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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1973175" data-attributes="member: 2">Quite a few of my encounters with foes don't devolve (or escalate) into combat. Most recently, I handled this in a fairly fun way. First, I emailed all my players but one particular one and said "a bad guy is going to show up tonight, but it's just in a dream that this other player is having -- it isn't really happening. I want you guys to be normally angry with the villain at first, but gradually start to agree with him and argue on his behalf with each other. As the dream goes on, you'll get more and more certain that the bad guy has the right idea."Then when the chosen PC was doing something where he might drop off to sleep for a few minutes (taking a bath, in this case) I had the bad guy show up with no warning at all. It went beautifully; the PC screamed, everyone else rushed in, and they faced off united against the bad guy. Ten minutes later, everyone was arguing that the bad guy made sense, and the female paladin was flirting with him. That's when I told the PC that he wakes up, still in the bath, with no one around.Of course, the conversation was legit - the bad guy has a way to get into dreams - but it was a fun way to play with the player's mind and let the other PCs play devil's advocate.</blockquote>