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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6194649" data-attributes="member: 221">I don't understand the question. If I have an enemy attacking the PCs and they willfully decide not to defend themselves, then yes. The characters would likely die. If I have an enemy scheming against the PCs and they choose to ignore the threat, then yes, the PCs will suffer the full effect of the machinations, which may or may not lead to people attacking them or other unpleasantness.If I have an enemy who does nothing in any way to the PCs then he's not really much of an enemy.Are there other options?But I'm not talking about those systems. The point being made was that Dungeons and Dragons had no official stance on how antagonists were placed and I countered that it did: the books and the game specifically expect the DM to do it.  You can define it however you want, the DM put them there or they are not there. Good DMs will play off of the PCs, to a point, but ultimately, the story that gets told is the one the DM allows to be told.  Never had that happen, so I can't say. Most of the time, when PCs perceive a threat they react and overreact.</blockquote>