Attacking Grappled Creatures: Who gets hit?

[apesamongus]

But that's not a typical grapple example, as explained above.

Take a bear grappling a man. That's a typical grapple example.

Take two friends and have them roll around on the floor together. Try to hit one with a broom. I see no reason you would miss with ranged but not with melee.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Take two friends and have them roll around on the floor together. Try to hit one with a broom. I see no reason you would miss with ranged but not with melee.

Take two friends, and have the lock arms in a Greco-Roman beginning hold while attempting to throw each other to the floor. Give Barry Bonds a baseball bat, and have him hit one but not the other.

I bet he doesn't miss all that often.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Take two friends and have them roll around on the floor together. Try to hit one with a broom. I see no reason you would miss with ranged but not with melee.

Grapplers are not necessarily prone. In fact, I would go as far as to say that the rules support that grapplers are not prone, since ending a grapple is less than a move action (eqivalent time of one iterative attack), you don't provoke an AoO when ending the grapple (like standing from prone) - and you end grapples on your feet.

 

[Thanee]

Grapplers quite clearly are not prone, otherwise they would also suffer a -4 to AC.

Bye
Thanee

 

[isoChron]

Even pinned characters are not prone. Don't mess grapple with prone.

 

[Ninja-to]

Even pinned characters are not prone. Don't mess grapple with prone.

Yep.