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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 1086565" data-attributes="member: 907">Re: duh sorryWhat the PHB has to say about flanking is this: When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by a character or creature friendly to you on the opponent's opposite border or opposite corner.So, flanking doesn't have anything directly to do with the attacker threatening - only with someone else doing. The attacker has to make a melee attack, which I'll admit is pretty hard to do if you don't threaten (though it could happen - someone making an unarmed attack without Improved Unarmed Strike, for example).</blockquote>