Surprised 
Notes
Can be mitigated with the feat Alert or the consumable Elixir of Vigilance.
Sources of Surprised
No results
Surprised
is a special condition that can affect creatures during the first round of combat. When one side of a combat encounter is unaware of the other side, they may be Surprised. A Surprised creature cannot take any Actions or Reactions for one combat round. Characters with the Alert feat, the Feral Instinct feature or under the effects of certain items (like the 
Elixir of Vigilance) cannot be Surprised.
Certain combat encounters, especially ones that occur after an in-game cutscene, are set to always the party. These can usually be countered by utilizing conditions such as 
or hiding in heavily obscured areas with spells such as 
before triggering them.
List of Surprise encounters
- Sneaking into the Overgrown Ruins Refectory will leave Andorn .
- Interacting with certain caskets in the cave inside the Apothecary's Cellar will cause an Agile Guardian to burst out and the party.
- Attacking the bloated hyenas along the Risen Road will leave them .
- Magma Mephits will the party if they approach the mithral vein closest to the Adamantine Forge.
- All Mimic combat encounters will always the party when interacting with them in their disguised form. Attacking them from range will start the battle without being surprised.
- In the Underdark, approaching the Petrified Battlefield will initiate combat with a Spectator, triggering a cutscene which leaves the party .
- Approaching the Underdark Beach will trigger a conversation with a Duergar. If attacked immediately, the whole Duergar party will be left . If Gekh Coal is called and he turns hostile, the player's party will be instead.
- At the end of "Dribbles'" performance at the Circus of the Last Days, the party will be left unless the ambush is observed through passive Perception checks, in which case the ambushers will be instead.