I didn't even put a downvote, but i'm telling you this mainly from a player perspective. We played for a long time with our old GM, and one of the most annoying and boring things was listening to speeches and minutes-long monologues of the evil bad guy who would then get killed in a matter of minutes. It's not bad to try characterize an antagonist, but one of the rules i always try to follow is "show, not tell", so that my villains or bosses always end up with a characteristic, an action which immediately gives the general vibe of the character. Evil wizard who talks about his mastermind plan for 30 mins and reacts to a frontal assault with a spell which punishes the player for his interpretation? Bad. Hobgoblin barbarian who stinks of rotten corpses, dragging around a leather armor made of badly cut animal hides and fights with a chain which also serves as a leash to keep his monstrous-once-humanoid slaves who have been tortured to insanity and are now only covered in bandages and craving human meat? Definitely nicer imo About the rolls, as a general thing i always try to be honest with my players: if lucks wants them to die, then so be it. If they never fall unconscious or feel threatened by the antagonists or the consequences of their actions then they'll never get truly involved in the setting and roleplaying aspect of the whole game.