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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7106379" data-attributes="member: 6704184">This. My wife's Paladin and the group's dwarven Immortal Mystic (flavored as a dragon sorcerer) don't complain that the shadar-kai monk teleports around and is often obscured in shadows or outright hidden when not attacking. They celebrate that while they pin enemies to themselves, someone is ganking the everloving crap out of them. And since they both do strong damage themselves, enemies die fast when these tactics are being used. We now have a sniper of sorts in the form of a Nomad Mystic, and a mixed range controller in the form of a land druid, in addition to the skirmishing ranger and the pyro-mage and the warlock. We sometimes have as many as 8 people on the team, but usually the monk and ranger are NPC mode, or circumstance requires the team to split up to reach their goals. But even when it's just the main party, and no ranger or monk, you've got two Tough Guys, a and 4 mixed ranged or purely ranged combatants. If one of them is out of harm's way, sniping, they love that. They want at least one guy on a rooftop, in a tower, or on a nearby hilltop, sniping enemies. It makes the party more tactically effective, even when outnumbered. The sniper can punish enemies for moving tactically, and can get advantage on attacks by being hidden. I even houserule in an Aim action that uses a bonus action on a turn where you haven't' moved, that just gives you Advantage, and reworked Sharpshooter to replace the -5/+10 mechanic with getting a damage bonus when you Aim. Which means you want to get far out and/or up high, and then post there until the enemy identifies your position and figures a way to threaten you, and then kite or sneak your way to a new position. If my player's werent' into this sort of creative tactical thinking, I still can't imagine it being a problem to have a PC do the same basic thing.</blockquote>

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