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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3966457" data-attributes="member: 710">Adding a mechanic is never impossible, and if it emphasizes a point of a setting, I'd ignore any design tenets that stand in the way. The rules are there to allow playing the game you want.It is possible that "horror" works better if the PCs aren't just forced to run away by some random check, but simply because the monsters seem to tough to handle without better preparation (or at all). If combats take a few more rounds then before, and if players now have an easier time determining their progress in combat ("1 round and the first opponent is already bloodied? Looks easy!" vs. "9 rounds of combat, half the party is bloodied, but none of the monsters? RUN!"), they might finally get the chance to run away.</blockquote>