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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6967179" data-attributes="member: 6799649">How would real people react?If you were the Alert guy, would you just stay in cover forever? Buff yourself and move forward when you're ready? Take another route, if there is one? Start scrying? Send allies to circle round? Just go home, because you've got a bad feeling?What if you were the assassin? Would you curse your luck and attack anyway? Wait until he comes out of cover? Move to a position where his position no longer gives him cover? Just try to wait forever until the target moves first? Give it up as a bad job and go home?It depends what the assassin is there for. When setting an ambush there is always the possibility that they might spot you. You should have a plan to cope with that.For the Alert guy, he's got things to do, places to be. He must have expected the possibility of being attacked on the road, it's unlikely that he'll just go home again just because he got a bad feeling.In game terms, the Alert guy moves to cover and casts shield of faith. The assassin silently curses the gods and uses Stealth to move around to get line of sight; he knows that his opportunity to use the Assassinate special ability has gone.Simply run the combat, asking what each does on their turn, just like in every other combat.If the assassin takes his bat & ball home every time he can't get an auto-crit, he's not going to get paid! If he finds that he isn't being successful using ambush then he's going to have to think of a different approach.</blockquote>

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