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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 9275623" data-attributes="member: 3586">This is a level 9 party. The rogue on his own is dealing 6d6+6 damage every turn, and focused fire from the rest of group is doing more on top of that.Closing the door wanders into a lot of problems with rules interpretations. I posted about it before, but in a little more detail: at what point do you move from readied actions to roll initiative again?If you start an encounter where both sides are aware of the others presence, do you allowed readied actions before initiative begins? The answer is "no". You must move into initiative.Now, when do you drop out of initiative?If both sides have been sitting looking at the door for five minutes, has initiative stopped?(This is also turning into a really boring combat as both sides are waiting for someone to open the door).Door opens... but both sides have readied actions. Who acts first?(And honestly, a good trick is the AC 20+ Paladin takes the Dodge action, moves up to open the door, then moves back).And we're going through all these tactical and rules convolutions to deal with a situation that is just making the combat drawn out. It's not really an interesting tactical puzzle. Cheers,Merric</blockquote>