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If characters become clustered together during a fight, it becomes hard to draw a bead on their target. Sometimes, characters will accidentally hit something other than their intended target.

==Firing into Melee==
If a character attacks an enemy who has other characters within 5 feet of them, roll a dice to determine which is being hit before the To-Hit roll is made. Use the smallest character in the melee to represent 1 side of a dice; double the value for every larger character involved.

For instance, an orc bandit fires an arrow at a goblin whilst two other orc bandits are attacking them. The goblin's Small size gives them a value of 1 in this, whilst each orc bandit is Medium - one size category larger. This means that each Orc has 2 points, bringing the total value of the group to 5. To roll this, we would roll 1d10 and halve it, rounding up. On a 1-2, one orc is hit, on a 3-4, the other orc is hit and on a 5, the original target is hit.

In this instance, the archer gets a 3 - hitting one of their allies! With their back turned away from the archer, they are flatfooted against the attack and give the archer a +1 bonus they didn't even want to have on hitting a friend!

===Enormous Size Differences===
If a target is three or more Size categories larger than all other targets, the character cannot hit any other targets involved - unless they make a Precision attack. If the larger creature is the subject of an Overbear attempt, however, they must still roll for Firing into Melee.

==Precision Attacks==
To avoid the risk of Shooting Into A Melee, the character may consider their attack to be a Precision Attack with a -4 penalty. If this misses, no one is harmed (unless, for instance, the attack was with a grenade).

If a character has the [[Precision]] Combat Style, they have an easier time with this. The first level decreases the Precision Attack penalty by 2 points to -2 by default. The second level makes all Precision Attacks have no penalty, though the character is free to roll to see who they hit if they wish.

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