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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7559731" data-attributes="member: 29398">That's not what the thread is asking though.  Accidental attacks are what it's after, where the PCs never realize their target is a potential ally and-or just plain doesn't deserve to be attacked.An example I DMed about 20-odd years ago: PC party is in the mountains and down some toughness so I decided to lob in an NPC Ranger for a while.  Party had been travelling by night and sleeping by day, posting invisible sentries while at camp.  So Ranger - a good upstanding sort - approaches and sees from a distance only three in-his-eyes-unguarded tents.  Thinking this a bit suspicious he goes into stealth mode, and the party sentries completely fail to notice him as he sneaks up to a tent and looks inside.  In the tent is a sleeping PC, completely defenseless; so the Ranger gently wakes her up and asks a) if she's OK and b) why she is risking sleeping unguarded in such a dangerous area.  The PC freaks out at a) the sight of a stranger in her tent and b) his inference that there's no guards outside.  Two sentries (other PCs) hear the commotion and come racing in; the first tries to attack the Ranger and spectacularly fumbles, face-planting next to his feet.  Before the Ranger can react beyond simply looking down the second PC-sentry puts a max-effect critical into his back, killing him instantly.So yeah, it happens. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-"to this day I remember the exact words I said next, through the palm covering my face: 'Nice going, guys - you just killed off your reinforcements.'"-efan</blockquote>

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