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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2914986" data-attributes="member: 18280">That's a difference, then.  I don't assume that all NPC opponents work for the BBEG.  My PCs run into bandits in the forest, orcs out on patrol, goblins trying to kill the orcs lairing nearby that make the mistake of thinking the PCs might be allies if they go over to their camp and talk to them en masse, etc.  Not everyone who meets the PCs immediately susses them up and  pegs them as Level X.  Lots of NPCs underestimate their opponents for the first round or two....and sometimes that's all there is.In the aforementioned goblin encounter, one of the PCs rode a stag animal cohort and tricked out riding feats and the Ride skill to be very effective doing so.  At first, when things went sour, the goblins focused on the PC.  After a couple of rounds, though, they were working pretty hard (and without success) to bring down that stag.  A few rounds later, they were working pretty hard (and mostly without success) at Running Away.It wasn't that my PCs refuse to talk to things, either.  They've become quite chummy with orcs, and not so long ago used their cure spells on an orc NPC rather than their wounded PCs because they quite liked the fellow (my orcs are LE or sometimes LN, in general...a once-honorable that is slowly being turned toward NE and CE by addiction to a drug, zurgash, made from a fungus grown on the bones of their ancestors).RC</blockquote>