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These doors are only open as far as the DM allows. To my mind, the issue at hand is action economy and resource management; specifically, the limited number of actions you can take on your turn. The issue is NOT, making sense of the "real world" and then translating that into game terms...

Excellent discussion. I don’t think allowing players to take combat actions out-side of combat is a “best practice” and here is why: Players want to do this so they don’t have to burn an action in combat. Once you start allowing this sort of thing, it opens the door to lots of other...

Ditto. Point to KarinsDad. Cover and Stealth rules suck.

I couldn't disagree more... the order of the rules: Area Attacks and Close Attacks (specific) Reach (specific) Creatures and Cover (specific) Determining Cover (general) specifically governs every situation in which creatures provide cover at all (superior cover is just excessive for reasons...

This rule... Creatures and Cover: When you make a ranged attack against an enemy and other enemies are in the way, your target has cover. Your allies never grant cover to your enemies, and neither allies nor enemies give cover against melee, close, or area attacks. ...specifically governs the...

this is your house rule... right? another house rule... allies don't normally provide cover against melee attacks and the rules that specifically govern reach attacks says only terrain provides it what? your allies in combat are not a phalanx... they are likely to be moving a lot within...

This is the entire entry for Cover from the Compendium: Cover (-2 Penalty to Attack Rolls): The target is around a corner or protected by terrain. For example, the target might be in the same square as a small tree, obscured by a small pillar or a large piece of furniture, or behind a low wall...

Additionally, to answer your original question: "How do you gain superior cover to hide in combat?" Answer: Use terrain.

The rules I quoted specifically exclude your allies from counting as objects that block lines for determining cover except when your enemy makes a ranged attack against you. You are reading that this means your allies provide cover against your enemies in other situations... which the...

Cover (-2 Penalty to Attack Rolls): The target is around a corner or protected by terrain. For example, the target might be in the same square as a small tree, obscured by a small pillar or a large piece of furniture, or behind a low wall. Superior Cover (-5 Penalty to Attack Rolls): The target...

It seems very powerful, initially i thought to ban this race... but when you really look at the rest of the racial abilities, the shifters are seriously lacking compared to other races... I'll also add I have a fighter longtooth shifter in my game who uses a bloodfury weapon (encounter, minor...

I also play a cleric/invoker (half-elf) with this power... but this character is my NPC (I am the DM)... I find this power is a great way to tip the balance of encounters (without resorting to fudging the numbers) in the PC's favor when they start to go horribly wrong (and they do)... in my...

this isn't an apples to apples comparison... the taclord leads in melee by giving out extra attacks to his allies AND buffing hitroll/damage, not by being a glory hog as you say. the twin strike/sure strike argument applies here, getting to hitroll more often trumps getting to hitroll with a...

My point really wasn't so much about what the rules do and do not allow... more about what works at my gaming table... perhaps I chimed in at the wrong time. In response: If I said leaders weren't intended to use their healing powers during a short rest, I misspoke. I meant to say leaders...

I think the way to fix this problem is not to let the PCs stack multiple short rests back to back. I used to allow this when my party only included a cleric b/c I didn't really see any reason not to allow it. However, my party now includes a bard. the bards "song of rest" is specifically...

This seems like a fine system if it works for your group, but to my mind, this mechanic would add another layer of time-sucking to an already bogged down combat system (and my players have fun with the meta-game): 1) DM has to take time out to tell the player what they found out from the roll...

In my opinion the best way to "hide in plain sight" is to take the multiclass warlock feat to get eyebite or use half-elf dilettante to get it

Just to bring the conversation back to the OP... Aegis of Shielding triggers off of a hit, not an attack.

You actually get an Opportunity Action on EACH OTHER combatants turn, meaning that if you had threatening reach, you WOULD get to make the OA if the creature in question moved adjacent rather than shifting even if you didn't have it marked(dumb idea on the creatures part). But you could ALSO...

if this was not what they intended, why isn't it a daily utility?