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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7289151" data-attributes="member: 1465">Line of Sight is the same in both directions, and total cover is pretty much a lack of line of sight. If there's a clear path from the obstacle edge to the target, to attack it you need to get into that clear path i.e. line of sight, and as soon as you do, the target has line of sight to you. That's if you play within the normal level of &quot;simulation&quot; covered by the core rules, where you don't need to specify which parts of a creature occupy each specific portion or square of its space; if you go beyond this level, you may have cases when a large creature (especially a long one) doesn't have LOS from his eyes to any part of you while you may have LOS from your eyes to a non-eyes part of it (e.g. the tail), but this is clearly beyond that normal level of detail of the core rules.Partial cover (half or three-quarter) is different. That one indeed doesn't work the same in both directions (see examples in the DMG).By the way, three-quarter cover is pretty much the rule meant to cover (sic) the case of someone leaning past the edge of a wall to shoot, which intuitively is quite on par (at least not better) than shooting from an arrow slit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7289151, member: 1465"] Line of Sight is the same in both directions, and total cover is pretty much a lack of line of sight. If there's a clear path from the obstacle edge to the target, to attack it you need to get into that clear path i.e. line of sight, and as soon as you do, the target has line of sight to you. That's if you play within the normal level of "simulation" covered by the core rules, where you don't need to specify which parts of a creature occupy each specific portion or square of its space; if you go beyond this level, you may have cases when a large creature (especially a long one) doesn't have LOS from his eyes to any part of you while you may have LOS from your eyes to a non-eyes part of it (e.g. the tail), but this is clearly beyond that normal level of detail of the core rules. Partial cover (half or three-quarter) is different. That one indeed doesn't work the same in both directions (see examples in the DMG). By the way, three-quarter cover is pretty much the rule meant to cover (sic) the case of someone leaning past the edge of a wall to shoot, which intuitively is quite on par (at least not better) than shooting from an arrow slit. [/QUOTE]

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