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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6663894" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Sorry for the confusion. I was talking about henchmen, not animal companions, since the first line of your message mentioned them and I went off on that tangent. Obviously animal companions cannot use missile weapons, except for maybe racoons. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Being 60' away from the party isn't "isolated" though. You're still well within mutual support range, assuming that the party is built for ranged combat, which IMO should be a given for the same reasons that NPCs should prefer ranged combat: ranged combat should always be the primary strategy in 5E. Use melee combat only when ranged doesn't work for some reason. Yeah, I've seen cases where someone 60' or 100' in front of the party got into trouble (stunned by a CR 12 chain worm) and the rest of the party had to scramble to save him (after that they switched to pairs of point men instead of letting him go ahead alone). But even in that case, if the whole party had been bunched up they might have all died to the chain worm instead of some of them having a chance to act and save him. Really there's not all that much you can do for someone from 5' away that you couldn't do from 55' away, if you take 5E's flexible action economy into account. (Move + Act every round, plus bonus action Expeditious Retreat/Misty Step if necessary.)</blockquote>

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