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Teleporting out of the boss battle might be dishonorable, but I have a few BBEGs that believed *NOT DYING* was preferable to honor. XD
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
There were two instances where the PCs destroyed the BBEG's machinations so utterly, that the villain actually gave up their ideas after fleeing.
One was a witch bent on revenge against a whole town that wronged her. After all her minions were slain, her books burned, her home destroyed in an explosion, she gave up and became a recluse hermit. This went on for over a year, when by chance the PCs found her and actually wanted her help with fighting off a different villain. At first she told the PCs to blow off, but around the third ask she reluctantly agreed. She then found a new purpose in pharmaceutical alchemy for the common people.
Another villain was a vampire countess who decided that it would be a great idea to just turn everyone into vampires because then there's no point to having vampire hunters. Well several PC fights later, she lost everything; her castle burned, land razed, her subjects turned (most were undead) and she filed for a winter home in the mountains. Almost two years later she crosses paths with the PCs again as they were looking for undead to help with curative experiments that the witch was doing.
The experiments failed to yield any results, but the vampire and witch actually became good friends and bonded over how annoying the PCs were. :3
One was a witch bent on revenge against a whole town that wronged her. After all her minions were slain, her books burned, her home destroyed in an explosion, she gave up and became a recluse hermit. This went on for over a year, when by chance the PCs found her and actually wanted her help with fighting off a different villain. At first she told the PCs to blow off, but around the third ask she reluctantly agreed. She then found a new purpose in pharmaceutical alchemy for the common people.
Another villain was a vampire countess who decided that it would be a great idea to just turn everyone into vampires because then there's no point to having vampire hunters. Well several PC fights later, she lost everything; her castle burned, land razed, her subjects turned (most were undead) and she filed for a winter home in the mountains. Almost two years later she crosses paths with the PCs again as they were looking for undead to help with curative experiments that the witch was doing.
The experiments failed to yield any results, but the vampire and witch actually became good friends and bonded over how annoying the PCs were. :3
Not going to lie, stories like this are rather wholesome to me. It's not too often games get a chance for leitmotifs like that to crop up, and honestly, the fact the players didn't hold a grudge/blackmail with death option is quite refreshing to hear.
I love your villains too. Those are some realistic (if extreme) motivations/goals. But hey, why wouldn't they be extreme? They're villains, lol.
One system designed for superhero play is actually set up to encourage villain escapes and captured heroes: At any point during a fight before the combat system says you lose you can simply declare a loss. The reason you would want to declare a loss is because it allows you to describe that loss while pushing the fight to the bitter end allows the winner to decide how they won.
So a BBEG that's losing a fight will take the L, meaning the heroes have wrecked his plans and forced him to flee with a cry of "next time Gadget! Next time!"
So a BBEG that's losing a fight will take the L, meaning the heroes have wrecked his plans and forced him to flee with a cry of "next time Gadget! Next time!"
Always nice to have an arsenal for your spare headcanons.
So... It should be but... Is that common? That the heroes reach the boss and he decide to flee instead of fighting? Discord did not even try to fight seriously, he just noticed that he was at a disadvantage and decided to flee away.
Should I be... offended?
My real name IS "Dennis" (Guess what my mother was watching in the late 50s). Been using Wulfraed/Baron Wulfraed online for so long I'm more likely to respond to that than to my real name.
My real name IS "Dennis" (Guess what my mother was watching in the late 50s). Been using Wulfraed/Baron Wulfraed online for so long I'm more likely to respond to that than to my real name.
Well between Honor and "avoid being hit by a laser rainbow" the later is the most sensible choice even for Discord....
Also what's more chaotic than screwing with the big climax?
So once again, Friendship is Dragons is where I end up putting all my miscellaneous MLP fanfic ideas.