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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3118374" data-attributes="member: 8158">Well, Strahd's not a character from Downer or Order of the Stick. He doesn't grasp the concepts of XP and leveling. From a non-metagame point of view, it makes sense to try to fight a battle of attrition, studying the enemy and wearing them down before engaging them. The fact that it doesn't play out that way should come as a surprise to the villian, as it generally does in fiction.As you say, he is the one who drew the adventurers to Ravenloft in the first place. He has his motivations for keeping them around that go beyond viewing them as a threat and annihlating them. Of course, bored, insane immortals are often content to toy with new adversarie (q.v. Count Magnus Li from Vampire Hunter D).True, the heroes don't have to go after Strahd. They never have to go after the bad guy. They don't have to come to Ravenloft in the first place. Adventurers are assumed to be proactive. But there are certainly plenty of games Strahd can play with complacent PC's. If the heroes camp out Ireena, he can try to create diversions, attack the townspeoples elsewhee, take hostages.</blockquote>