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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7460590" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>I find that granting advantage for flanking trivializes advantage and makes it too easy to obtain. As such, I would not offer it up as a benefit for flanking.</p><p></p><p>However, I do like that flanking to provide some benefit. As such, I instituted the following rule for flanking to make it a 'lockdown' technique that returns a bit of battlefield control to the game that was stripped in the move from 4E to 5E:</p><p></p><p><strong>A flanked creature that voluntarily moves out of the flanked position provokes opportunity attacks from all enemies adjacent to it when it moved from the flank. </strong></p><p></p><p>I also have a rule that allows a creature that is being flanked to ignore some of the creatures flanking it to avoid provoking OAs from all adjacent enemies, but doing so allows those ignored creatures to immediately make OAs with advantage - and if they hit, they crit. If you're flanked by a Stone Giant and a Goblin, you can ignore the goblin and put all your attention on the Stone Giant to avoid provoking an OA if you move. The goblin may nail you the best way it can... but that is nothing compared to what a Stone Giant might do to you on an OA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7460590, member: 2629"] I find that granting advantage for flanking trivializes advantage and makes it too easy to obtain. As such, I would not offer it up as a benefit for flanking. However, I do like that flanking to provide some benefit. As such, I instituted the following rule for flanking to make it a 'lockdown' technique that returns a bit of battlefield control to the game that was stripped in the move from 4E to 5E: [b]A flanked creature that voluntarily moves out of the flanked position provokes opportunity attacks from all enemies adjacent to it when it moved from the flank. [/b] I also have a rule that allows a creature that is being flanked to ignore some of the creatures flanking it to avoid provoking OAs from all adjacent enemies, but doing so allows those ignored creatures to immediately make OAs with advantage - and if they hit, they crit. If you're flanked by a Stone Giant and a Goblin, you can ignore the goblin and put all your attention on the Stone Giant to avoid provoking an OA if you move. The goblin may nail you the best way it can... but that is nothing compared to what a Stone Giant might do to you on an OA. [/QUOTE]
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