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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5313722" data-attributes="member: 29398">Again, resource management.Wading through dozens of mooks before getting to the BBEG might not be as entertaining as the BBEG battle, but at the design level the mooks still have a job to do: tenderize the PCs so they're nice and chewy when they get to the BBEG. <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=":)" />Also, there's the realism aspect to consider.  Sure, some BBEGs are loners or only have a very few companions - most dragons, for instance, are like this - but if you're a BBEG planning to take over the world (in any genre) you're first going to surround yourself with an army of mooks as a defense.There's also wandering monsters.  I'm not a huge fan of wandering monsters in what is otherwise a contained dungeon setting unless they make sense (e.g. guard patrols, or things that already live there just going about their business), but in the wilderness they're a fact of life...or death...and when the hungry bears wander into your camp looking for food you just gotta deal with it.Lan-"don't feed the bears"-efan</blockquote>