But by certain wording in the starter rulebook, it seems that's not possible. She also successfully hid behind the horses laying on the road.Īs far as I can tell, she should, by the rules, surprise the goblins, and therefore gain advantage on her attack and use sneak attack. A halfling rogue, if playing by the stealth v perception/passive perception, successfully used stealth to sneak up ahead of the party to the area in which the book says the goblin ambush should be triggered. The starter book explicitly says 'The characters cannot surprise the goblins.' It does not say why this is so. But we still don't have a clear answer.ġ.
We've gone through other Threads on the subject. We've read through the basic rules, starter rules, PHB and DMG.
So we're introducing ourselves to 5E through Lost Mine of Phandelver, and first encounter, we ran into an issue.
