Line of Sight

[vraad]

Hi.

We are haveing a little trouble with some calls on just what line of sight is and exactly what would block a line of sight. The biggest problem comes in the form of someone standing between you and a target when you are trying to use or do something that requires line of sight.

For example: If Janos is fighting an orc and his human friend, Lumbar, is standing between them. Janos can see enough past Lumbar to see that there is an orc on the other side of Lumbar, but does Janos have line of sight? What if Lumbar was a halfling instead of human? Does it make a difference if Janos is firing a crossbow as opposed to using a magic missile?

HELP!!

Thanks in advance for any and all responces.

 

[Nail]

Line of sight is blocked by cover.

Creatures do not provide (hard) cover. Creatures provide "soft cover", which does not block line of sight.

In your example, the orc gains a cover bonus (+4) against the crossbow, but gains no benefit against the Magic Missile.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Creatures do not, generally speaking, block line of sight, and they almost never block line of effect.

Exceptions do exist, of course (like, say, a piece of animated wall), but they're rare.

Two creatures can see each other if they have line of sight to each other. To determine line of sight, draw an imaginary line between your space and the target's space. If any such line is clear (not blocked), then you have line of sight to the creature (and it has line of sight to you). The line is clear if it doesn't intersect or even touch squares that block line of sight. If you can't see the target (for instance, if you're blind or the target is invisible), you can't have line of sight to it even if you could draw an unblocked line between your space and the target's.

Creatures don't specifically block line of sight.

 

[vraad]

Interesting. I had forgotten about the hard/soft cover stuff.

THANKS!!!

 

[Bagpuss]

Line of sight is blocked by cover.

I think you mean FULL COVER. Not all levels of cover.