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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karui_Kage" data-source="post: 4344689" data-attributes="member: 53610">Dealing damage to the PC is only part of the issue. The text says "any creature striking you or your ally with a natural attack or a nonreach melee weapon is...." It seems pretty specific.I also said that the pounce issue was the least of my worries, and I only noticed it's craziness in that one scenario. And, like you have pointed out, it's probably fine because of the crazy damage they dished out.I do disagree that it would trigger off a constriction, and I'm still on the fence about swarms. A constriction is neither a 'natural attack' (that is defined in the back of the MM) nor a nonreach melee weapon. You might think of the swarm moving into someone's square as a 'natural attack' as well, but again, it doesn't seem to fall under the definition in the back.Regardless of my own feelings about whether these fit into the two qualifications for the aura or not, balance issues notwithstanding, I'm asking if they fit by RAW or have been clarified by WotC. <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=":)" /> Thanks for the responses so far though.</blockquote>