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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verdande" data-source="post: 5241895" data-attributes="member: 69093">I don't see that there's any need for you to stall combat to prevent the paladin from dying. All you're doing is rewarding the players for making poor tactical decisions by going easy on them. If anything, as was mentioned by several more eloquent posters, you need to go the exact opposite direction.You need to hammer the paladin, and show absolutely no mercy whatsoever. If they want to leave the paladin alone to suffer his fate while they try and get the easy victory by subtlety, then they need to make it work. It's not your job to make the players' tactics work, it's theirs. Look at it this way: If you're trying to teach somebody how to use a hammer, you don't adjust the wood or give them nails with larger heads to compensate for their horrible grip and insane angle of attack, you let them puzzle it out. Otherwise, they're going to try and keep using the claw to hit the nail, and nobody wants that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>