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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 5570518" data-attributes="member: 43019">Brash Assault works, even if the monster knows. It's not necessarily an optimal choice, but frankly warlords don't have that many of those. It's better than Sure Strike, certainly.And Brash Assault with Harlequin style is flat out ridiculously good.I just spent 15 minutes trying to find a single thread where people played it your way. My google skills are failing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Anyhow, even at its core, if you assume the following -Brash Assault is always known, and will only result in the free attack being taken when the DM feels it is in his best interest...That's still fairly often. Whenever the monster feels it deals more damage than the ally. Whenever the monster cares more about dropping the healer (warlord) than in being damaged itself. Whenever things are sufficiently close that a monster getting a free crit might shift the course of battle. Whenever it would make the battle more fun or go faster, or the enemy cares more about the &quot;war&quot; than the particular battle. Etc.And all without needing to make a knowledge check or &quot;gut call&quot; every time the power comes up, to see whether the monster would know that it's going to get attacked when it's used on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="keterys, post: 5570518, member: 43019"] Brash Assault works, even if the monster knows. It's not necessarily an optimal choice, but frankly warlords don't have that many of those. It's better than Sure Strike, certainly. And Brash Assault with Harlequin style is flat out ridiculously good. I just spent 15 minutes trying to find a single thread where people played it your way. My google skills are failing :( Anyhow, even at its core, if you assume the following - Brash Assault is always known, and will only result in the free attack being taken when the DM feels it is in his best interest... That's still fairly often. Whenever the monster feels it deals more damage than the ally. Whenever the monster cares more about dropping the healer (warlord) than in being damaged itself. Whenever things are sufficiently close that a monster getting a free crit might shift the course of battle. Whenever it would make the battle more fun or go faster, or the enemy cares more about the "war" than the particular battle. Etc. And all without needing to make a knowledge check or "gut call" every time the power comes up, to see whether the monster would know that it's going to get attacked when it's used on it. [/QUOTE]

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