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Message: <blockquote data-quote="On Puget Sound" data-source="post: 5323090" data-attributes="member: 68988">The main question is, do you as the DM want them to get away easily?If you do, then just let them go.  The bad guys hurl taunts and insults, or if they are unintelligent creatures they squabble over the carcass of a fallen creature (monster or PC).  Typically you would choose this if you realized the encounter was a bad one and wanted to bail out before the TPK. If you don't, then there are several options:Skill challenge: diplomacy to bribe your way free, nature to know the monster's favorite food and toss it some as a distraction, athletics/ acrobatics/ endurance to outrun or outmaneuver it, stealth to hide till it loses interest, streetwise to remember a shortcut through the sewers, arcana to improvise a distracting spell....Running battle: Just stay in initiative order and continue turn by turn.  If the characters want to run away they will have to spend move actions to increase the distance, then use ranged attacks and effects that slow the opposition until they can get far enough away so that the encounter is effectively over.  Skills as mentioned in the skill challenge above might be used in a blended "fighting challenge", where each success adds squares of distance and each failure lets the monsters get closer.Typically you'd choose not to make it easy because the alternative is more fun, or because the players made a bad choice (which is not the same as an unlucky guess or a few bad rolls) and you want that choice to have consequences.</blockquote>

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