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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8858758" data-attributes="member: 6750306">More  comical than dramatic, but it definitely turned the tide of a fight...Back in 4E, the party was going to fight a large group of bandits, so we waited until the guy currently in charge (half of them were out on a raid) took a trip to the outhouse, snuck up and tied a rope around it to keep him in there until the end of the fight......At which point we yanked the rope to untie it, the guy came charging out... and took an entire party's worth of readied actions to the face.Later on, when the bandits who'd been out on the raid came back, we were ready to ambush them - we'd carefully coordinated our first several rounds of actions. Half the party was hiding inside their headquarters. Interrogation of prisoners from the last fight revealed they had a melee fighter and a wizard leading the raiding party, so when they came into the building the fighter got shoved back outside and the door slammed in his face by a pair of readied actions at the same time my ranger jumped out of the rafters onto the wizard, knocking them face down on the ground and covering their mouth. A couple rounds later the wizard was dead, one of the party members who'd closed the door unlocked it, and the guy came charging in only to get several more readied actions in the face.Meanwhile, outside the building, the other half of the party who'd been hiding in the woods had readied actions to unload some area spells on the rest of the bandits when we opened the door to let the bandit fighter guy in.Unfortunately the original nova strike on the fighter wasn't enough to take him out, and he ended up taking a few rounds of three-on-one to kill. Long enough that my ranger ended up breaking off and doing an end run around through the back door to go support the folks outside. Comically, that "support" ended up being my ranger getting chased around the outside of the building twice by a number of the bandits as she kited them.</blockquote>

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