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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6241423" data-attributes="member: 1465">I would say that in order for Sulannus to go back to the outer cave she would have to pass through the melee between the spearmen and your allies. We're not really keeping track of exact positions, but roughly I could imagine that the distance covered while disengaging (i.e. half your speed = 15ft) will get you there but probably not past the spearmen's 10ft reach. OTOH, we can assume she could at least take the second move in a way that passes only through the reach of one of the two spearmen but not both.All in all, I think this is quite the essential purpose of opportunity attacks rules in 5e: to give a risk/penalty for anyone trying to either run away from the enemies, or run past them (whatever they are trying to reach beyond them).I shouldn't suggest you what to do <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> but based to what I just wrote, I'd say that if you take this course of action, you'll trigger only one opportunity attack, and Tock could use his Protection Fighting Style to cause disadvantage to such attack.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6241423, member: 1465"] I would say that in order for Sulannus to go back to the outer cave she would have to pass through the melee between the spearmen and your allies. We're not really keeping track of exact positions, but roughly I could imagine that the distance covered while [I]disengaging [/I] (i.e. half your speed = 15ft) will get you there but probably not past the spearmen's 10ft reach. OTOH, we can assume she could at least take the second move in a way that passes only through the reach of one of the two spearmen but not both. All in all, I think this is quite the essential purpose of opportunity attacks rules in 5e: to give a risk/penalty for anyone trying to either run away from the enemies, or run past them (whatever they are trying to reach beyond them). I shouldn't suggest you what to do ;) but based to what I just wrote, I'd say that if you take this course of action, you'll trigger only [I]one[/I] opportunity attack, and Tock could use his [I]Protection Fighting Style[/I] to cause disadvantage to such attack. [/QUOTE]

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