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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5276564" data-attributes="member: 18280">I have run games where an NPC orc was given magical healing before a PC.In the same campaign, a tribe of about 30 orcs began to emulate one of the PCs, who had both single-handedly cowed them in battle, and then spared them.Of course, I am a DM who remembers that most mimics are willing to shake down PCs for food (once they are in a position of power) rather than risk their lives in battle.  And I am a DM who will use fallen PCs as hostages so that villains may escape -- and then release them as the villians had promised.  Evil doesn't mean stupid, and my villians are often smart enough to know that negotiating now (and keeping their end) might allow them to negotiate later, when they are in a worse position.IME, players pick up on this quite quickly.Of course, poorly treated captives may rebound on the PCs, if it becomes possible for those captives to escape/get leverage over the PCs.  It certainly does on NPCs!  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />RC</blockquote>