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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5809072" data-attributes="member: 1465">I would have allowed the hidden PC to ready an action.[MENTION=89822]Jon_Dahl[/MENTION] didn't say how the combat started for everybody else (e.g. if one of the two groups did manage to surprise the other, if they met suddenly and combat erupted immediately), so I am assuming that the two groups met and perhaps had some verbal interaction first and the it became clear that combat was starting, hence no surprise round.I would have just treated the scenario like the hidden PC was granted a surprise round (thus, I would have let him roll his own initiative) but used his action to Ready an attack against the BBEG, which meant that his "initiative count" shifts down and then into the first regular round down until the BBEG's initiative result, thus potentially disrupting his spellcasting.</blockquote>