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Player uses surroundings to their advantage to overwhelmingly succeed.
More at the top of the hour.

But seriously, this is all fine and dandy, but what about those scenarios where there isn't high ground?
You could Misty Step yourself silly and it's not going to stop anything from strolling right up to your marshmallow Wizard.
Classes like Fighters who don't have a lot of ranged options won't see this the same way that you are.
This is what's called "balance."


I don't want to fall to bits 'cos of excess existential thought.