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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 3040136" data-attributes="member: 3192">These are some fine house rules, but I posted in the Rules Forum hoping for the right answers.I like the baseball analogy, but maybe a breakdown of questions is needed?1. Can a thrown or ranged weapon be attacked in flight?  (other than Deflect Arrows).  1A. What if the weapon is an object?  Or a creature? (a la halfling tossing)2. What if the thrown / ranged weapon is only passing through your Reach and not intended to harm you?3. Does an object in flight have an adjustment to Armor Class based on Speed?  What about the skill of the toss?  Or aerial maneuverabilty?4. Are objects passing through Reach or Threat Range capable of provoking AoO's?  What if they are tossed creatures?5. If an action is Readied, can an in flight object be interacted with?  What about defending an ally from arrows like a bodyguard does?6. Normally a Readied action cannot be ignored, but how could a batter choose whether to hit a pitch or not?  Is there a better means to adjudicate this - a partial flight path like when a jumping creature jumps farther than his movement in a round?7. What is the rule for catching a thrown object?  What if the object was not thrown at you, but crossed your Reach?8. When an object is struck in flight (or resting on the ground) what distance does it travel?  Does it matter if the object is an Object, Creature, or Attended?9. How is the path of a struck object determined?  Via a parabola or a line drive along the ground?  Or perhaps bouncing?  If a batter were attempting to hit an object into the stand height and distance comes into play.10. How does the struck object's weight or speed affect the its' travel?11. Given a Readied Action, how can a creature catch a falling object?  (i.e. move and catch being a Full Round Action)11A. Is this even possible since all falling objects land in the round they fell?  (barring DM adjudication for great distances over 6 seconds)12. Is it ever allowable to change direction while using the Run action?  For instance, sprinters on an oval track.I think that's it really.  The movement rules are likely never to come up, but the "safe while on base" rule in baseball does lead to some odd situations.And don't worry about Joe.  Not everything is about baseball.(Bring 2 characters next session)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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