Recent content by marick

Tale: Your advice is contradictory: "If it's Kobolds, they definitely surrender." vs. "There's nothing "going on." It's a DM call. Base it off whatever factors you want. You can base it off your need to surprise your players. You can base it off the need to characterize the monsters. You...

So... can we generalize? Do all unintelligent monsters continue fighting, but since Kobolds have average human intelligence, they recongize the value of surrendering? Or is there something else going on here that I just don't understand yet? I mean, do I need to know MORE about a monster...

OK, so to put this in perspective, I'm the GM. Anybody done this with any fights in KOTS?

Ok, so let's say your party is in a big fight, like with an elite leader, a few other monsters, and a bunch of minions, and you manage to get a few big hits on the elite leader, and bloody it, and then your intimidate specialist rolls big, so the leader is now intimidated and surrenders. What...