A DM's Woes: What Just Happened? (2 BBEG Dead in 1 Round)

[Gavinfoxx]

Here's the thing though. WHY would you ever think that player characters might not attack? Or that they might not do something stupid?

These are D&D player characters. They are, by definition, completely insane. These are the strongest, most capable, most intelligent, most wealthy, often the most beautiful people in a setting, and what do they do? They go into holes and KILL THINGS. Rather than living a life of luxury that they could obviously manage!

If there is a character, always, always, always have an idea of how they will react to violence from the PCs, and if you expect them to live, give them SEVERAL escape plans, and several things they can have others do to slow the PCs down while they escape.

What you did is this high level character played fair. NEVER play fair. You dont get to be level 10 by playing fair.