redrick
First Post
Monsters who are not finishing off unconscious PCs are not playing to win. End of story.
That being said, it is perfectly reasonable for a DM to run a campaign where monsters are not playing to win. I don't really know why you would go for a TPK in such a campaign, though.
My experience is that PCs are very resilient against a TPK until they've been through a few encounters to start to wear their resources down, especially if you are hands off on unconscious PCs. On the other hand, it's not there hard to finish off a single PC, and once the risk of character death is on the table, encounters become much more threatening.
That being said, it is perfectly reasonable for a DM to run a campaign where monsters are not playing to win. I don't really know why you would go for a TPK in such a campaign, though.
My experience is that PCs are very resilient against a TPK until they've been through a few encounters to start to wear their resources down, especially if you are hands off on unconscious PCs. On the other hand, it's not there hard to finish off a single PC, and once the risk of character death is on the table, encounters become much more threatening.