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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5097762" data-attributes="member: 51942">My gut instinct is that it's pretty cheesy.  On second thought, if you  describe it well, I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem with you doing this  on a critter you just killed; I mean, that's a pretty cool assassin  move I'd imagine - and utterly non-problematic: if there's no creature  next to you, you could also just have moved 3 squares (also a move action), so typically this is going to be no better than moving.  In a few cases movement isn't possible, or is blocked - but 3 squares isn't all that exciting even then. This is certainly not a typical bag-o-rats as described in DMG; firstly, it's not an attack and doesn't require a hit, and secondly, it works with arbitrary creatures, not necessarily enemies.  Having said that, I see where you coming from.  The real reason this isn't a convincing argument is that to invoke the bag-o-rats rule, you'd want the action to be somehow overpowered or problematic - which this just isn't; it's more like a waste of an encounter power.This brings up another point: Although for speed of gameplay monsters are immediately considered dead when they drop to 0 hit points, behind the scenes, you can use the full dying rules, when it matters - and with those, it's quite unlikely that a dropped creature is really dead.  As a DM, for dramatic flair I'd consider it perfectly acceptable to have a mook pour a healing potion down his leaders throat.  From a consistency perspective, I prefer the power to work equally adjacent to all dying creatures - allies and just-dropped monsters alike. It also seems non-abusable, so I'd allow it.  A DM could even generally allow it but occasionally rule otherwise without being unreasonable - if you crit+kill someone, or solidly bash a minion, perhaps the shadow's simply gone too far; the critter's no longer dying but dead.In any case, I wouldn't see a problem with interpreting this power while considering recently dropped creatures as alive (but dying).  Teleporting away from a bug seems more problematic...</blockquote>

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