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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goumindong" data-source="post: 4386622" data-attributes="member: 70874">What fact? There has never been any bait and switch. NPCs are not PCs they play by different rules. And? At that point the Legion Devil is essentially a non-combat NPC to be interrogated by the PCs and not an encounter. The same as if you run into a goblin at a bar and he buys you a drink(well, not quite the same, but close enough). If the Legion Devil is caught by NPCs then you are back to the NPC on NPC violence solution and the outcome is whatever you want.If players chase a minion out of one battle and into a building where it hid it would only be a new encounter if they stopped and rested for 5 minutes. Searching for the minion is not resting and so would be the same encounter. If they rest the minion gets away.Either way, routing your enemy is still defeating them and the hit points of the minion are, at that point, irrelevant. Your housecat example was thoroughly shot down as has this one. Every terrain feature that does damage requires an attack roll unless its a zone or conjuration created by the players.</blockquote>