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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 4341632" data-attributes="member: 1656">Right.You're making up flavour text that doesn't exist, then finding that the mechanics don't fit with the flavour text.  Solution?  Make up different flavour text.Flanking grants combat advantage.  You're flanking if you and an ally are on opposite sides, if you and your ally are able to attack, if you and your ally have line of effect to the enemy, and if you aren't prevented from taking opportunity actions.If you satisfy those criteria, you're flanking and you gain combat advantage.This is true whether or not you're invisible, whether or not the enemy is blind, and indeed whether or not the enemy is conscious.  Of course, usually if the enemy is blind or unconscious, you'll have Combat Advantage anyway.When you won't get combat advantage is if the enemy becomes invisible.The enemy doesn't need to be aware of you for you to cause difficulties for him against your flanking ally.  Perhaps you foul his ankle or his weapon at a critical instant, leaving an opening your ally can exploit while the enemy blames the uneven terrain for hampering him.  Perhaps you distract him briefly by making a sound he flinches towards, only to see nothing behind him.If you satisfy the mechanical requirements (opposite, able, and allied), the flavour can be described to justify the result (combat advantage).-Hyp.</blockquote>