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Corone
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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...
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TSR Inc. published Dragon #102 in October 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features gully dwarves...
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3. Describe the ambusher beginning their attack, which starts combat and "surprises" those combatants who were unaware. Then everyone...
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Because that's how it works RAW. In 2024 d&d, if someone unseen makes an attack, you roll initiative, with the surprised creature...
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I mean there are a couple of options under the rules for this scenario. 1. They can take a dodge action to represent them going on high...
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The ninja isn't standing mid swing right next to the victim such that no time passes in-between surprise being determined and the...
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This! I have my eyes on using maneuvers like anticipate spell and purge magic with it, but also making opportunity attacks from people...
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Sometimes people react before they really know what's going on and/or recover from surprise almost instantly. When I was in junior high...
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So you don't use the 24 surprise rules and continue using the 14 ones. Got it. Under the 14 rules an ambusher will get one or two...
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Arrows are not firearms or lasers. A bow makes an audible sound and requires shifting position, and even after it is fired, there is...
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I am struggling to understand why you would have players roll initiative before the characters notice something to respond to.
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Turns in combat are an abstraction for ease of resolution, but within the fiction, all participants’ actions within a round are...
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I don’t understand what you’re saying. One attack with your action plus one attack as part of that action with Vex, plus one attack from...
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