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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6516460" data-attributes="member: 6669384">As a general reply:&nbsp; Shooting through an arrow slit does require a &quot;To Hit&quot; roll, according to RAW.Yes, D&amp;D 3.5 is the game (as noted in the thread tag), and yes it's a hard tactical movement game where everything snaps to a grid.&nbsp; If the placement wasn't forced to be in 5 foot increments than it would be easier to say that characters right on the outside fringe might need some kind of adjusted Save (say, as if they had Improved Evasion) because the spell might overlap their space.&nbsp; But the hard grid system doesn't allow for &quot;might overlap&quot;&nbsp; It either affects their square or it doesn't.Limits on pinpoint accuracy isn't a &quot;physics&quot; thing.&nbsp; There's nothing in the laws of physics that even addresses the issue.&nbsp; It's a &quot;that's hard to believe&quot; thing when it happens 100% of the time, even in a world with magic.&nbsp; I'm not trying to make magic &quot;unreliable&quot;.&nbsp; I'm not calling for a &quot;to hit&quot; roll, not for Fireball, nor Flame Strike, nor Ice Storm, nor even lowly Grease.&nbsp; Cone and Line type spells wouldn't be affected, since the &quot;point of origin&quot; will always be precise:&nbsp; The caster's hand, at a corner of their own square. The house rule simply says that if you're throwing a ranged AoE type spell, and you don't have a hard target in sight to aim at, you might be less than perfectly precise in your placement.&nbsp; 1/3 of the time (on a 1 or a 6) the blast works as advertised anyway, as far as the flat ground perimeter is concerned.As far as it being &quot;one more rule to remember&quot; and slowing play, it's a pretty simple one, and it rarely needs to apply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 6516460, member: 6669384"] As a general reply: Shooting through an arrow slit does require a "To Hit" roll, according to RAW. Yes, D&D 3.5 is the game (as noted in the thread tag), and yes it's a hard tactical movement game where everything snaps to a grid. If the placement wasn't forced to be in 5 foot increments than it would be easier to say that characters right on the outside fringe might need some kind of adjusted Save (say, as if they had Improved Evasion) because the spell might overlap their space. But the hard grid system doesn't allow for "might overlap" It either affects their square or it doesn't. Limits on pinpoint accuracy isn't a "physics" thing. There's nothing in the laws of physics that even addresses the issue. It's a "that's hard to believe" thing when it happens 100% of the time, even in a world with magic. I'm not trying to make magic "unreliable". I'm not calling for a "to hit" roll, not for [I]Fireball[/I], nor [I]Flame Strike[/I], nor [I]Ice Storm[/I], nor even lowly [I]Grease[/I]. Cone and Line type spells wouldn't be affected, since the "point of origin" will always be precise: The caster's hand, at a corner of their own square. The house rule simply says that if you're throwing a ranged AoE type spell, and you don't have a hard target in sight to aim at, you might be less than perfectly precise in your placement. 1/3 of the time (on a 1 or a 6) the blast works as advertised anyway, as far as the flat ground perimeter is concerned. As far as it being "one more rule to remember" and slowing play, it's a pretty simple one, and it rarely needs to apply. [/QUOTE]

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