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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9314307" data-attributes="member: 29398">If the BBEG is choosing who to kill at the end based on criteria and motivations such as you suggested in post #145, why wouldn't the BBEG be fighting based on those criteria and motivations all the way through the battle?Intentionally trying not to TPK is IMO every bit as bad as intentionally trying to TPK: you're putting your heavy thumb on the scale.If the BBEG has it in for Wizards for whatever reason, then as soon as the BBEG recognizes the party's Wizard for what it is then that Wizard had better either get out of there or die.&nbsp; Or if, say, the BBEG is a big-time Gruumsh Cleric and you prance in with your Corellon Cleric PC, who do you think that BBEG is going to spiral on?&nbsp; The NPCs and BBEGs have motivations too, and not to act on them just because doing so might go badly for the PCs just isn't on, IMO.Now if the BBEG is a dumb brute or unthinking animal or construct, that's different; and who it attacks each round will be either random (if a construct) or maybe based on whoever it perceives as hurting/annoying it the most (if a dumb brute or animal); and even then, random or instinctive attacks can end up spiralling on (and killing!) one or two PCs just through bad luck and-or by their being the only things it can reach.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9314307, member: 29398"] If the BBEG is choosing who to kill at the end based on criteria and motivations such as you suggested in post #145, why wouldn't the BBEG be fighting based on those criteria and motivations all the way through the battle? Intentionally trying not to TPK is IMO every bit as bad as intentionally trying to TPK: you're putting your heavy thumb on the scale. If the BBEG has it in for Wizards for whatever reason, then as soon as the BBEG recognizes the party's Wizard for what it is then that Wizard had better either get out of there or die. Or if, say, the BBEG is a big-time Gruumsh Cleric and you prance in with your Corellon Cleric PC, who do you think that BBEG is going to spiral on? The NPCs and BBEGs have motivations too, and not to act on them just because doing so might go badly for the PCs just isn't on, IMO. Now if the BBEG is a dumb brute or unthinking animal or construct, that's different; and who it attacks each round will be either random (if a construct) or maybe based on whoever it perceives as hurting/annoying it the most (if a dumb brute or animal); and even then, random or instinctive attacks can end up spiralling on (and killing!) one or two PCs just through bad luck and-or by their being the only things it can reach. [/QUOTE]

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