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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7994038" data-attributes="member: 6795602">Reminiscing on that old Wood Elf Rogue SS a bit.We were walking down a road with forest on both side.  I always shadowed the party from the forest a bit behind them.  They got ambushed so I started doing the shoot hide move routine.  Well the DM had a surprise.  Some enemies were closer to my position and also came after me.  I stopped firing and led them on a merry goose chase just disengaging and dashing till my allies got in a position to intercept.  I guess they technically stopped me from firing... but keeping a decent number of the opposing force from doing anything nearly the whole fight was more effective than any amount of shooting I had done.  Basically what seemed like the smartest thing to do to challenge my character essentially backfired.Now I know everyone is thinking but you couldn't do that against ranged enemies.  Well here's the problem for ranged enemies.  I was an assassain so my first attack was normally at advantage regardless.  After that first attack (always made against any enemy that appeared to have ranged capabilities) I would then move+hide if possible (being a wood elf made that much easier many times).  So now I was hidden and possibly outside their short range or possibly range altogether.  Rinse and repeat.It was a very fun character.</blockquote>