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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belphanior" data-source="post: 1039504" data-attributes="member: 12401">You seem to link facing to hit locations. May I ask why? All facing means (to me at least) is the direction you look at. Or rather, the direction your entire body "points" at.By giving a horse a 5x10 space, one can flank it in such a manner that it could not logically attack you. But it does. Somehow. Even though I'm sure its legs can not bend that way.By giving it a 10x10 space, one assumes that it has enough room to turn any way it pleases in order to attack. We eliminate the half-abstraction, and gain simplicity and common sense in return.What are you talking about? A major gripe of mine was that big creatures, somehow, could not squeeze themselves into smaller spaces. It should be darn obvious that they can.All the squeezing rule does is tell us how that works. I see no reason to hold the system at fault for telling us how stuff works.You are putting words into my mouth now. Don't.I mean that I have trouble imagining a horse racing with a chariot behind it, and then rearing up to kick some orc in the face. The weight of the chariot dragging behind should prevent it from fighting efficiently, IMO.How much cover do you think humans should get behind a 2.5' pillar? If you stand the right way, even a 1' pillar should suffice for most people to get full cover.This is impossible even in 3.0 however.If a horse stands behind a 5' pillar you need only take a step to the side (not a 5' step, you can stay in the same square) to see its rear. Half cover. Just like the rules say.If an ogre stands behind a 5' pillar it gets even easier (look at the picture in the PHB to see why).</blockquote>

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