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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MwaO" data-source="post: 7036428" data-attributes="member: 12749">All the level 15 Soldiers printed in rule books - avoiding Dungeon+Adventures - haven't looked specifically at other levels, trying to keep the # of listed creatures manageable <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=":)" />Elder Electric Eel - fly+reach 3Carrion Tribe Blessed Champion - none, but Eberron Campaign book.Warlock Knight Vindicator - Reach 2+shift 4 if marked target moves awayCrag Roper - reach 10Legathus Dython - ranged attack, close blastScroll Mummy - reach 2+other optionsRed Salad Juggernaut - reach 3Oristus - teleportationSquamous Splitter - reach 2Adult Red Dragon - reach 2Mooncalf Rogue - reach 6Yagnodemon - reach 3Grayspawn Fleshtearer reach 2Direhelm - nope, Forgotten Realms Campaign GuideHell Knight - reach 2Derro Ironguard - nope, MM3Red Slaad(Blood Salad) - reach 2Rakhasa Warrior - encounter invisibility+shift speedCarrion Crawler - reach 3Fear Moth - fly+close blast stun+aura 2 that suggests there's a mistake in compendium about its basic attackWatchful Ghost - fly+phasingQuom Fanatic - CrossbowEbony Knight - pull target as minor action if immobilized, but otherwise no.Nikolai - fly 1/encounterOkay, so, out of all level 15 soldiers(24 of them):3 have zero options. 1 in 8. Only 1 of which is in a Monster Manual-type book.More than half have at least reach 2.62% have some sort of basically at-will option to bypass Polearm Gamble.75% have at least an automatic encounter option to bypass Polearm Gamble83% if not already adjacent to the Dwarf, have either some way of getting around him to go after other targets - Watchful Ghost as an example can fly into the floor and come out adjacent to the Dwarf.Here's another way of looking at it - out of all 21 soldiers not from an early campaign guide, only 1 doesn't have any kind of options other than trying to avoid the Dwarf. That's it. Level 15 Soldiers might be atypical - that's the only level/creature I looked at, but that's the kind of problem I'm referring to as being problematic with Polearm Gamble.It does influence decisions - it might be better to be next to the Dwarf so the Dwarf can't move around them, but that's usually difficult anyway because most of them are some sort of large size and hard to move around.</blockquote>

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