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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 6812527" data-attributes="member: 413">A reminder on the surprise rules from the beginning of the game:Surprise: In general only one side ever has any surprised characters. It will work slightly differently depending on if it is monsters or PCs. Like I said, I don't like the surprise mechanic. So I am changing it just a bit as outlined here. A surprised character has the "surprised" condition at the start of the first round of combat.- Attacks against the character have advantage- The character makes dex saves with disadvantage- The character cannot take reactions- At the beginning of the character's group's turn it takes any start of turn effects, then it is moved into the last group in the round and it is no longer 'surprised'. So if it's a PC in the first group it will now just be moved to the last group. If it's a monster, it will be moved to after the last group of PCs (and usually either all the monsters will be surprised or none but sometimes maybe we'll have two groups of monsters).Read more: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?469475-OOC-Uller-s-Out-of-the-Abyss#ixzz3ykIzsfdD" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?469475-OOC-Uller-s-Out-of-the-Abyss#ixzz3ykIzsfdD</a>So both Ezraen and Evendur are surprised.  Ezraen beat the spider in init so he avoids having it's attacks on him be at advantage but will still go after the spider.  cliff hanger!!!!  ;-)</blockquote>

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