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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radferth" data-source="post: 1290634" data-attributes="member: 5791"><p>This bit may belong in the house rules section, but when someone strikes a friend with an arrow by accident (such as trying to shoot past them and missing because of cover), I roll an attack at +10 vs. the targets flat-footed AC to determine if the arrow does any damage or just bounces off the armor.  For mass combat, I would just decide how many arrows contact each PC and make an attack at +10 (in this case I would give them dex bonus, since they would be trying to avoid them).  For normal density or arrows, I'd say each PC has a 50% chance per round of being contacted.  I'd make this less for sporatic arrow fire, and upt to 1 or 2 per round for particularly concentrated fire.  Not perfect, but simple; and it works out to the desired result of encouraging PCs to take cover without being overly deadly or requiring too many rolls.  It does make PCs with an AC of 30 or more pretty much immune to arrows in mass combat, but these guys can shrug off a lot already.</p></blockquote><p></p>