Combat Status Any figure involved in combat falls into one of three categories: clear, threatened, or grappled. This represents the immediacy of an enemy threat and influences what actions the character can choose for that combat round. A character’s options are extremely limited when he is caught in an owlbear’s hug.

In addition to governing the character’s choice of combat actions for the round, threatening is also important because it determines who is subject to what are known as attacks of opportunity (see below).

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