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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eyelessgame" data-source="post: 3365121" data-attributes="member: 49177">I'm reasonably fluent at this point with the grapple rules. But I just attacked a low-level party with stirges and I don't think the stirge's attach power is written very clearly. In the stat block stirges have a grapple of "-11 / +1 when attached".The problem was that we couldn't envision how a stirge really counts as grappling in all the ways grappling works.  The sorcerer, with a stirge attached, couldn't cast a magic missile on it, because he was grappled. He couldn't take a move action to walk over to the cleric without first winning a grapple check, which he made at a disadvantage compared with this cat-sized creature that was attached and draining his blood.I know I can houserule it. I just wanted to know if I'm missing something. Perhaps the +12 ought to be "only to resist being removed", instead of being a bonus to all grapple checks while being attached. Or perhaps the special +12 should come with a proviso "The stirge's grapple check is at +12, but the target does not count as being grappled, in the same way that a creature may choose to roll grapple checks at -20 to grapple without being grappled."Does that make sense to others? Am I misreading it to start with?</blockquote>