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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5223034" data-attributes="member: 42582">This is a fair point. In the combats that I ran, the wraiths had reasons to want to engage the party - in one case, being under an NPC's control, in the mad wraith's case reasons of vengeance (this was her third go against the party, after earlier being taken prisoner as a human mage and then being defeated after her first resurrection as a wight) - so I didn't have them disengage as much as they might have.Also, I find that choosing when to disengage is a tricky artform in itself. Too early, and it seems irrational on the part of the monster - it's team is often winning, after all, in the early stage of an encounter - and too late and it dies from the opportunity attacks in any event.So I suspect that I didn't play my wraiths to their utmost mechanical optimality, but I didn't completely gimp them - they used their phasing to advantage, for example - and I think I got about the best use out of them that I was going to, in terms of the balance between tactics, the flavour that comes from their powers and features, and the broader story flavour that they were part of.</blockquote>