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<blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1720492" data-attributes="member: 478">You are doing it right, basically, except for one thing (well, you mention it yourself <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If there is someone providing cover to the target, then there is a chance to hit that one, if the shot would be negated by the cover penalty (i.e. for the standard -4 cover, if the shot misses by 1-4 points, it can hit the &quot;cover&quot;, if the attack roll (without the cover penalty figured in) would hit that someone, I think, but it's explained in the PHB in the combat section under cover, IIRC).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Not sure how cover was figured out in 3.0, but in 3.5 it's very easy. You just pick one corner of the attackers square (optimum choice for the attacker) and then draw lines to every corner of the target square. If any of those lines crosses an occupied square (which is not the target's own square <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), the target has cover.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Common sense also works, just let the DM decide at what point there is cover. This should be done in a reasonable and objective fashion, of course. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bye&nbsp; &nbsp; Thanee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thanee, post: 1720492, member: 478"] You are doing it right, basically, except for one thing (well, you mention it yourself :)). If there is someone providing cover to the target, then there is a chance to hit that one, if the shot would be negated by the cover penalty (i.e. for the standard -4 cover, if the shot misses by 1-4 points, it can hit the "cover", if the attack roll (without the cover penalty figured in) would hit that someone, I think, but it's explained in the PHB in the combat section under cover, IIRC). Not sure how cover was figured out in 3.0, but in 3.5 it's very easy. You just pick one corner of the attackers square (optimum choice for the attacker) and then draw lines to every corner of the target square. If any of those lines crosses an occupied square (which is not the target's own square ;)), the target has cover. Common sense also works, just let the DM decide at what point there is cover. This should be done in a reasonable and objective fashion, of course. :) Bye Thanee [/QUOTE]

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