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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6595055" data-attributes="member: 2011">I view it as mob mentality. A bunch of people loot and throw rocks and overturn cars and do a lot of stupid stuff during mob mentality. They don't analyze whether they will take an OA, they just do that stupid stuff. Do you think that there are never educated people with high school and/or college diplomas in a mob who would normally analyze a situation, but don't in that frame of mind? Do you think that the rioting Kentucky students setting fire to stuff two weeks ago cared about OAs?Int 6 gnolls would do even more stupid stuff. Gnolls (and many other humanoid monsters) in my games drink alcohol beverages of various types and often fight with each other (not to the death), are belligerent, and just plain obnoxious. They're monsters. Some are dumb, some are crafty, but they are almost all out to fight with intruders (be those other invading monsters, or PCs).The main PHB mechanic for busting through a line of foes in 5E is the shove, so a large mob of creatures (smart, dumb, Orcs, Hobgoblins, Gnolls, it doesn't matter) running down a hallway shove foes out of their way and shove their allies in front of them through a line when they get to them. The main mechanic to emulate that in 5E is the shove, so as a DM, that's what I use. Whether any given creature in the flood takes an OA is mostly irrelevant. They have a Flaming Sphere behind them. Why would they care about an OA?In every movie of ancient warfare, two deep and long lines of foes rush each other. The guys in the front get run over, stabbed, killed, whatever and the two line merge into a blur of foes without them worrying about OAs. One line doesn't stop the other line and the foes do not stop just because one of their allies in front of them stops. They keep going.23 against 2 holding the line is like playing chess, not combat. Yes, there have been historic cases of a few soldiers holding a small area, but there are limits to plausibility.</blockquote>

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