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<blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 1959100" data-attributes="member: 17296">My DM does not concurr. He's of the opinion that, even if you know that there's going to be combat in the next room, you can't get &quot;combat ready&quot;, you have to be able to roll initiative and win. Hence when walking into a room where we 'knew' (or suspected strongly enough to behave as if we knew) there was a large spider hidden, we couldn't stop being flatfooted and prep for combat. Sure, we could buff all we wanted, but we couldn't make the 'combat now' music start until it jumped out to attempt to surprise us. It didn't get a surprise round because we were watching for it. But we still had to beat it's initiative and act before we were no longer flat footed.Was this a bad interpretation do you think? Or is it accurate according to the rules?&quot;&quot;I'm of the opinion that the statment is a lie. A first level character with a 10 dex and no ranks in hide walking around wearing an active ring of invisibility should be easily seen to by a level 12 character with 15 ranks in spot and an 18 wisdom. The invisible character's +20 to hide being effectively cancelled by the spotters +19 to spot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ARandomGod, post: 1959100, member: 17296"] My DM does not concurr. He's of the opinion that, even if you know that there's going to be combat in the next room, you can't get "combat ready", you have to be able to roll initiative and win. Hence when walking into a room where we 'knew' (or suspected strongly enough to behave as if we knew) there was a large spider hidden, we couldn't stop being flatfooted and prep for combat. Sure, we could buff all we wanted, but we couldn't make the 'combat now' music start until it jumped out to attempt to surprise us. It didn't get a surprise round because we were watching for it. But we still had to beat it's initiative and act before we were no longer flat footed. Was this a bad interpretation do you think? Or is it accurate according to the rules? "" I'm of the opinion that the statment is a lie. A first level character with a 10 dex and no ranks in hide walking around wearing an active ring of invisibility should be easily seen to by a level 12 character with 15 ranks in spot and an 18 wisdom. The invisible character's +20 to hide being effectively cancelled by the spotters +19 to spot. [/QUOTE]

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