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The situation can also happen exactly in reverse. A vast majority of the encounters I use are NOT ambushes. If they are, the PCs will potentially be at a disadvantage (which is how ambushes are designed). I generally consider this to make the encounter more difficult and design the other...

I don't have the books in front of me at the moment, but I was just thinking ... It seems that combat advantage from flanking comes because the target knows it's flanked and has to defend two directions at once. If a rogue is hidden, wizard is invisible, etc ... Obviously he can GAIN combat...

Still, just because the orc knows what happened, and that the rogue is back in the fight, doesn't mean he can react quickly enough to prevent a sneak attack. How many times have you seen something coming and had just enough time to think "Son of a ..."? In fact, with flanking, the CA is partly...

That's funny. Roughly four or five years ago, my brother declared himself the Mayor of Tuesday and me the Governor of July.

I agree. This is definitely on the list of classic moves. This game should be about fun moreso than mechanics. And I promise you, give the Rogue CA in this situation and he'll have plenty of fun. Besides, what's a better definition of "Sneak Attack": "Stick you with something sharp when you...

If you just SLAUGHTERED a gargantuan dragon, do you really need to worry about terrain or cover?

Not implementing that house rule could end up with many of the PCs getting one full round of attacks before the (ambushing) monsters get one. Food for thought? Yes, and I thank you. It didn't go down as smoothly as I'd have liked, but all the same ... consider it digested. It seems to me that...

The way I'm handling it with my group is to treat the items as augmentations rather than actual holy symbols; sort of like gem sockets in Diablo II, WoW, Age of Conan, etc ... Let the cleric/paladin kill a priest of whichever diety he or she chooses, pop out the magical augmentation and switch...