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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moving Pictures" data-source="post: 9828514" data-attributes="member: 7052268">Diving in with a few thoughts.In another post, I kinda trashed 5e, but said it had some good ideas. Advantage/disadvantage was one of them.  I think I can grasp the idea. In the old school rules, a party of six could have spent hours setting up an ambush in advance of the ... I dunno .... Hobgoblin war band or whatever. The concealment is perfect. The cross-angles are perfect.  The party successfully gains surprise..... +4 to all rolls. Woo!And...The ranger rolls a 4+4=8, and their longbow arrow misses.The fighter rolls a 6+4=10, and their crossbow missesThe rogue rolls a 15+4, and their shortbow arrow hits for .... oh, two point of damage...The cleric lobs a slingstone ... 8+4, but you've got a range modifier of -2 so sorry, no, 10 doesn't hit.You get the idea.The idea of rolling twice in such situations and taking the best certainly helps drive home the reality of a surprise ambush.This is/was the other issue. In my game, we've solved that by using 2 d10, which helps bell-curve the rolls.See above.The major issue I see is that there's now too much use of advantage/disadvantage.My approach is to use advantage in situations where it is clearly warranted, but offer bonuses to the skill checks/saves/rolls to hit as the case may be.</blockquote>