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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4589174" data-attributes="member: 19675">Your DM may make that assumption, but not the game (at least, not up to 3Ed, AFAIK).  I have no qualms about throwing opponents at a party from any direction.And I know I'm not alone.  Just a couple of years ago, our low-level party was attacked by a small group of harpies.  The druid just happened to luck out and catch them in an Entangle- his best spell- as they dove on us, and we proceeded to start pelting them.(In a black comedic twist, our attack and damage rolls were so bad, we exhausted the party supply of arrows & bolts, so the Druid had to cast Entangle again while we pelted them to death with stones.  It was so bad, one PC even went so far as to cut an arrow out of a harpy to re-use it...) Oddly enough, I did this in a RBDM's homebrewed dungeon, when he threw a Huge Ancient Red Dragon at the party in room #1...for a 1st level party.  It was asleep, but I figured this was merely a portent of things to come, so I had my Paladin hustle up the pile 'o' gold, leap astride its neck, and make a 2-handed stab into its left eye and used its hilt like the rope on a bucking brahma bull.  Holding on with the left hand, I used the right hand to stab away with my dagger.(Yep, should have died.  Didn't.  It was really, really bad- a Deus Ex Machina's worth of dwarven warriors appeared to help out, then the rest of the party joined in.)</blockquote>