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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2773940" data-attributes="member: 2011">Think of it this way, a larger creature can attack you from above. You would get the +4 Cover Bonus because the creature is in front of you, but he is not going "through" the grid line in front of you, he is going past the "grid line" of a 3 dimensional cubic grid above you.DND doesn't have many rules about 3 dimensional attacks, but you can just extrapolate any of the two dimensional grid rules to three dimensional cubic rules.For example, in our last game, the PCs were attacked by Trolls. So although 2 of the PCs were close to the Trolls, the PC Wizard thought it was more important to attack 5 Trolls with a Fireball than it was to worry about 2 PCs getting hit by them. However, some of the Trolls were on a ledge 15 feet above the floor. So, the Wizard targeted the spell above the ledge.I did not rule that the Fireball was a cylinder of Fire that went all of the way to the ground. I ruled it as a sphere which although one of the PCs was just within the radius from a top down view, he was outside the edge from a "side view". Take the grid and turn it 90 degrees up and down.[code]   xx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxpgggggggg[/code]Where x is the radius of the spell and p is the PC and g is the ground (in this case, it was only 15 feet above the ground).Normally when you cast a Fireball at opponents, it is at "opponent level" where you only get the top half of the hemisphere and hence, any creature within the "radius" gets hit. But, a creature at the edge only has to be levitating or flying 5 feet up to get missed:[code]   xx xxxxxx xxxxxxyxxxxxxxxgggggggg[/code]</blockquote>

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