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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5213455" data-attributes="member: 22779">Hrm, perhaps encourage wasn't the best word to use in hindsight.  I don't mean encourage as in actively tell the players, "You should do this, it would be a good idea", but rather using the carrot approach.For example, if every single prisoner experience turns into a huge time sink and frustration, ending in massive blowouts over alignment, then, well, that's going to discourage any further taking of prisoners.  OTOH, if taking prisoners is typically rewarded - enemies know that the now rather famous PC's will take prisoners and treat them well, so they surrender faster; enemies will generally lead the PC's somewhere interesting; the DM doesn't have released prisoners come back and steal the PC's stuff while they're sleeping - then the players will be more likely to take prisoners.</blockquote>