How to Be a Good Boss in a Game

Don't hang on too tightly to the idea that boss monsters need to always survive from catastrophic things like a really high persuasion check or high performance checker, deception. There are lots of ways to have big battles and you don't necessarily have to have a big boss. Sometimes there will be a big boss and sometimes you're gonna expect a fight. But sometimes it's more fun for like the pacing of the game and the interest in things for the boss to get killed in weird ways that you weren't expecting. They had eaten by something else. It could be really cool.