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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6005451" data-attributes="member: 177">I've frequently felt similarly - I prefer to base my decisions on some general precepts, and the situation and people at hand, rather than a dogma, or fear of some boogeyman result.I agree.  Part of the reason you don't see this talked about is that it is a pretty fuzzy thing, difficult to get a verbal grip upon.  How do you, in plain text, discuss reading a group of people?I think a big part of Hobo's point is that absolutes... aren't.  Sometimes the best answer *is* "the monsters now have 1 hp".  Let us not arbitrarily take things off the table.On this particular item, there's a pacing issue to consider.  If the monsters run away, now I am probably adding a chase scene.  If they surrender, I'm probably adding prisoners as a complication to the adventure.  These are both creating new content, rather than getting the group further into the content you already have prepared.Which is better? That depends.  That's what Hobo's saying, at least to me - read the group, and choose, rather than follow a strict, "never to X, do Y instead".</blockquote>