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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 1998465" data-attributes="member: 23094">Right.  As part of this sentence:I don't disagree with you.  You obviously only get a +2 Flanking bonus on your attack roll if you are making a melee attack and your ally opposite threatens your opponent.I agree 100% with that statement.Unfortunately, that's not really the bone of contention.  In 3.0, Flanking was defined as:Thus, you and I were flanking when either I or you made a melee attack from opposite sides of a creature and while the other threatened.Compare that to the 3.5 definition of Flanking:Note that nowhere in this new, purposefully altered definition does the word "threaten" appear.EDIT TO ADD:Arkhandus: Read that text you highlighted very, very carefully.  *All* it says is that you only recieve a bonus to your attack roll when you make a melee attack.  Presumably, one must already be flanking to get such a bonus, right?Then go to the next paragraph.It defines the conditions that must be fulfilled in order to be considered flanking, and, as I mentioned above, none of those conditions require:1) Melee attacking, or2) Threatening</blockquote>