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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abraxas" data-source="post: 5012864" data-attributes="member: 1266">Thanks for the heads up on partial cover - hadn't seen that.As for the ogre example - I understand it picks one corner to determine cover from. However, in the diagram on page 194, if you select any of the top corners of the ogre's occupied  squares, lines from those corners go through the border of the wall Merisiel is by to get to the lower right corner of her square.Or do you interpret the phrase "through the border" to mean the line has to intersect the border? If it means the line intersects the border, isn't it unnecessary - because any line that intersects the border would also pass through the square that provides cover.As an aside - as far as I've been able to determine the text (and relative diagram) for determining cover for ranged attacks originally came from the Miniatures Handbook. In the MHB the full descriptive text is as follows"To determine whether a creature has cover from a ranged attack, the player who controls the attacking creature chooses a corner of a square in the attacking creature’s space. If any line traced from this point to any part of the target’s space passes through a square or border that provides cover, the target has cover.The target does not have cover if the line runs along or merely touches the edge of a wall or other square that would otherwise provide cover."The exception about a line running along the wall wasn't included in the 3.5 update nor was the contradicting diagram.</blockquote>

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