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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7148065" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Since 'surprise' in 5E simply means that you cannot take reactions until after your first turn and cannot move or act during your first turn, then by definition 'immunity to surprise' means that you can use reactions before your first turn and you can move/act during your first turn.Only telling the party what they can see and not telling them about the things they failed to notice(!) is not 're-inserting backdoor surprise'.War, battle, armed conflict, whatever you want to call it, is not all about being 'fair'. Combatants use strategy, superior numbers, training, equipment, terrain, everything in their power to be as unfair as possible!This includes hiding in ambush. How ambushing works is that you hide from the enemy, so that they don't notice you until after they attack. That's how it works!There is no omniscient power that mystically exists to inform those caught in an ambush of the numbers, type and deployment of ambushers that they have not noticed!You're damn right it's unfair! It's unfair by design! That's the point of ambush. That's the point of ALL military strategy: to arrange things so that it is not fair but instead so heavily favouring you that you are almost sure to win!The Alert feat does exactly what it says it does. Nowhere does it state or even suggest that the feat lets you know ANYTHING about those who are about to attack you.Here's a quote on the same subject in another forum:-The Feat means you are not surprised, it does not give you any further mechanical advantages. It does not automatically allow you to know where the enemy is, or what they are doing.</blockquote>

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