DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
You know, maybe I missed it, but @Rockyroad, are you more concerned about flanking with a VTT or minis or in Theatre of Mind???
D&D 5E Flanking
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
I use the shield limitation...
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
My apologies, I thought you mentioned earlier that you didn't use the full facing rules.
We use VTT. We didn't employ the shield rules for facing.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Oh. Yeah, I do. I streamline the Marking rules very slightly because it seems like an unnecessary extra step to declare that you’re Marking a target when it’s free to do. I just assume you Mark any creature you target with a melee attack to speed things up a bit.
TheOneGargoyle
Explorer
Yeah I like that, makes sense.
Do you also assume a facing if not specifically stated?
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
So, recapping from Darryl's work:
Flanking is too easy to get.
Then you need to create a house-rule to make it harder to get into position.
Having it grant advantage detracts from class features that otherwise grant advantage.
Then you need to have it grant something other than advantage.
Facing is too fiddly.
Since you use a VTT, depending on your tokens you can make them to indicate facing, such as the examples below:
Flanking is too easy to get.
Then you need to create a house-rule to make it harder to get into position.
Having it grant advantage detracts from class features that otherwise grant advantage.
Then you need to have it grant something other than advantage.
Facing is too fiddly.
Since you use a VTT, depending on your tokens you can make them to indicate facing, such as the examples below:
You can only Mark a creature you've made a melee attack against. Of course, if you attack multiple targets, I would assume you could mark any of them...
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Well, it’s kinda explicitly stated by the position of the mini (or token on a VTT). I don’t think I’d use facing in TotM. Too much to keep in your head.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Cant face diagonally by DMG rules. Which is why spaces half in one arc and half in another favor front, then side, then back. Which also further contributes to the specificity of positioning required to gain advantage for being in a target’s back arc.
Exactly, so specifying that you Mark a target is an unnecessary extra step. If you make a melee attack against a target, you Mark it. Nothing in the Marking rule says you can’t have multiple target’s Marked, so I assume if you make melee attacks against multiple targets in one round, you Mark all of them.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Yeah, it is a limitation of the grid system IMO.
Since you only allow advantage on attacks from the rear, it basically limits only one creature to gaining that advantage. But (correct me if I am wrong) you also require the target be marked?
Or does also marking the target simply allow you the free OA against it?
I don't mean to be thick, I am just trying to piece together exactly what you are doing compared to RAW.
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