Used: Morale checks...

So I'm playing my low-low lowbie... and although he's only level 5 and has pretty lame melee skills, it seems like more than half the goblins I swing my dagger at pee their pants and run away.

And that got me thinking.... Making them "run away" is in sense "beating the encounter". So, perhaps, if you make a creature fail their morale check and run away, when the creature actually "depsawns" could we get a portion of the XP for as if we killed them? We're not getting the treasure if they run off with their stuff... but I think... if you're going somewhere, and enemy X blocks your path... kill them, they're not blocking your path anymore, and you get XP. Make them run away... they're not blocking your path anymore... that should be a bit of XP too

Agree.

One time, after whacking at her for like five minutes and finally getting her down to Near Death, I had the Ant Queen go all fearful on me and run away. Which pretty much sucked.

Good idea.

A fantastical idea! I can't count the number of times some slippery goon ran away from me and I was unable to hit with a ranged weapon ...

Eric of Atrophy wrote:A fantastical idea! I can't count the number of times some slippery goon ran away from me and I was unable to hit with a ranged weapon ...

For me its that I can't bear to see XP get away, and then getting smacked by a bunch AoO's as I chase it. Or my PC stops swinging their altogether.

Added for the next planned reset.