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<blockquote data-quote="N8Ball" data-source="post: 5007781" data-attributes="member: 63757">The Wizard in our group developed a nasty habit of including my character and the other Dragonborn in his area of effect blasts in order to maximize enemy damage.&nbsp; Sometimes he would catch other characters, but mostly just the dragonborn.Above game it was humorous and not a huge issue since he didn't do it in really tough fights, and in-game he played it as a secret fascination for the dragonborn ability to gain attack ability when bloodied.&nbsp; He has been grooming his character to be a bloodmage, studying the &quot;power of blood&quot; since early on and this was part of his character development.&nbsp; Eventually, through better &quot;enemy only&quot; effects and a few in-character threats from other characters, he has grown out of it (mostly), attributing it to &quot;greater control of his magic.&quot;Your question, &quot;Would the ally consider this an act of aggression?&quot; has everything to do with the player playing that ally and not DM adjudication. &nbsp;If the player decides his character gets ticked off about it then he does, if he doesn't then he doesn't.&nbsp; If it causes player vs player anger then that's a new issue, but in our case it was defiinitely ONLY characters who got ticked (only only after several superfluous events), not players.In particular, my character plays a hardened DB Taclord who would gladly take a hit while surrounded by enemies to maximize the attack.&nbsp; I've even considered taking Multi-fighter and &quot;Come and get it&quot; to maximize such tactics.&nbsp; If taking some damage will enable other 3 enemies to take the same damage then it's totally worth it.Also, &quot;War Wizardry&quot; is a GREAT feat for the more draconian (pun intended) wizards who use these tactics. -5 to hit allies and only 1/2 damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N8Ball, post: 5007781, member: 63757"] The Wizard in our group developed a nasty habit of including my character and the other Dragonborn in his area of effect blasts in order to maximize enemy damage. Sometimes he would catch other characters, but mostly just the dragonborn. Above game it was humorous and not a huge issue since he didn't do it in really tough fights, and in-game he played it as a secret fascination for the dragonborn ability to gain attack ability when bloodied. He has been grooming his character to be a bloodmage, studying the "power of blood" since early on and this was part of his character development. Eventually, through better "enemy only" effects and a few in-character threats from other characters, he has grown out of it (mostly), attributing it to "greater control of his magic." Your question, "Would the ally consider this an act of aggression?" has everything to do with the player playing that ally and not DM adjudication. If the player decides his character gets ticked off about it then he does, if he doesn't then he doesn't. If it causes player vs player anger then that's a new issue, but in our case it was defiinitely ONLY characters who got ticked (only only after several superfluous events), not players. In particular, my character plays a hardened DB Taclord who would gladly take a hit while surrounded by enemies to maximize the attack. I've even considered taking Multi-fighter and "Come and get it" to maximize such tactics. If taking some damage will enable other 3 enemies to take the same damage then it's totally worth it. Also, "War Wizardry" is a GREAT feat for the more draconian (pun intended) wizards who use these tactics. -5 to hit allies and only 1/2 damage. [/QUOTE]

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