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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Otterscrubber" data-source="post: 4777104" data-attributes="member: 4588">When a creature is grabbed, does it occupy the same space it did when it was grabbed, does it automatically get pulled adjacent to the grabber or does it share the grabbers space?  Can the grabber position himself or the grabee as desired?  I've been a little confused on this a bit.  I see a few monsters with special grabbing abilities, like the Yuan-ti abomination, and I'm trying to figure out how to make use of it?Grabbing someone as it in the rules does not seem to make too much sense, unless you are grabbing a PC that is ranged attacks only.  It only seems to immobilize them without causing any other combat disadvantages and keeping them in one spot just seems to tie down the monster, who can't move as easily with a grabbed victim, thus becoming more prone to flanking by my PCs.  Grabbin seems to be almost as much of a hinderance as a help.In my next fight I plan on using Nightshade from the lvl 8 Delve, my Pcs are lvl 9 and have some decent gear so I was going to throw in a Yuan-ti abomination to increase the challenge.  Was trying to figure out how to make use of the grab ability of the Yuan-Ti.</blockquote>