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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1334732" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think that the cover penalty (actually it's a cover bonus to AC of the target) applies at any time in your situation. The -4 penalty for firing into melee actually applies only after one of the two - the target or a friend of yours - is threatening the other (if none has Combat Reflexes, this means that if you shoot first in the first round, you avoid the -4 because none is already threatening the other):(You may want to check the rest of the description for extra notes.)It could be important that cover gives a cover bonus to AC instead of a penalty on attack because in 3.5 penalties are untyped and stack, while the cover bonus from more that one obstacle don't stack. Wait, now that I think it's not a cover bonus anymore but it's untyped so it may stack as well...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I think you better make a DM's call. Two identical objects in line shouldn't increase cover, but if they are not in line they probably do. Soft cover (from creatures) may have a cumulative effect but I wouldn't bother too much trying to be precise...</blockquote>