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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7603780" data-attributes="member: 7006">I personally wouldn't consider a trench to be three-quarters cover, only half.To get three-quarters cover you need to be behind things like arrow-slits-- where almost your entire body can remain covered at all times while you fire out from behind it.  Being in a trench is the same as being behind a short wall-- your entire upper body becomes uncovered when you poke your head and arms up to fire from behind it so only half your body is behind cover.  That's only a +2 bonus to me, not the full +5.So I personally wouldn't feel the need to increase the creature's CR, because for the most part having half-cover available almost all the time is what is always happening anyways.  Most ranged combatants can almost always find half-cover (behind rocks, leaning out from behind trees, behind doorways etc.), so your Mold Earth creature is not gaining anything all that monumental that it wouldn't already be able to usually get.  At least, based upon how my games tend to run.</blockquote>