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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 8029808" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Make the question harder by making the ambushing enemies be invisible and inaudible (let's imagine some form of incorporeal undead that happens to be invisible).In such a situation, even imagining things happening more or less simultaneously in most battles, you get a situation where it doesn't make as much sense to pre-narrate what a monster is doing, as there likely won't be any visual or auditory clues other than a nasty glow as your life is being stolen from you or such.Now, there are two ways to handle this. The first is to try really hard to find ways to make sure that can't actually happen. You assume that attacks cannot happen without giving a prior indicator. The second is to acknowledge that attacks can happen without any prior indication, and find a way to describe the surprised or not surprised state given that setup (the spidey-sense idea of something feeling off, tends to almost always be an effective answer with that version).While I might use the first approach if it is easy to explain, I tend to prefer the second approach if the first approach is tricky, because it always works.</blockquote>