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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7510077" data-attributes="member: 6919838">RE this: "But for some odd reason... the 'Barkskin' character is the only one for whom that doesn't happen. Not a single attack ever seems to hit the wall or the shield... they all by complete coincidence manage to get past the wall and the shield, and then get blocked ONLY by the "barkskin armor" on the person. Why? How is it that any other person who gets bombarded by arrows will have the shield and the wall block any number of them... but the naked Barkskinned person doesn't? "there is nothing at all saying the barkskin creature doesn't have arrows blocked by the wall or the shield. there is nothing stopping a Gm from narrating the barkskin character getting missed and the arrow hitting the wall. Just like there is nothing preventing a character in armor from being "missed" by an arrow as opposed to it being stopped by his armor.just like there is nothing stopping the arrow from being a wild shot cause by a slip in the caster's footing and the wet deck - even though the Gm did not assess a penalty for the wet deck.just because an actual measurable penalty to the roll/DC assessed before thr roll for a scenery effect by no means prevents that scenery effect from being part of the narration of the outcome. This is shown in game after game in play every day.barkskin and its "cover problem" is no different.a GM wanting to add that narrative limitation to how he runs barkskin is one that seems to be trying to portray it as negatively as possible - which points to the Gm as the source of that particular problem in play.</blockquote>

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