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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6281818" data-attributes="member: 7006">While the rules probably could have something added or removed to close or narrow this loophole... speaking personally as a DM who might eventually have to adjudicate this type of scenario, my instinct would be to say to myself &quot;Okay... this is something the duergar could do right now by the rules, but it only is going to work because I saved time by rolling their initiative as a group, rather than rolling each one individually as I probably should have.&nbsp; So if I'm going to artificially have them all go at once... I need to artificially agree not to take advantage of that situation.&quot;Now that being said... if I was to decide to actually roll each duergar's initiative separately, and their numbers all worked out that they still could pull this tactic off... at that point I might let them work the MAM corridor thing.&nbsp; Still kind of cheesy due to the &quot;all combat is supposed to happen simultaneously&quot; paradigm... but at least both sides cannot claim unfair advantage.&nbsp; They both rolled initiative individually, and they both have the opportunity to try this tactic out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6281818, member: 7006"] While the rules probably could have something added or removed to close or narrow this loophole... speaking personally as a DM who might eventually have to adjudicate this type of scenario, my instinct would be to say to myself "Okay... this is something the duergar [I]could[/I] do right now by the rules, but it only is going to work because I saved time by rolling their initiative as a group, rather than rolling each one individually as I probably should have. So if I'm going to artificially have them all go at once... I need to artificially agree not to take advantage of that situation." Now that being said... if I was to decide to actually roll each duergar's initiative separately, and their numbers all worked out that they still could pull this tactic off... at that point I might let them work the MAM corridor thing. Still kind of cheesy due to the "all combat is supposed to happen simultaneously" paradigm... but at least both sides cannot claim unfair advantage. They both rolled initiative individually, and they both have the opportunity to try this tactic out. [/QUOTE]

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