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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5829194" data-attributes="member: 1465">I believe those DMG rules were mostly intended for dungeon encounters.Either way, I tend to vary my decisions rather than strictly stick to the RAW.For instance, I normally still run one surprise round even if both sides are aware, typically because I think that exactly because both are aware then I like lessening the importance of the first round (a surprise round is partial actions only so it's less valuable than a full round). OTOH, there have even been occasions when I granted a full round rather than a normal surprise round, when the ambushed side was unaware and significantly unprepared.</blockquote>