[quote=@Bartimaeus]
Well mercenaries probably arent going to try and challenge their target, their methods will probably be ambush or assassination. A mercenary will probably be someone who wint let their target escape, they want their reward.
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[s]But guards do[/s]

I'm joking.

The thing is, in the last one, we had a rule where you could sort of just - decline a fight - but we were also fighting for points/level up, and whatnot.