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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2783778" data-attributes="member: 2020">Just an attempt at solving the Fog of War thing:  What if a Spot check is required to find out what is happening with your friends, since you have to deliberately attempt to look through the chaos and enemy fighters (orcs, in this case) to find your friend and see what his personal situation is?    The Spot check is not needed if your friends are 10 feet away and/or if you are not under attack this round.  For example, Gandalf didn't see that Frodo was under attack.  Nor did he try to make a Spot check to see what was happening to Frodo.  Aragorn, however, did make a Spot check (as shown by that look on his face when he first saw the danger.)  Merry and Pippin were close to Frodo, so they obviously saw what the cave troll was doing, and took actions against the cave troll before and after Frodo was stabbed.  There is no real way to avoid AOO in a mass battle, IMO.  Just hope you have Dodge and Mobility.  (In real world mass combats, they wore the heaviest armor they could, and hoped it would save them.  Mail was resistant to the knife in the back type of attack.)  -  Yeah, I have sorta fallen in love with Improved Unarmed Strike.  <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=":)" />  I watched Terminator 2, and here you have the Terminator and the T1000 brawling like crazy, whenever firearms are not in play.  Lurtz didn't hesitate to brawl with Aragorn, instead of using weapons.  He almost won that way, too.  If I am a warrior, I'm not just going to try to kill the foe with a sword or other weapon.  I'm going to punch, kick, knock dirt up in his face, throw every object at him that is handy, wrestle with him if he closes, try to drown him in the horse trough, and every other dirty tactic I can think of.  Because I'm no paladin or cavalier!  LOL.  James Bond was a brawler.  As Zaknafein said to Drizzt:  You are a dancer (implied:  you are not a killer.)  A true fighter is a killer.  He dances with the sword when needed, and brawls when needed.  Whatever it takes to win, is his mentality.    Why should it be otherwise?  Even an elven bladesinger - an honorable, noble elven warrior - is going to brawl, if it will add an advantage to her bladesong methology.  If Lando had been better at brawling (and, perhaps, worse at betraying everyone) they would not have had to have saved his sorry hide from the Sarlaac in Return of the Jedi.  Captain Kirk was ALWAYS brawling with his foes (LOL)  So were the characters portrayed by John Wayne.  Flash Gordon did a lot of brawling.  In the Matrix, everyone involved had Improved Unarmed Strike (and a lot more than that, obviously.)  What do you'all think?</blockquote>

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