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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 3420350" data-attributes="member: 20805">Hm,... so maybe combining this aweful mess of a rule with another aweful mess of a rule you can get:  As a free action a character may choose to ignore enemies in a direction. They are considered blind to attacks from this sector. {the in-famous 'can I ignore a fighter to negate a rogues sneak attack' rule..sorry, don't have a link handy to those threads...}  The freindly fighter could then declare he was 'turning his back' on the mage, becoming effectively blinded and sightless for the purposes of that 90 degree arc...and thereby immune to the color spray. He could also not respond to anything occuring behind him that relies on sight and would not benefit from Dex if some bad guy happened to be able to attack him from that direction.  However, the fighter could also be providing soft cover to the mage's real targets and granting them a bonus to thier saves.  Since the act of ignoring someone has to be done on the fighters turn..and can't be undone until his/her next turn there has to be some level of communication. There is also the hazard of one of the BugBear Rogues rushing into the Fighters blindspot and SA'ing away...it should be obvious to the Bug Bears that the fighter is protecting his face from the Mage...Yup, not having facing rules does cause some oddities here and there, but nothing to really get wrapped up in. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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