If you're uncertain or need to be more precise, draw a line from the center of your space to the center of the target's space. Usually, the GM can quickly decide whether your target has cover. If a creature is entirely behind a wall or the like, you don't have line of effect and typically can't target it at all. Cover applies only if your path to the target is partially blocked. Cover Type of CoverĬover is relative, so you might simultaneously have cover against one creature and not another. A creature with standard cover or greater cover can attempt to use Stealth to Hide, but lesser cover isn't sufficient. If cover is especially light, typically when it's provided by a creature, you have lesser cover, which grants a +1 circumstance bonus to AC. You can increase this to greater cover using the Take Cover basic action, increasing the circumstance bonus to +4. Standard cover gives you a +2 circumstance bonus to AC, to Reflex saves against area effects, and to Stealth checks to Hide, Sneak, or otherwise avoid detection. When you're behind an obstacle that could block weapons, guard you against explosions, and make you harder to detect, you're behind cover. Chapter 9: Playing the Game / Encounter Mode / Movement in Encounters

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