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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6859597" data-attributes="member: 6787650">If you're asking about the AD&D sprinting rules, it's the "Jogging and Running (Optional Rule)" section of the 2nd edition DMG. Can move up to quadruple speed by making a number of ability checks at high penalties. Failure on Str means you can't increase your speed to the next level; failure on Con means you have to stop and rest for a turn (ten minutes).You mean, "that's two optional sub-systems, either of which will suffice to let a PC run away." I listed a bunch of options, but you don't need to employ them all simultaneously.Rope Trick covers the whole party, not just one PC.As for Expeditious Retreat/Cunning Action, yes, it only covers one PC, but:(1) If one PC can run away effectively, then he can hold off the enemy for a round (Dodging) while everyone else gains some distance (Dashing toward the horses) and then he can catch up later. That's one reason why monks are great to have around. OR(2) Everyone else can run away (possibly suffering an opportunity attack per turn) while the mobile PC gets in a full sequence of attacks each turn until the pursuer eventually gives up in frustration.Again, you don't need to employ both of these--and you can obviously build an entire party full of mobile PCs, which works really well because now everybody in the party can employ these tactics.Great! There are a number of other run-away options that work just fine too (Web/Wall of Force, Find Steed, illusions) but we didn't even have to dig too deep before finding one that worked for you, despite you apparently not liking/using either 1st level wizard/warlock/bard spells, multiclassing, or feats. That illustrates the point that 5E has lots of ways to run away. You'd be hard-pressed to find a game where running away wasn't an option, unless it's one of those crazy DMs who gates all of his encounters behind one-way teleportation traps. (I suggest not playing with those DMs.)Edit: BTW, if you wait until you're actually engaged in melee with someone to start running away, you're pretty late. My players would run away from a death knight when they first saw one (even if the DM knows that it's really just a Flaming Skull). They wouldn't wait until it had already whittled everybody down to near-zero HP.Seeing is believing? My players run away from things all the time. Sometimes it's kind of a letdown from a DM perspective but it makes perfect sense in-character. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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