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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 480396" data-attributes="member: 103">Hey Souljourner,I wish people would concede when they are wrong more often - I obviously overlooked the fact that when an archer fires into melee its not just the -4 penalty they have to worry about but the cover that their friends provide to the enemy.That happens ALL of the time.  I simply have not played an archer yet and so had not had an opportunity to see it take affect often - my one character who used missle weapons, a ranger, always used them while scouting and typically dropped them in favor of melee weapons ASAP - not to mention, whenever an opponent had cover he always managed to roll a critical (yeah, a natural 20 - I am not kidding either - every single time - it was uncanny.  I think my DM may have actually started having the enemies jump from behind cover into the open to prevent the auto hits when there was only an arrow slit of space to hit them with <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)But yes, I have completely changed my opinion of the feat - I was just flat out wrong before.</blockquote>