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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8320854" data-attributes="member: 6696971">That isn't really how I've seen it deployed typically on chokepoints.  On chokepoints I've seen it used (like in this case) > Ready and cast at creature's (tank in this case) feet when they have already spent enough move/action economy to make it punitive > Cast + failed Dex save (this Enchanter could Portent to ensure a failed save if the lead tank somehow miraculously saved) and stand from Prone on 1st monster = monster behind can't long jump over it due to the obstruction.  That is what happened here.  It effectively (as a 1st level spell) caused action denial by proxy of 4 tanks.On a battlefield (like the Bay here), you typically have a bunch of other difficult/blocking terrain (cargo + pillars + ships in the scenario above) so you put Grease in a spot with adjacent blocking terrain so you can't just jump it (because you'll be ending in an illegal blocking terrain square).  So effectively, you shut down a much larger area than you would otherwise, forcing creatures to move around the area...basically action denial/catch-22 by proxy of screwing with action/move economy via amplifying the screw-job of the existing terrain.I couldn't tell you how much action denial/catch-22 by proxy it caused here.  It screwed up one round of pursuit from a pair of tanks and then I bailed on their gambit (the Tanks HPs were precariously low at that point) and had the infantry/pilots eject and it basically turned into a Star Wars rifle fire from cover and double back/around the Grease/Blocking Terrain feature.</blockquote>

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