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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 734532" data-attributes="member: 1213">The room is reletively small and these guys were not surprised (you guys made noise killing the guy in the next room, busted down the door, and waited a moment for the summoned critter to fry itself).The attacks on Ubaar were AOOs with reach weapons.  they threatened the area in front of the door ten feet away.  Their steps back were 5-foot steps.Ubaar's initiative is not very good, and these guys sem fast.  Elone, Alex, and Rana did go before them, though.How did they have time to draw their swords?  You are not sure, but they might have quickdraw, enchanted swords/scabbards, etc.  There are a wide variety of ways to do it.  Ubaar did enough damage to kill the bugbear, who had already taken  a smack from Akharos.  The additional neck-snapping was just xtra cinema.  I get your point about it negating stats somewhat, but note that I would not have, say, Alex, or even Akharos for that matter, perform such a move.  I let Ubaar do it precisely because he has been built mechanically as a wrestler. If you want to if/than in your own cinematic descriptions, go ahead.Regarding the prepared defenses, to reveal a mute point now, you guys also did not do any magic searches.  Alarm spells are very easy to come by.  Also, it does indeed seem that this place was built to be defended, have good fall-back points, etc.  Finally, note that (again, revealing a minor point), the Sharrans were making some sort of business deal with the gnoll, who had an armed guard present.  He was an outsider and a threat, and so discussions were held in that room.  Does it not make sense to have defenses prepared to keep shady business partners with big ol bodyguards from busting deeper in?  Is it not even concievable that someone was manning the defenses even then?</blockquote>

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