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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6257204" data-attributes="member: 6669384">The Penetrating Shot feat has a nice, cinematic feel about it, doesn't it?  The hero with his mighty composite longbow takes careful aim, fires, and the shot hits with such force that it tears through the first target and hits a second one.  Good imagery.  (I think they call that a Quigley, after the trick shot in the movie Quigley Down Under)Now compare that to the way the rules handle Line effects.  An AOE effect - Line affects targets in every square the line touches.Consider a straight line of squares on the battle map.  Start at the left corner of one, count down the right distance, and mark the end at the right corner of the far end.  Do that and your affect runs along a five foot wide swath.  I'm an archer (not too good) in real life, and that's like a seven lane freeway for an arrow, to be able to hit anything/everything along that route.Now let's try again:  Start at a left side corner of the starting square, count down the correct number of spaces, then mark the other end at the same left side of the destination square.The arrow's path now runs right along the dividing line between those rows, which means it touches squares on both sides of the line.  Your Line AoE is now ten feet wide.If the five foot path is a seven lane freeway, the ten foot wide one has to be a slalom course.  We've left high cinema and proceeded to Looney Toons, with the shot swinging and swooping all over the room.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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