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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cougent" data-source="post: 3851639" data-attributes="member: 48665">My BBEG often try to run, but my voracious players often chase them down and slaughter them anyway.  When they do manage to get away my group gets mad at themselves for letting it happen, not me for doing it.  They are G or N aligned, but they expect their opponents to be cowards (or at least afraid of them, my group thinks highly of itself!) and to run away scared.In RTTTOEE, the blue dragon was taking a beating and decided to flee, but I almost waited to late.  He got out the door with 1hp and even then I had two PC's with bows readied who both took shots at him and missed.  That little blue dragon became their fixation for the next year.  Everywhere they went they heard stories about a young blue dragon and they would literally perk up as players as well as PC's.  I did not plan it, and had no idea it would work so well, but that one escape energized my group like nothing else.  Eventually they caught him and dispatched him, and that was both satisfying and a big let down because they had caught him.As LostSoul pointed out sometimes it is just plain fun to kill the BBEG, but I would propose that it is more fun to kill that same guy on the 3rd, 4th, or 10th encounter than the first, IMHO.  Every group is different though.</blockquote>