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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotley" data-source="post: 4435539" data-attributes="member: 11520">[sblock=From the DMG]Underwater Combat Land-based creatures can have considerable difficulty when fighting in water. Water affects a creature’s Armor Class, attack rolls, damage, and movement. In some cases a creature’s opponents may get a bonus on attacks. The effects are summarized in the accompanying table. They apply whenever a characteris swimming, walking in chestdeep water, or walking along the bottom. Ranged Attacks Underwater: Thrown weapons are ineffective underwater, even when launched from land. Attacks with other ranged weapons take a –2penalty on attack rolls for every 5 feet of water they pass through, in addition to the normal penalties for range. Attacks from Land: Characters swimming, floating, or treading water on the surface, or wading in water at least chest deep, have improved cover (+8 bonus to AC, +4 bonus on Reflex saves) from opponents on land. Landboundopponents who have freedom of movement effects ignore this cover when making melee attacks against targets in the water. A completely submerged creature has total cover against opponents on land unless those opponents have freedom of movement effects. Magical effects are unaffected except for those that require attack rolls (which are treated like any other effects) and fire effects. Fire: Nonmagical fire (including alchemist’s fire) does not burn underwater. Spells or spell-like effects with the fire descriptor are ineffective underwater unless the caster makes a Spellcraft check (DC 20 + spell level). If the check succeeds, the spell creates a bubble of steam instead of its usual fiery effect, but otherwise the spell works as described. A supernatural fire effectis ineffective underwater unless its description states otherwise. The surface of a body of water blocks line of effect for any fire spell. If the caster has made a Spellcraft check to make the fire spell usable underwater, the surface still blocks the spell’s line of effect. For example, a fireball cast underwater cannot be targeted at creatures above the surface.[/sblock]OOC: I hope that will help you choose your actions. I read this as saying magic missile will work (no attack roll) while Eldritch Blast will not (since you have to roll to hit, the enemy is considered to have total cover, which precludes attack.) Feel free to correct my reading of the rules if you see it differently.</blockquote>

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