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5e, Heal Thyself! Is Healing Too Weak in D&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8620298" data-attributes="member: 7032025"><p>It's why [USER=6855114]@Helldritch[/USER] is using grapple rather than the help action, it lasts as long as the creature remains grappled.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cover is not counted in 5e as in 4e where basically only terrain counted (as per its description), and it's not about counting lines from corners where enemies are suddenly included. 5e recognises that it's way more circumstantial than that, and lets the DM decide based on this: "A target has half cover if an obstacle blocks at least half of its body. The obstacle might be a low wall, a large piece of furniture, a narrow tree trunk, or a creature, whether that creature is an enemy or a friend."</p><p></p><p>The scenario about the 8 gnolls assumes that they are all around the target, so whether grappling or not, it's pretty clear that anyone firing at the target would have at least one gnoll in the way, which would give cover.</p><p></p><p>Now, if the target was an ogre, it might be more debatable, and also debatable if the target was a carrion crawler (still large, but lower to the ground, etc.). The important point is that the DM decides based on circumstances, and that grappling might be one of these circumstances, or it might not, for example if the grapplers are on the opposite side of the shooter, and there is no gnoll on that side, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8620298, member: 7032025"] It's why [USER=6855114]@Helldritch[/USER] is using grapple rather than the help action, it lasts as long as the creature remains grappled. Cover is not counted in 5e as in 4e where basically only terrain counted (as per its description), and it's not about counting lines from corners where enemies are suddenly included. 5e recognises that it's way more circumstantial than that, and lets the DM decide based on this: "A target has half cover if an obstacle blocks at least half of its body. The obstacle might be a low wall, a large piece of furniture, a narrow tree trunk, or a creature, whether that creature is an enemy or a friend." The scenario about the 8 gnolls assumes that they are all around the target, so whether grappling or not, it's pretty clear that anyone firing at the target would have at least one gnoll in the way, which would give cover. Now, if the target was an ogre, it might be more debatable, and also debatable if the target was a carrion crawler (still large, but lower to the ground, etc.). The important point is that the DM decides based on circumstances, and that grappling might be one of these circumstances, or it might not, for example if the grapplers are on the opposite side of the shooter, and there is no gnoll on that side, etc. [/QUOTE]
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