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GodSlayer 03-18-05, 11:45 PM	Ok I'm curious about how a breath weapon interacts with cover I know it grants a bonus to Reflex saves but if we have Human standing behind a 50ft high 50 foot wide 5 foot thick stone wall. A Red Dragon with a 70 ft cone of Fire Breath weapon standing 60 from the wall uses his breath weapon while on the ground. By the MM the cone is 70 wide at the end and 70 high at the end. Would the person behind the wall have full cover or partial cover? The Dragon doesn't have line of sight on the person but the breath weapon is bigger than the wall. And if the dragon does enough Damage to destroy the wall does the human behind the wall take Full BW damage or BW damage - Walls Hp to show the wall soaked up some of the damage?
Patrick Draken-Korin 03-19-05, 12:12 AM	where is your human? bottom-middle of the wall, bottom right edge, top, middle, middle-middle on a scafold/ledge? if the human is more than 5ft from the edge of the wall (and the breath weapon doesn't penetrate it), then human is fine. if the breath weapon does penetrate it- how much? one 5ft square (relation to the humans position is important again)? 2d4 5ft sqaures? what. a red great wyrm might not be the best comparison to make (very high powered to compare, unless it's for a current campaign). generally, i'd say that even if the breath weapon got through the wall, and the human was within 5ft of the hole, i'd halve damage dealt. now if the drago was closer- a 30ft wide by 30ft tall wall, 5ft thick, the dragon (great wyrm red) is 40ft away. the wall hasn't been damaged (yet), then the human (if more than 5ft from the wall's edge) is unharmed. the wall soaks up the attack, and blocks all behind it from harm. the dragons breath weapon would actually etend the full 70ft, but it's not a spread remember- it doesn't close inwards (much), so anyone behind the wall, and away from the edge is fine. actually your human could be standing 10ft behind my wall without fear of getting burned. hmm. getting tired. rambling. i'll stop now. see this later. consider if i should edit it then (for clarity)