I CAN STILL SEE THE DREAM: Improved Targeting: Ignores Blocking Terrain. When a ranged combat attack resolves, any blocking terrain along its line of fire to the target is destroyed; May make a ranged combat attack when adjacent to an opposing character.

Got two weird cases to ask about here, briefly.

1: What happens when Cyclops fires through a straight 45 degree diagonal line between the corner of two walls?

C __
.. |T

Something like that.

2: What happens when Cyclops fires at a diagonal between two walls in a line on the way to a target?

C
WW
X T

C = Cyke, W = Wall, T = Target character

Thanks, folks. I've seen differing ideas of these on different posts, and I'm trying to get them consolidated in one place.

I think you only destroy one wall, active player decides which wall.

Remember, if only one was destroyed, you wouldn't need another to shoot though that intersection, right?

1) I believe you choose one of the two as it is perfectly between the two.
2) Same thing... you choose one of the two to destroy.

Based on the principle of lines of fire being treated as if they pass through the less hindered square of an intersection, I've always treated cases like this as if they pass through one of the squares, with the attacking player choosing which one on the grounds that they're equally hindered (in the sense that, for the purposes of the attack, they're not hindered at all). As such, only one of the wall segments would be destroyed, and Cyclop's player would choose. Certainly not an area in which I'd consider myself particularly knowledgeable, though, so I'd be interested to see what other people think.

EDIT: Yep, Red King puts it a Hell of a lot more elegantly than I did.

So is this reading of the power correct, that you destroy one, not both, of the walls involved?

That seems kind of wonky to me, personally. The wording problem really comes up with the phrase "along its line of fire," which raises the question of precisely WHAT that means.

Any further input? Or are these interpretations correct?

My understanding is that both are destroyed. I'm not sure exactly where that would have come from, though.

I believe there is a ruling that if you destroy blocking terrain while moving and move through an intersection you destroy all squares on that intersection but not sure about shooting through an intersection.

Edit: Actually I think the rule applies to Improved Targeting as well

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showpo...19&postcount=4

Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks for digging that out.

Thanks for the orange answer, bluerat. Nice to see that. Guess that solves the questions, folks! Nothing more to see here.