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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9576912" data-attributes="member: 11">I play them how I think they would act in the world and situation while attempting to fulfill their goals (either short or long term), as is relevant (or they are capable of). To me that means, I play them to win, where "winning" means achieving that goal.  Sometimes that goal is killing all the PCs. Sometimes that goal is working to kill all the PC, up to a certain point after which it is too much of a risk. Sometimes that goal is simply defeating the PCs without killing them.So for example, because the NPCs want to "win" in a recent encounter, they took the PCs prisoners rather than just kill them when they were defeated, because "winning" for these NPCs was getting the info the PCs have, and it is not  as convenient to get it from corpses (though not impossible). They may still kill them, but in the meantime the PCs have a chance to escape and are formulating plan towards that end, that still may not work. <img src="https://media1.giphy.com/media/S5E6VIkBAGujjfT0zz/200.gif" alt="Fresh Prince Reaction GIF by MOODMAN" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>