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<blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 6457190" data-attributes="member: 6779">My players have really taken to capturing their intelligent foes to turn in for a reward if there is one. I like it, myself, but I can see how trying to RP every mook who's been captured could get old fast. I think the best compromise is to play out the first few, then summarize beyond that. Important baddies (bosses, etc.) should still be roleplayed, and will probably have more useful information anyway.There's an entertaining take on captured foes in the movie Sanjuro– the prisoner undergoes a certain amount of Stockholm syndrome and eventually roots for the samurai heroes to win, to the point of jumping up and down and cheering with them when they get good news until everybody remembers he's supposed to be locked up, so he coughs awkwardly and goes back to lock himself up in his cell. On the other hand, his being there works the other way around as well, reminding the samurai that their opponents are people too, and reminding them to be merciful.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Gneech, post: 6457190, member: 6779"] My players have really taken to capturing their intelligent foes to turn in for a reward if there is one. I like it, myself, but I can see how trying to RP every mook who's been captured could get old fast. I think the best compromise is to play out the first few, then summarize beyond that. Important baddies (bosses, etc.) should still be roleplayed, and will probably have more useful information anyway. There's an entertaining take on captured foes in the movie [i]Sanjuro[/i]– the prisoner undergoes a certain amount of Stockholm syndrome and eventually roots for the samurai heroes to win, to the point of jumping up and down and cheering with them when they get good news until everybody remembers he's supposed to be locked up, so he coughs awkwardly and goes back to lock himself up in his cell. On the other hand, his being there works the other way around as well, reminding the samurai that their opponents are people too, and reminding them to be merciful. -The Gneech :cool: [/QUOTE]

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