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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 2902867" data-attributes="member: 2525">My understanding is that the +4 adjustment is the adjustment to AC for hitting one of the people fighting in that melee, not hitting a target well behind them and whose view they are blocking.I just don't see any evidence in the spell description itself that indicates it's a bead that curves and weaves around objects that are greater in size than an arrow slit.  I think you have taken the single example the offerred and draw greater conclusions from it than intended.  The spell says if it impacts on a material body, it detonates.  You use the normal rules for seeing if a ranged object impacts on a material body accidentally.  Unless the spell description says you don't have to use those rules because it magically weaves around non-small barriers, we are stuck with the normal rules.  And the normal rules say that cover, even people in the way, can be struck with ranged moving objects.And I think that is a big reason why some people think magic missle is not overpowered - because they have inadvertedly houseruled fireball to magically weave around barriers and strike tagets in ways that let them more easily strike NPCs while leaving PCs unscathed.</blockquote>