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=== Ally === | === Ally === | ||
: A member of your party, including yourself (unless specifically excluded), or a friendly NPC that is assisting you in a battle. Bystander NPC's who are not hostile, but are also not actively helping, are not considered allies. | : A member of your party, including yourself (unless specifically excluded), or a friendly NPC that is assisting you in a battle. Bystander NPC's who are not hostile, but are also not actively helping, are not considered allies. | ||
=== Ambush === | |||
:* '''AKA:''' Ambush Roll, [[Surprise]], Surprise Roll, Surprise Round, 'UH OH!' | |||
: An Ambush is when one side of a [[Combat]] gets the drop on the other side. When the GM adjudicates that there is a chance for an ambush, on one side or the other, the parties involved make an Ambush roll at the same time as they are making their initiative rolls, and before the combat as presented to the players, either on the table top, or in the theatre of the mind. The winning side of an Ambush roll gets to set up the upcoming fight, in as unfair a fashion as the GM will allow. GM's are encouraged to be fair but brutal. | |||
Getting Ambushed sucks, but it sure is interesting! | |||
=== Armor Class === | === Armor Class === | ||
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: Unlike spells and spell-like abilities, Supernatural abilities do not provoke attacks of opportunity from threatening creatures when activated, and they are not subject to spell resistance. However, Supernatural abilities cannot be activated or maintained in areas lacking magic, such as an [[Antimagic Field (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)]]. In such an area, the ability immediately ends, and is not able to be reactivated until the creature leaves the non-magical area, or the effect preventing magic is ended. | : Unlike spells and spell-like abilities, Supernatural abilities do not provoke attacks of opportunity from threatening creatures when activated, and they are not subject to spell resistance. However, Supernatural abilities cannot be activated or maintained in areas lacking magic, such as an [[Antimagic Field (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)]]. In such an area, the ability immediately ends, and is not able to be reactivated until the creature leaves the non-magical area, or the effect preventing magic is ended. | ||
=== [[Surprise]] === | |||
:* '''AKA:''' Ambush Roll, Ambush, Surprise Roll, Surprise Round, 'UH OH!' | |||
=== [[Swift Action]] === | === [[Swift Action]] === | ||