Lord Vangarel
First Post
If it's a major npc then its treated as a normal fight, if there's lots of monsters vs npcs slightly off screen then I'll handwave a lot of it. If the fight is totally off screen I pretty much always handwave it.
This.I use rules to resolve things for PLAYERS.
If the NPC is actually an ally and in the party so to speak, yes, I'll keep track, but if it's not an ally and the pc's don't influence it directly too much I just decide who wins based on factors like what is good for the story and what makes sense...