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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5065739" data-attributes="member: 82106">You can make the attack any time it is triggered. Grease lasts the whole encounter and the triggered attack has no mention of a limit on how much it can be used. Every time a creature enters the Grease zone you can make an Int vs Ref attack on it and if it succeeds the target is prone and you slide them 2 squares. The trick is you make the attack as soon as they try to cross the zone and then slide them BACK out the way they came. Now they have to stand up and try again (or give up). This makes it VERY difficult for creatures to cross the zone. Given that it is difficult terrain even if the attack misses then the creature will need at least 10 movement to get across. Also consider what happens if someone pushes a creature INTO the zone, you get to trigger your attack and possibly knock them prone and slide them! Note also it is a Free Action and thus there is NO limit on how often you can use it or when you can use it. Basically Grease makes a burst 2 zone that pretty well creates an area monsters cannot cross. Any monster attempting to do so is going to spend 2 movement actions inside the zone (unless it flies or its a very very fast monster). So its going to get hit with 2 Int vs Ref attacks (that have implement keyword BTW). Chances are slim they'll make it to the other side without getting hit. If they DO get hit then their movement is mostly negated by the slide AND they have to burn a move action just to stand again. Basically Grease is almost the ultimate low level area denial spell. Nothing beats it. In the vast majority of cases it simply wins the encounter. Even in the open where the monsters can go around it will likely prove to be the decisive advantage if used reasonably. Note also that for YOUR side the area IS difficult terrain but still not really that hard to cross. Its even possible you could slide your own guys in it, though that would probably be a pretty strange thing to do.</blockquote>

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