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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7304275" data-attributes="member: 40176">Will they know they're facing a medusa? And how do you feel about 5e's default rules on fighting in total darkness/concealment?The default tactic for taking on a medusa is to eliminate its main advantage by taking sight out of the equation. Favoured methods are Darkness and Fog Cloud, but others are available.By default rules, characters in D&amp;D always know each others' positions unless they take an action to Hide, so if the party know the enemies' starting positions and then hit them with a line-of-sight obscuring effect, they'll all still know where each other are throughout the fight unless someone uses a Hide action.Also, they'll all have disadvantage on their attacks because they're attacking an unseen target, and have advantage on their attacks because they're attacking a target that can't see them - which cancels out to nobody being able to gain either advantage or disadvantage throughout the entire combat.Essentially, this would transform the fight into a slugfest, and the medusa into a bog-standard ranged combatant.One possible use for the clerics would be to counteract such effects (preparing Gust of Wind to blow away fog, or Daylight to counter Darkness), though they'd only be able to do so under the medusa's guidance, as they wouldn't perceive such effects themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7304275, member: 40176"] Will they know they're facing a medusa? And how do you feel about 5e's default rules on fighting in total darkness/concealment? The default tactic for taking on a medusa is to eliminate its main advantage by taking sight out of the equation. Favoured methods are [i]Darkness[/i] and [i]Fog Cloud[/i], but others are available. By default rules, characters in D&D always know each others' positions unless they take an action to Hide, so if the party know the enemies' starting positions and then hit them with a line-of-sight obscuring effect, they'll all still know where each other are throughout the fight unless someone uses a Hide action. Also, they'll all have disadvantage on their attacks because they're attacking an unseen target, and have advantage on their attacks because they're attacking a target that can't see them - which cancels out to nobody being able to gain either advantage or disadvantage throughout the entire combat. Essentially, this would transform the fight into a slugfest, and the medusa into a bog-standard ranged combatant. One possible use for the clerics would be to counteract such effects (preparing [i]Gust of Wind[/i] to blow away fog, or [i]Daylight[/i] to counter [i]Darkness[/i]), though they'd only be able to do so under the medusa's guidance, as they wouldn't perceive such effects themselves. [/QUOTE]

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