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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7157186" data-attributes="member: 7006">Let's also not forget that a round is 6 seconds long. So these initial attacks everyone is talking about is not necessarily people trying to react in milliseconds from each other, hoping to notice muscle twitches, or beads of sweat, or any other thing to try and justify reacting or not reacting to attacks that may or may not be coming from ambush.The attacks all take upwards of 6 seconds to make and complete. So there's absolutely no reason to question whether a person being ambushed could notice and react to an attack coming.  If it could take 6 seconds for that ambushing attack to be started and made, of course there's enough time for the non-surprised defender to react to it, including getting their own shot off first!If the non-surprised defender can't see the attacker because of a failed perception check, then the defender can either Dodge if they'd like (which would cancel the advantage the attacker would have gotten for being hidden), or they can make their own attack at disadvantage because the ambusher is hidden (and the defender would need to guess the space to attack too.)We want to make the start of every combat like two dueling gunfighters reacting to each other by milliseconds, but in truth  the definition of a round makes all of these attacks much longer to complete, and more than allows for people to make and complete theirs first.Sent from my SM-J320V using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=93205" target="_blank">EN World mobile app</a></blockquote>

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