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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8165617" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Ok, so I've had some time to review some things and I am changing my response. What changed my mind was thinking more about what Dread Ambusher is hoping to accomplish: killing a target as quickly as possible. That first strike is the one you want the extra d8 of damage on to increase your chances of killing your target.So, in general, you would want the first attack to be the additional attack with the d8 bonus damage if it hits. Of course, you might have reasons for not having it be your first attack on your turn, like maybe your first attack takes out a bodyguard and then your &quot;additional&quot; attack with the extra damage is for the main target (you wouldn't want to waste the damage on the bodyguard after all).Anyway, wording aside that is what changed my mind. Personally, as I said in my first post, making an attack first is a perfectly valid interpretation--- which is all ANYONE here is doing: offering their interpretation. No one here has any authority outside of interpretation when it comes to the rules of the game, so maybe people should stop acting like they do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8165617, member: 6987520"] Ok, so I've had some time to review some things and I am changing my response. What changed my mind was thinking more about what Dread Ambusher is hoping to accomplish: killing a target as quickly as possible. That first strike is the one you want the extra d8 of damage on to increase your chances of killing your target. So, in general, you would want the first attack to be the additional attack with the d8 bonus damage if it hits. Of course, you might have reasons for [I]not[/I] having it be your first attack on your turn, like maybe your first attack takes out a bodyguard and then your "additional" attack with the extra damage is for the main target (you wouldn't want to waste the damage on the bodyguard after all). Anyway, wording aside that is what changed my mind. Personally, as I said in my first post, making an attack [I]first[/I] is a perfectly valid interpretation--- which is all [I]ANYONE[/I] here is doing: offering [I]their[/I] interpretation. No one here has any authority outside of interpretation when it comes to the rules of the game, so maybe people should stop acting like they do. ;) [/QUOTE]

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