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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8507571" data-attributes="member: 11">I find it interesting that a couple of people have mentioned bows or spells with very long ranges. That may be the case in ideal conditions, but in my experience unless the combat is happening in a very large open field, it is fairly easy in a dungeon, forest, swamp, urban environment, etc - to get far enough away, around a a corner, through some thick brush, just over a rise, etc to be technically within range but out of line of sight without really be &quot;hiding,&quot; thus 90% of the time severely limiting very long range combat like that (or course there are other times when PCs or enemies have higher ground and a better vantage to get some use of out of those long ranges).As for the question at hand, it really is ad hoc for me, because it depends on things like how many enemies decide to turn and run, are they all doing it at once in response to a command or combat event, or are they doing it as their individual morale breaks becomes a cascade? I guess I should also note that I prefer to roll separate initiative for each monster or group of monsters. So assuming there is no immediate combat to resolve and one or more of the enemies are fleeing, I might just move to theater of the mind and keep it in rounds that just move a lot faster because most turns all people are doing is moving. Eventually, the foes either get far enough away or out of sight to hide or be unreachable in some other way or they are caught and combat resumes OR they surrender. Of course, other possibilities exist like, you don't catch them but you observe them from a distance crawl down a sewer grate or disappear into warehouse, etc. . . and then action shifts again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 8507571, member: 11"] I find it interesting that a couple of people have mentioned bows or spells with very long ranges. That may be the case in ideal conditions, but in my experience unless the combat is happening in a very large open field, it is fairly easy in a dungeon, forest, swamp, urban environment, etc - to get far enough away, around a a corner, through some thick brush, just over a rise, etc to be technically within range but out of line of sight without really be "hiding," thus 90% of the time severely limiting very long range combat like that (or course there are other times when PCs or enemies have higher ground and a better vantage to get some use of out of those long ranges). As for the question at hand, it really is ad hoc for me, because it depends on things like how many enemies decide to turn and run, are they all doing it at once in response to a command or combat event, or are they doing it as their individual morale breaks becomes a cascade? I guess I should also note that I prefer to roll separate initiative for each monster or group of monsters. So assuming there is no immediate combat to resolve and one or more of the enemies are fleeing, I might just move to theater of the mind and keep it in rounds that just move a lot faster because most turns all people are doing is moving. Eventually, the foes either get far enough away or out of sight to hide or be unreachable in some other way or they are caught and combat resumes OR they surrender. Of course, other possibilities exist like, you don't catch them but you observe them from a distance crawl down a sewer grate or disappear into warehouse, etc. . . and then action shifts again. [/QUOTE]

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