When a player referees to a surprise round, it’s a reference to the first round of combat if any character is surprised for that round. The ‘surprise round’ concept may be a relic of past editions or other TTRPG systems, but it may also be an organic effort of the D&D community to understand 5e’s surprise rules. Let’s get this out of the way: there is no such thing as a ‘surprise round’ in D&D 5e. ![]() That’s really all that Surprise means in D&D 5e, though peripheral rules complicate things. Technically no, but you can think of it as a condition in the first round of combat that goes away after a creature cannot act on its first turn. Surprise does not directly allow advantage on an attack, but being unseen does. ![]() ![]() Being unseen allows an attacker to attack with advantage. By the rules, 5e Surprise is based on an attacker being unseen and a target being unsuspecting.
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