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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 5192236" data-attributes="member: 2303">4E is very generous about letting conditional defense modifiers stack, which gets odd when several of them have the same trigger.In this case, a ranger shooting away at an adjacent monster that is also adjacent to and marked by a fighter forces the DM to make a role-playing decision. The monster probably does not have a chance in hell to hit the ranger, and grants the fighter an AO - it is definitely a tactically unsound decision to attack the Ranger in this case. Yet, does the monster know this? If you play 4E as a wargame, you don't let the monster do the AO. If you play it as a role-playing game, you probably make the attack - making the monster hamper itself.</blockquote>