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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 1900135" data-attributes="member: 545">From a mechanical POV, the only question is whom do you threaten and whom do you not threaten.&nbsp; This enemy/ally thing is just a sloppy means of handling something that is rarely worth slowing the game down to handle in an methodical and explicit manner.There are unambiguously legit reasons why I may want to threaten an ally.&nbsp; Frex, he is under a magical compulsion and I want to trip him before he runs off somewhere where he might come to harm.&nbsp; Can I not trip my friend as he runs past?&nbsp; If you say &quot;no&quot; we are really off the deep end, and maybe we should all hand our character sheets over to the DM because we clearly cannot trusted to play our PCs correctly.Why would it be different for a summoned badger?BTW, a BBEG may well choose to threaten all his nearby minions all the time.&nbsp; For sound reasons.&nbsp; If he does not like what his minion is doing, he may kill the miscreant right then and there!&nbsp; This does have the downside that his minions would get flanked very easily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 1900135, member: 545"] From a mechanical POV, the only question is whom do you threaten and whom do you not threaten. This enemy/ally thing is just a sloppy means of handling something that is rarely worth slowing the game down to handle in an methodical and explicit manner. There are unambiguously legit reasons why I may want to threaten an ally. Frex, he is under a magical compulsion and I want to trip him before he runs off somewhere where he might come to harm. Can I not trip my friend as he runs past? If you say "no" we are really off the deep end, and maybe we should all hand our character sheets over to the DM because we clearly cannot trusted to play our PCs correctly. Why would it be different for a summoned badger? BTW, a BBEG may well choose to threaten all his nearby minions all the time. For sound reasons. If he does not like what his minion is doing, he may kill the miscreant right then and there! This does have the downside that his minions would get flanked very easily. [/QUOTE]

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