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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1436812" data-attributes="member: 259">In terms of figuring out the basic direction of the arrow, I'd be pretty generous as a DM.  If a character is moving North (for example) along a cavern wall to their right, and she gets shot with an arrow, there are a few options:-It's sticking out of her belly. In this case, she was shot by someone North of her.-It's sticking out of her left arm.  In this case, she was shot by someone to the West of her.-It's sticking out of her back.  In this case, she was shot by someone South of her.-It's sticking out of her right arm.  In this case, the wall to her right is an illusion <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Even if she falls to the floor, or spins around wildly looking for her assailant, the first arrow probably hit her when she was facing normally along the wall; an instant's thought can get her the general direction that the arrow came from. I probably wouldn't give anything more accurate than a roughly 20-degree arc, sketched out with my hands (I'd either gesture roughly on the battlemap, or I'd mime being in the same position as the wounded PC, say, "The arrow came from somewhere over there," and wave my hand vaguely in one direction).  But they'd definitely get, without any spot checks (maybe a DC 10 Int check), enough information to know the enemy's basic direction at the moment the arrow was fired. Daniel</blockquote>

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