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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 122017" data-attributes="member: 1149">Yes the desription lists its tactics, the description tells you how it tries to kill its prey. The rules give it no magical ability to automatically get its way.A good number of other creatures have the same burrow 20' plus tremorsense combo... do all of them automatically gain surprise against every opponent?no not hardly.neither does this creature because its description describes it tactics.of course the Gm chooses what the encounter setup is. he can simplt rule that rhemorazes always get surprise by always making said encounter that way and always making sure the players do not get rolls.he could do the same thing for fire giants in wheat fields too.At least, as long as the players pout up with it.Of course, if he grants fire giants auto-surprise, he might well be on the boards soon enough to fret about the bad fire giant CR.of course, once we decide that burrow 20 and tremorsense equates to auto-surprise its the umberhulks who might well be kings. A full set of confusion saves on surprise round, umber strikes or chooses to direct its gaze at one who made the first save and then we start the first round withy how many pcs confused and an umber hulk at point blank.cool.how off is its CR?</blockquote>