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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7626889" data-attributes="member: 19857">I like how 13th Age solved this problem, which was that if you're firing into melee and you roll a 1, you have to reroll the attack against your ally in the melee instead.&nbsp; If there are multiple allies, it's GM's choice (which I resolve as a random roll).&nbsp; There's a general feat you can take that negates this chance.&nbsp; This fits well with the more theater of the mind nature of 13th age ranges as well as the more &quot;heroic&quot; expectations of the PCs in the game where you should be able to fire into melee and not accidentally hit your allies.For D&amp;D I generally follow the same rule these days if we're playing theater of the mind.&nbsp; If we're using minis on a grid we look at line of sight to decide if there's a clear shot or if the roll is at disadvantage or if you're just going to hit your ally so maneuver for a better shot.&nbsp; The only way you can hit your ally by accident is if you ignore me telling you that &quot;you're just going to hit your ally if you don't maneuver for a better shot&quot;, which doesn't happen with my players <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7626889, member: 19857"] I like how 13th Age solved this problem, which was that if you're firing into melee and you roll a 1, you have to reroll the attack against your ally in the melee instead. If there are multiple allies, it's GM's choice (which I resolve as a random roll). There's a general feat you can take that negates this chance. This fits well with the more theater of the mind nature of 13th age ranges as well as the more "heroic" expectations of the PCs in the game where you should be able to fire into melee and not accidentally hit your allies. For D&D I generally follow the same rule these days if we're playing theater of the mind. If we're using minis on a grid we look at line of sight to decide if there's a clear shot or if the roll is at disadvantage or if you're just going to hit your ally so maneuver for a better shot. The only way you can hit your ally by accident is if you ignore me telling you that "you're just going to hit your ally if you don't maneuver for a better shot", which doesn't happen with my players :) [/QUOTE]

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