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<blockquote data-quote="Penthau" data-source="post: 6170894" data-attributes="member: 6695"><p>I just had another thought. What system are you using? Does it have any definitions of the character's personalities? Does it have any built in reasons for the players to care what the BBEG even does? Some systems have skills and abilities focused on one thing, killing stuff and taking the loot. Maybe the players just don't care about what the bad guy is doing. He hasn't triggered any character traits that make them hate him. He is just another sack of xp and loot that is hard to find. They have lots of other xp sacks that are easy to find. They may figure that eventually, he will make himself known, maybe by attacking first, then they don't have to work to find him. Maybe something as vague as alignment just doesn't motivate them to go after the guy, maybe they have to really HATE him. Looks like it's time to kidnap Aunt May. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Penthau, post: 6170894, member: 6695"] I just had another thought. What system are you using? Does it have any definitions of the character's personalities? Does it have any built in reasons for the players to care what the BBEG even does? Some systems have skills and abilities focused on one thing, killing stuff and taking the loot. Maybe the players just don't care about what the bad guy is doing. He hasn't triggered any character traits that make them hate him. He is just another sack of xp and loot that is hard to find. They have lots of other xp sacks that are easy to find. They may figure that eventually, he will make himself known, maybe by attacking first, then they don't have to work to find him. Maybe something as vague as alignment just doesn't motivate them to go after the guy, maybe they have to really HATE him. Looks like it's time to kidnap Aunt May. :-) [/QUOTE]

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