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<blockquote data-quote="swrushing" data-source="post: 2746264" data-attributes="member: 14140">well, no. the question itself is baffling.NPCs &amp; monsters are not PCs. The PC critting them is a woohoo highlight for the PC. It will go down in &quot;things that i did that were cool!&quot; for the PC. taking that away from the PC won't increase the enjoyment of the game.NPCs and monsters, they don't have a player, a person, sitting at the tabel whose enjoyment is of interest to me. they aren't &quot;my characters&quot; and i don't &quot;have fun&quot; when they do well. I don't &quot;enjoy the game&quot; based on how well they do or how good their plans are, but on whether or not my players are having fun.Now i can see, but haven't had to do this in practice IIRC, if the scene was say &quot;an initial encounter&quot; where a big bad blows thru to setup a plotline (like you see often in story, myth, movie, or comic) maybe fudging a roll or event so that the villain make his getaway. If i am running supers and the PC drops a building on the super-villain, I don't actually roll dice to determine &quot;when they clear the rubble is the supervillain's body gone with the artifact he stole&quot; because that was the purpose and in genre reason for the scene. is that the kind of thing you are referring to?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="swrushing, post: 2746264, member: 14140"] well, no. the question itself is baffling. NPCs & monsters are not PCs. The PC critting them is a woohoo highlight for the PC. It will go down in "things that i did that were cool!" for the PC. taking that away from the PC won't increase the enjoyment of the game. NPCs and monsters, they don't have a player, a person, sitting at the tabel whose enjoyment is of interest to me. they aren't "my characters" and i don't "have fun" when they do well. I don't "enjoy the game" based on how well they do or how good their plans are, but on whether or not my players are having fun. Now i can see, but haven't had to do this in practice IIRC, if the scene was say "an initial encounter" where a big bad blows thru to setup a plotline (like you see often in story, myth, movie, or comic) maybe fudging a roll or event so that the villain make his getaway. If i am running supers and the PC drops a building on the super-villain, I don't actually roll dice to determine "when they clear the rubble is the supervillain's body gone with the artifact he stole" because that was the purpose and in genre reason for the scene. is that the kind of thing you are referring to? [/QUOTE]

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