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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6678753" data-attributes="member: 7006">In this merging of 5E's movement plus a recreation of 4E's flanking bonus... there's two ways I can answer this for myself.One the one hand, I was never so strict on flanking in 4E such that if two people already were flanking a target, a third could come in adjacent to one of the two and also get the flanking bonus.&nbsp; Thus, when you merge in 5E's movement rule, the third person in the OP's question would never need to stand in the same space as one of the two allies anyway to also gain advantage on the roll.&nbsp; Thus, the third character would have Advantage as well.But seeing as how this takes into account my own personal houserule on 4E flanking... if I was to do a stricter ruling on this, I think I'd probably go along with what&nbsp;&nbsp; [MENTION=6791950]cmad1977[/MENTION] said above.&nbsp; The third person would technically get Advantage from the flanking... but they'd also be fighting while under the Squeezing Into A Smaller Space situation (since they are sharing a 5' space with another character) and thus have Disadvantage on the attack too.With Advantage and Disadvantage cancelling each other out, the third person would get no bonus on the attack.&nbsp; Thus moving and attacking from the flanking position is unnecessary, and they can instead just move to wherever they were going and attack from there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6678753, member: 7006"] In this merging of 5E's movement plus a recreation of 4E's flanking bonus... there's two ways I can answer this for myself. One the one hand, I was never so strict on flanking in 4E such that if two people already were flanking a target, a third could come in adjacent to one of the two and also get the flanking bonus. Thus, when you merge in 5E's movement rule, the third person in the OP's question would never need to stand in the same space as one of the two allies anyway to also gain advantage on the roll. Thus, the third character would have Advantage as well. But seeing as how this takes into account my own personal houserule on 4E flanking... if I was to do a stricter ruling on this, I think I'd probably go along with what [MENTION=6791950]cmad1977[/MENTION] said above. The third person would technically get Advantage from the flanking... but they'd also be fighting while under the Squeezing Into A Smaller Space situation (since they are sharing a 5' space with another character) and thus have Disadvantage on the attack too. With Advantage and Disadvantage cancelling each other out, the third person would get no bonus on the attack. Thus moving and attacking from the flanking position is unnecessary, and they can instead just move to wherever they were going and attack from there. [/QUOTE]

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