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<blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5885597" data-attributes="member: 57948">Don't know about you, but if I ask my DM, while standing still in the middle of a Plain &quot;can I have a cover bonus?&quot;, his answer will be no. &nbsp;Some people would argue that you *need* to use the shield to get some bonus from it. But whatever, yes, it might be represented as full defensive action. That's like +4 AC in most D&amp;D editions, I think. They are still *impervious* to it. Not only they don't get damaged... they aren't scared about it at all either. Same goes with Braveheart similar scene. And that is about what this debate is going around for a couple of pages already. That some people find &quot;unbelieveable&quot; that a group of high level fighters fo against 12+ archers /crossbowmen and do not surrender, because they would be &quot;metagaming&quot;. Leonidas is not metagaming. He is just plain badass. He is brave, impervious. He *knows* for sure that he is heads and shoulders above those self-called inmortals. He is not going to just give up and surrender only because the DM Dario thinks it's cool, and he is for sure not going to let a few thousands arrows to intimidate him. So he stands still there, and just laugh at the thousand arrows becouse he has very high AC, and a ton of HP&nbsp;No, but they have armor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />. Of the magically enhanced kind. Some of them have shield spells, or magic vestments. Others are able to evade fireballs and have uncanny dodge abilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="triqui, post: 5885597, member: 57948"] Don't know about you, but if I ask my DM, while standing still in the middle of a Plain "can I have a cover bonus?", his answer will be no. Some people would argue that you *need* to use the shield to get some bonus from it. But whatever, yes, it might be represented as full defensive action. That's like +4 AC in most D&D editions, I think. They are still *impervious* to it. Not only they don't get damaged... they aren't scared about it at all either. Same goes with Braveheart similar scene. And that is about what this debate is going around for a couple of pages already. That some people find "unbelieveable" that a group of high level fighters fo against 12+ archers /crossbowmen and do not surrender, because they would be "metagaming". Leonidas is not metagaming. He is just plain badass. He is brave, impervious. He *knows* for sure that he is heads and shoulders above those self-called inmortals. He is not going to just give up and surrender only because the DM Dario thinks it's cool, and he is for sure not going to let a few thousands arrows to intimidate him. So he stands still there, and just laugh at the thousand arrows becouse he has very high AC, and a ton of HP No, but they have armor :P. Of the magically enhanced kind. Some of them have shield spells, or magic vestments. Others are able to evade fireballs and have uncanny dodge abilities. [/QUOTE]

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