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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigma" data-source="post: 209592" data-attributes="member: 3066">I've been running a city-based thief game for a while and the characters encountered some enforcers on their turf stirring up trouble.  In this case, it was a group consisting of 2 kobolds monk/rogues, a halfling knife-fighter, and a half-orc bruiser.  I ahd given the characters warning that the halfling street gang they were fighting with had a kobold tribe under their thumb, and that those kobolds were deadly unarmed combatants.  When they approached the group, I mentioned that the kobolds were unarmed, but moved fluidly, and seemed as if they weren't concerned about their lack of weapons.What does the first character to go do?He moves through the threat zones of both kobolds and the halfling knife-fighter, triggering attacks of opportunity all around.  He gets nailed with a stunning blow and then pummeled with sneak attacks, taking around 30 points of damage.  As if that weren't bad enough, the position he moved to left him flanked by the two kobolds, leaving him open for even more sneak attack love.  He went down to 0 hit points and the rest of the group barely managed to save his life.The real mystery is why he chose to move to a tactically inferior position and soak up attacks of opportunity against these foes.  We have yet to puzzle that out.</blockquote>