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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 7958942" data-attributes="member: 27385">You are taking away advantage on the monsters side and placing disadvantage on the players side.  This appears to be doing the same thing.  If 2 monsters are attacking the fighter, then he has disadvantage, slowing down the fight.  Once the PCs gain up on the remaining monsters, then the monster dies quicker since it now has disadvantage and the PCs now have normal attacks.  You cut down on the total number of attacks since now the fighter gets attacked with 2 dice instead of 4 while flanked which is countered by the reduction at the end of the fight when the PCs now get less dice.I would also caution against players needing to roll with disadvantage all the time.  My players do not mind being flanked since they like to flank, but make them roll with disadvantage and they feel like I am nerfing them.</blockquote>