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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6994890" data-attributes="member: 42582">No. This is the crux. They act straight away, and attack the cleric. The fact that a round break happens between the resolution of their dash and the making of their attack is completely a mechanical artifice.Look at it another way: suppose that you run an encounter where the PCs have to fight some baddies in the middle of a stadium, while some sprinters run the 400 meter (approx 1300') dash around the perimeter.In the real world, that sprint wil take 45 seconds to a minute+, depending on quality of runners etc. In the game, a rogue can run at 90' per 6 seconds (dash+bonus dash) or 15' per second, meaning it will take over a minute to run the race. However exactly we set the time, it's clearly multiple rounds - somewhere between 8 and 10+Now suppose we're resolving this situation. Each character takes his/her turn - including the sprinters, as we might want to know which of them inadvertently gets caught in AoEs etc - and that is resolved. In the course of this, the sprinters will move their speeds, then "pause" as other turns are taken. But do we really suppose that, in the fiction, each sprinter stops after 6 seconds of running and then starts again? To me, that would be absurd. The illusion of stop/start is just than - an illusion. It is a byproduct of turn-by-turn intitiative/resolution. In the fiction the sprinters don't stop - they just keep running.As for the sprinters, so for B gnolls. They don't stop after dashing through the aura and before attacking the cleric. In the ficiton, it's continuous action. It is only the mechanical turn structure - which includes the completely artificial notion of starting your turn - that (i) creates an illusion of discontinuity, and (ii) results in the B gnolls taking an extra helping of damage.</blockquote>

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