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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravellion" data-source="post: 2132339" data-attributes="member: 538">One of my players was an archer. After a very easy encounter, one of the enemy hobgoblins ran away over a hilltop, out of sight."I want to shoot that hobgoblin.""He's out of sight""I don't care. What do I need to roll?""Well, start with a 10% chance that you target the right square"*Rolls 10%*"*chuckle* Alright, you still have a 50% miss chance because of full concealment"*rolls, makes it*"Well, with the distance, wind, and odd trajectory (arch), you still have a -10."*rolls 20, cheers around the table*"Well let's see you confirm that, don't we? I think that goblin should be able to run away with one meager arr..."*rolls another 20, starts rolling very good damage, similing at me demeaningly**I blink a few times* "You climb up the hilltop to see whether your arrow connected. You spot a dead Hobgoblin, with an arrow near vertically in its skull, coming out of its lower jaw. It is in post-death spasms."Then the party statistician starts thinking about the odds... then he starts thinking about how his new character would think of this archer after this feat!Rav</blockquote>