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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5570469" data-attributes="member: 94022"><p>I do keep track of it (as well as any minor actions that might otherwise be available) mainly because that's the price the monster pays for making sure he gets CA for his attack.  I'd make the PCs pay the same price if they were to try it too.  As a practical matter though, I consider this to be something of a more "advanced" battle technique, and not something that your dumber monsters would think of.  A mindless zombie for instance is generally just gonna to try to rip apart whatever is in front of it.  Even a lot of your smarter animals or lower int level humanoids (goblins, orcs, etc.) are likely not to wait to make their attack (exceptions apply of course).  If I am at all unsure as to whether or not the monster would be smart (or composed) enough to think of it, I'll have it make an Int or Wisdom check (same as I often do with marked critters).  But yeah, for the most part it comes up rarely.  Even when I have say 5 goblins acting at the same time, I'm likely to not give the first one CA if they all have to move into position.  Though if one of those 5 is already engaged in melee it will be the last to act of the 5 so as to allow as many of the others to get CA as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>