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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4897284" data-attributes="member: 82106">This is just plain old good tactics. There are many possible ways around it of course. One simple way is to stand up and ready an attack with the trigger being "when I'm adjacent to X" where X is the guy you want to hit but can't. Then your Bard, Invoker, Warlord, etc buddy shifts you into position and your attack triggers. It does cost you potentially a bit due to your shift in the initiative order, but its a solution that works for most parties.If you really want to both leverage this tactic yourself and avoid its consequences then reach weapons are the way to go. A good polearm build fighter can really do some nice stuff with this, and it is practically the bread and butter of any dragonborn that has Draconic Arrogance (or other knockdown builds). Overall its more advantageous to the PCs than to monsters. There are plenty of ways to knock down a monster, but few monsters can do the same in return. There are of course many monsters with minor action shifts and such that can negate it too. In any case, I wouldn't try to "fix" it because it is just something that makes tactics a bit more interesting.</blockquote>