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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WHW4" data-source="post: 5572439" data-attributes="member: 63382">When running, I sincerely try to get into the monsters head. What are they after? How much is worth to them?For an animal protecting its young or a mated pair of dragons, it may be a fight to the death scenario. For a band of goblins looking for an easy snatch and grab, if a few of them died horribly and quickly they'd probably cut their losses and retreat. It's all about risk/reward.Animals generally also don't fight to the death barring specific scenarios (crazed, diseased in some way, protecting young as mentioned above); evolutionarily speaking, why would they? It makes no sense biologically. You can't pass your genes on if you're dead.For intelligent/quasi-intelligent monsters an example: You attack what to your band-leader looked like a caravan composed of four armed individuals and a couple merchants. You number 20. Yes, we should attack. Twelve seconds later, Glubnub the Wise is decapitated by the big man with an axe, and four of your friends on the right flank were engulfed in a fireball and lay burning in the grass. Marines, we are LEAVING!Evil leaders may throw their mooks at an enemy without care for losses, but barring some sort of mind control or a "greater fear of coming back empty handed," they also would break and run without extreme discipline. Hobgoblins make tenacious foes in that regard. Only a deep-seated sense of honor or duty to the cause or an intense, irrational hatred of the foe would keep someone fighting a losing battle - but this is usually reserved for the HEROES of the story (your group).</blockquote>

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