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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Vangarel" data-source="post: 393199" data-attributes="member: 223">During last nights game the following happened:One of the players was descending a spiral staircase, as he got towards the bottom he surprised a goblin 2nd level warrior. For his surprise action he decided to Intimidate the goblin into surrendering and coming towards him. The player rolled and got a total score of 30 which needless to say passed. Now unknown to the player the goblin had 4 of his buddies out of sight behind him so rather than drop his weapon (a crossbow by the way) and approach the character he instead turned and ran for his life leaving his buddies behind.The problem seems to stem from the fact that the players as a whole think the goblin should have done exactly what he was told whereas I kind of think he was seriously scared and flees for his life at the fastest possible speed.Now the players say Intimidate is useless because the monsters won't do what they want if they succeed. I have tried to explain that the goblin had other options and chose one and in a situation where the goblin had no other options he would probably have done what he was told.Can anyone help?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Vangarel, post: 393199, member: 223"] During last nights game the following happened: One of the players was descending a spiral staircase, as he got towards the bottom he surprised a goblin 2nd level warrior. For his surprise action he decided to Intimidate the goblin into surrendering and coming towards him. The player rolled and got a total score of 30 which needless to say passed. Now unknown to the player the goblin had 4 of his buddies out of sight behind him so rather than drop his weapon (a crossbow by the way) and approach the character he instead turned and ran for his life leaving his buddies behind. The problem seems to stem from the fact that the players as a whole think the goblin should have done exactly what he was told whereas I kind of think he was seriously scared and flees for his life at the fastest possible speed. Now the players say Intimidate is useless because the monsters won't do what they want if they succeed. I have tried to explain that the goblin had other options and chose one and in a situation where the goblin had no other options he would probably have done what he was told. Can anyone help? [/QUOTE]

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