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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5024029" data-attributes="member: 3424">Because monsters running away often interferes with the PCs' ability to kill them and take their stuff. In a game where gaining XP and treasure depends directly on the PCs' ability to kill things and take their stuff, monsters that run away tend to reduce the rate at which the PCs gain XP and treasure. This may annoy the players.There are a number of solutions to this:1. The DM has to explain to the players that hunting down every last one of the monsters they encounter is part of the challenge of killing things and taking their stuff. If they allow the monsters to get away, they only have themselves to blame for losing out on the XP gained from killing the monsters and the treasure that they carried.2. Make the gaining of XP and treasure independent of whether the PCs killed all the monsters. However, some DMs do not like this approach because they believe that killing things is to only way to get better at anything, and that the only way to get treasure is to loot it from an enemy's corpse.3. Remove morale so that all enemies fight to the death. This approach has the advantage of being both simple and direct. Without the need to track and check monster morale, the DM only has to think about which attack to use next.Yes, I am only partly joking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 5024029, member: 3424"] Because monsters running away often interferes with the PCs' ability to kill them and take their stuff. In a game where gaining XP and treasure depends directly on the PCs' ability to kill things and take their stuff, monsters that run away tend to reduce the rate at which the PCs gain XP and treasure. This may annoy the players. There are a number of solutions to this: 1. The DM has to explain to the players that hunting down every last one of the monsters they encounter is part of the challenge of killing things and taking their stuff. If they allow the monsters to get away, they only have themselves to blame for losing out on the XP gained from killing the monsters and the treasure that they carried. 2. Make the gaining of XP and treasure independent of whether the PCs killed all the monsters. However, some DMs do not like this approach because they believe that killing things is to only way to get better at anything, and that the only way to get treasure is to loot it from an enemy's corpse. 3. Remove morale so that all enemies fight to the death. This approach has the advantage of being both simple and direct. Without the need to track and check monster morale, the DM only has to think about which attack to use next. Yes, I am only [I]partly[/I] joking. [/QUOTE]

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