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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abirdcall" data-source="post: 7687042" data-attributes="member: 6748898">So in your game if you are surprised you are paralyzed? You can't flinch? If I have surprised you I can walk straight up to you and stick a dagger in your heart and no amount of fast reflexes can stop it.You are right about the first bit. You can't defend against it through normal means. The assassin still gets advantage for being an unseen attacker, they just don't get an auto crit. This is well represented in movies and tv shows. Why is this hard to visualize? Or even understand that these are the rules? The rules should at least be as clear as day, especially now with the sage advice clarifying them.When your initiative comes up you are right that you have nothing to react to. That is why reactions happen in reaction to things. You don't cast shield on your turn, you cast it when you are hit in an attempt to not be hit.An incapacitated creature gets auto-critted by melee attacks. You don't have to do anything on your turn to defend against that. When it is another creatures turn they are assumed to be moving.Have you banned the shield spell in your games?I just don't get this thinking.</blockquote>