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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8870348" data-attributes="member: 93670">You aren't using the term rocket tag quite right, that's just shooting fish in a barrel because you describe a situation where only one side is equipped with a rocket to tag with.  Also it's not just casters.  The math for <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-to-bound-the-bounded-accuracy-in-magic-items-for-1d-d.693894/post-8862280" target="_blank">the monster subsystem in general</a>, and <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-to-bound-the-bounded-accuracy-in-magic-items-for-1d-d.693894/post-8862982" target="_blank">one off exceptions</a> is designed to crumple like wet tissue to an unoptimized party until the GM is basically invoking rocks fall unless the GM starts homebrewing a whole new monster subsystem.  The monsters are not capable of creating a rocket tag situation until they are powerful enough that the party is not capable of inconvieniencing the monsters.3.x did have the ability to slide into rocket tag, but it also had various tools 5e stripped from the GM like <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-focus-fire-problem.690498/#post-8721960" target="_blank">this</a> or <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/giving-an-ad-d-feel-to-5e.679228/post-8241363" target="_blank">this</a> or even <a href="https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=322" target="_blank">this</a> by a different less quotable name plus <a href="https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3e_SRD:Attacks_of_Opportunity" target="_blank">this stuff</a> & associated hooks spelled out on phb141 table8-2 but those too were torn from 5e.  Using those tools the GM could finesse monsters to their group in ways that kept the battle appearing somewhat uncertain even when it was fixed the whole time.</blockquote>

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