the strings on what seems to be...

May be, but if the game system as I understand it seems to make something impractical, I think its the GMs duty to make it clear that's...

Obviusly, I can't speak to your game world and the relations between various factions. In my games, just like real life, "alignment" is...

Getting an enemy to surrender or run away should IMO count as defeating them for purposes of xp.

Absolutely. Morale is a thing (or should be), and IMO enhances the verisimilitude of the experience.

Now that we’ve established the basics of simplifying a game, let’s work through how to make a game simple. Picture courtesy of...

It's there because of a disinterest in storytelling and setting reasonable narrative stakes, IMO. Becoming known as "murderhoboes"...

One can talk about IRL battles being morale-based, etc; that touches on the "combat as war" vs " combat as sport" mindsets. Modern DnD...

Again, I don't think that's a D&D problem, I think it's a DM problem. The fights are not properly structured. If it's a confined...

I don't understand number 2 except from the point of view that as Players we will eliminate fun out of the game if given half a chance...

This quote should be bronzed and placed upon the altar of role playing games. We are not our characters.

Enemies retreating: the players never want to let them do so, and if it's DnD the mechanics are working against the baddies trying to...

Yup. There's a whole other can of worms you open when taking prisoners, and its one that's easy for a GM to mishandle.

Some of its that, but even in games that don't really work that way its often more "These guys will just come back with friends/join up...

In my experience, it's more that allowing enemies to retreat invariably leads to them alerting the entire dungeon/castle/whatever and...