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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4404024" data-attributes="member: 72317">Where does one draw the line? For example, the DM may have been intending to have Orcus attack the rogue with his touch of death ability. But the rogue strikes him first with a dance of death (or readies a standard action to hit Orcus with dance of death when he does so). Is the DM expected to follow through with said attack (and have the possibility of Orcus 1-shot himself if he "accidentally" rolls high enough to hit himself with his own death touch?).How far is the DM expected to follow through? Is he justified in not having foes hit by dance of death follow through with subsequent attacks? What if he just has them use basic attacks rather than encounter/special attacks with more potency? Say you are a rogue who has just used dance of death. How would you expect the DM to react to the use of this power so that you won't feel shafted, or that he is metagaming? I feel that the best solution would be to revise dance of death as some sort of immediate action counter to preserve its "gotcha!" aspect. This way, there is no conflict of interests.<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=":)" /></blockquote>