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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 6812535" data-attributes="member: 467">Threads evolve. We stopped discussing where it was with that answer you mentioned. We have been discussing the value of flanking and its alternatives ever since.My point was that there is a reason it is an optional rule and not a standard rule, and Help is what takes the place of flanking in the standard rules. You can assert all day long that the way you play the game is the right way, go ahead, but don't assert flanking as you prefer to use it is the standard way the rules are intended to be used. many people in this thread have pointed out how flanking affects the game and how certain elements, including feats and class abilities and special monster abilities, will be impacted if you use that optional rule. The very fact that you have to make such considerations and might well imbalance combat if you don't should illustrate pretty succinctly why it is an optional rule.</blockquote>