It’s been a thunder spell from the druid both times. I gave her owl stats but flavored her as a very small dragon who has a fondness for polyhedral gems. Yep, she’s a dice dragon. I guess that makes my familiar my self-insert character.

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    This is the other reason I chose owl, fly-by is very convenient for not getting offed. (or would be if she ever lived long enough to try it.)

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      Fly-By helps against opportunity attacks, but not against readied attacks.

      Which, to me, is fair, because readying attacks requires the foe to sacrifice their main action and reaction.

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        If I’ve got intelligent enemies with ranged attacks they’re absolutely going for that thing once it makes its utility known. Though it’s not like they generally do much with their reactions anyway.

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          A smart player will try to keep the owl out of LoS during most of the round, so sacrificing action + reaction for “I attack it once it comes out of cover” is the best most NPCs can do.