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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 6833672" data-attributes="member: 31754">I'm sure you don't want to be stabbed by the ruffian either, but you don't get a choice. You are fighting people that intend you harm, they are not going to worry about what you want. This is a different relationship than with your allies.You are not giving the thief the ability to Sneak Attack. That is his own skill. You aren't giving him anything, the thief is taking advantage you fighting the same opponent. Here is a dictionary definition of agency that I think applies: the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.If your character just takes damage, no, you haven't lost agency. If your character is killed you can not act or exert power with that character. Sounds like the loss of agency to me. But it is okay to lose agency in combat. Each side is trying to harm the other. That's the whole point of combat.Anyone can help anyone else. It's called the Help action. It's just that the rogue is better at taking advantage of fighting with others.Sneak Attack isn't something that anyone else gives the rogue, it is something the rogue is capable of because he trained himself to be good at that style of fighting.</blockquote>