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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roadkill101" data-source="post: 3263476" data-attributes="member: 30952">Retreat???  I'm having a very hard time just trying to think back over 26 years worth ofgaming experience, where I witnessed players realize they were in such dire straights they actually did retreat (in any fashion, let alone orderly).  Nope, can't think of any one instance of any retreating what-so-ever.Now, I'm taking the meaning of retreat to be completely quitting the field, thereby ending the battle completely.  Or simply running away to live to fight another day.I've seen numerous situations where the players would quickly fall back just far enough to do a hasty regroup, maybe quaff a potion (usually healing of some sort) and resume the battle, giving up ground in the process (sometimes leaving fallen comrades).  I've yet to see any such scenarios like this that could be termed orderly.</blockquote>