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Message: <blockquote data-quote="samursus" data-source="post: 4802347" data-attributes="member: 64280">I did this with a BECMI group years ago...they were around 9th level and were getting pretty out of control (my fault as DM).They never EVER thought of running away or surrendering.  So to start off the next campaign (Seven Rods type dealie) I had them come across Bugbears excavating a chest ...my thoughts were for them to grab the chest and run....opeing it later to find the scroll that starts the arc.  I put a LOT of Bugbears there to encourage them to hit and run...They didn't take the hint.  So they eventually killed them all... just to see a veritable ARMY of reinforcements come over the rise.  Still... they decided to try and take them out...  I knew they couldn't win....and would die..so instead I had them captured and stripped of all their gear.  They were put in cells and made to understand they were soon to be the main course.  I asked them what were they going to do.  Well, they came up with all kinds on unfeasable plans.... negelecting to search their cell for the secret escape tunnel I put in.  So they were eaten...I can now see that there were MANY better ways for me to have presented to them that they needed to sometimes run away, and that giving them only 1 option in the cells to live was a bit draconian.  But I was young and foolish, and they were a bit thick <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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