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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1803034" data-attributes="member: 1656">Read it again.&nbsp; You yourself said that that line only applies to whether or not you receive the +2 bonus.When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by a character or creature friendly to you on the opponent’s opposite border or opposite corner.When in doubt about whether two friendly characters flank an opponent in the middle, trace an imaginary line between the two friendly characters’ centers. If the line passes through opposite borders of the opponent’s space (including corners of those borders), then the opponent is flanked.You said that you can sneak attack with the wand of acid splash, because &quot;when making a melee attack&quot; only determines whether you get the +2 bonus.&nbsp; But if that's true, then &quot;if your opponent is threatened by a character&quot; also only determines whether you get the +2 bonus.We trace an imaginary line between me and the dwarf, and it passes through the opponent's space.&nbsp; Either that means the two friendly characters flank the opponent... or we must also satisfy the conditions in the previous paragraph (the dwarf threatens, and I am making a melee attack).You can't claim that one condition from that sentence applies to the bonus only, but the other applies to flanking in general.&nbsp; Both or neither.-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 1803034, member: 1656"] Read it again. You yourself said that that line only applies to whether or not you receive the +2 bonus. [i]When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by a character or creature friendly to you on the opponent’s opposite border or opposite corner. When in doubt about whether two friendly characters flank an opponent in the middle, trace an imaginary line between the two friendly characters’ centers. If the line passes through opposite borders of the opponent’s space (including corners of those borders), then the opponent is flanked.[/i] You said that you can sneak attack with the wand of acid splash, because "when making a melee attack" only determines whether you get the +2 bonus. But if that's true, then "if your opponent is threatened by a character" [i]also[/i] only determines whether you get the +2 bonus. We trace an imaginary line between me and the dwarf, and it passes through the opponent's space. Either that means the two friendly characters flank the opponent... [i]or[/i] we must also satisfy the conditions in the previous paragraph (the dwarf threatens, [i]and I am making a melee attack[/i]). You can't claim that one condition from that sentence applies to the bonus only, but the other applies to flanking in general. Both or neither. -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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