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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMAesh" data-source="post: 7003108" data-attributes="member: 6801331">Listen, in all seriousness, I insisted on being in front of her, because I have the potential for the greatest damage and Erevan was hesitant about being front and center. Having the dagger is also not merely 1d4 damage, but also an additional +2 to hit and damage for me, since unarmed combat is not finesse. Waiting for Erevan to distribute weapons potentially wastes an entire round or longer, and if we DON'T have surprise, that is an entire round that we soak attacks without the ability to strike back.Relying on the dwarf to kick off the surprise round was much more debilitating than my Sleight of Hand (which is pretty good, to begin with) was, at least in my mind. (Considering that it was reliant on a Dex check, which I imagine is not stellar.)Now it feels that your frustration is predicated on assuming that this priestess has an insane Perception skill. My assumption, and this may be faulty, is that NOT everyone is trained in the Perception skill. Sure she probably has a high Wisdom, but I was hoping that my +5 would give me an edge. I am placing a lot of trust in the DM to take these kinds of things into account as well. I mean we are already outnumbered and at a disadvantage, I felt that Ezraen would try to stack a little bit more in our favor, calling upon skills from past life...I think that the miscommunication comes in that you are making an assumption that Erevan can get us all our weapons in one round, where I am making the assumption that he cannot. You think I am threatening our surprise, where I think I am giving us a shot to maximize damage that first round, surprise or not.I'll let it drop, but I did feel like your initial response was an attack at me, thinking I was just trying to be stupid. This is my explanation, meta AND story.</blockquote>

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