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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5883124" data-attributes="member: 22779">Now, that's true enough.  Although, I tend to see that more as a player issue, rather than a rules issue.  But, yes, that's certainly something that can come up.I also don't want morale rules to apply to the PC's.  That's a no no.  PC's allies?  Oh sure.  Sorry, Mr Druid, but your pet wolf just won't fight to the death for you.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I guess I see the advantages outweighing the disadvantages.  Having a neutral arbiter (the dice) decide the issue means that I step back out of the light a bit as the DM.  You beat on the baddies, they fail morale, they run away is more satisfying to me than: You beat on the baddies, I think you've done enough damage, they run away.  It puts the DM squarely in the spotlight if morale is entirely up to the DM.  Whether or not a monster runs away ultimately rests in the DM's lap and I'm not very comfortable with pressing the eject button on an encounter.</blockquote>