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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7492273" data-attributes="member: 6787503">What I'm saying has &quot;very little risk&quot; is the gargoyle's decision to attack after it has succeeded in remaining unnoticed by its prey. It would be unlikely that a commoner would have any opportunity to retaliate in that situation. Regardless, you think it's a crappy ability as I use it. That's fine. Just keep in mind that when you look up False Appearance in the DMG with reference to its effect on a creature's CR, it's listed as having no effect on CR whatsoever. On the other hand, a situation in which the whole party is surprised is listed in the guidelines for building combat encounters as increasing the difficulty of the encounter by one step. So I'd assume that if False Appearance was meant to be a robust ability to cause surprise, it would be considered by the game designers to have some effect on a creature's CR, but it doesn't.3d6 isn't standard for 5e. I don't believe it's mentioned once in any of the 5e books. If other distributions don't matter for this discussion, then 3d6 doesn't matter either.&nbsp;Well, at least one of the designers plays it like I do: <a href="https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/03/24/blight-false-appearance/" target="_blank">https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/03/24/blight-false-appearance/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 7492273, member: 6787503"] What I'm saying has "very little risk" is the gargoyle's decision to attack after it has succeeded in remaining unnoticed by its prey. It would be unlikely that a commoner would have any opportunity to retaliate in that situation. Regardless, you think it's a crappy ability as I use it. That's fine. Just keep in mind that when you look up False Appearance in the DMG with reference to its effect on a creature's CR, it's listed as having no effect on CR whatsoever. On the other hand, a situation in which the whole party is surprised is listed in the guidelines for building combat encounters as increasing the difficulty of the encounter by one step. So I'd assume that if False Appearance was meant to be a robust ability to cause surprise, it would be considered by the game designers to have some effect on a creature's CR, but it doesn't. 3d6 isn't standard for 5e. I don't believe it's mentioned once in any of the 5e books. If other distributions don't matter for this discussion, then 3d6 doesn't matter either. Well, at least one of the designers plays it like I do: [url]https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/03/24/blight-false-appearance/[/url] [/QUOTE]

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