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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1815068" data-attributes="member: 5122">When I was running The Sunless Citadel, in my first experience as a 3E DM, there was one goblin who survived about four encounters with the PCs.  Each time his group of goblins would lose to the advancing heroes, he would run and survive and hook up with another warband of goblins.  Even more impressive, in at least two or three of those encounters, he faced off with the party paladin, effectively defeating him (due to the paladin's truly lousy attack rolls).In their final encounter with this goblin, he was the last survivor and was, yes, fighting the paladin.  The PCs could easily have assisted the paladin in finally taking down the goblin, but at that point they felt that to do so would be too damanging to the paladin's self-esteem.Well, once again the goblin defeated the paladin (who, at this point, was 2nd-level).  Out of sheer amusement, the rest of the group allowed the little fellow to run away.I'd intended to bring that goblin back into the game as a recurring minor villain, played for some comic relief.  Alas, the party met a TPK in The Forge of Fury before I could do so.</blockquote>