Sight & Fire (sage ability)
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Sight & Fire is an amateur sage ability that provides a character with the ability to make the best use of protective cover while firing or hurling a missile weapon. The ability cannot be employed when using a sling, staff sling or bola, but can be used with any other range attack.
When used under the right circumstances, archers and other missile-using combatants can be virtually invulnerable to enemies who are unable to rush their position or outflank them.
Sighting
The character, hiding behind cover, makes a glance around a corner without making themselves a target, a move called a "sighting." This requires 1 action point (AP), and can be done without a penalty while loading a weapon, so long as the weapon is not fired or hurled that same turn. If the character chooses, and already has the weapon loaded or readied, after sighting the character may move, fire and return to cover with a 2 AP movement cost, the same as is normal for making an attack.
A new sighting is required for every attack to be made.
Firing
Firing and returning gives a -1 penalty to hit, but the ability allows the character to remain hidden on the enemy's turn. If the target has had a turn since being sighted, and is not now in the same hex, the attack will miss, as there isn't time to move, fire and move again to keep being seen with the movement rate given.
If the character wishes to adjust themselves to find a proper target, they may do so, thereby not firing or hurling a missile uselessly. However, to return to cover afterwards will require the normal additional AP cost.
If a fumble is rolled while sighting & firing, the character will clumsily drop their weapon and be so disoriented they will be exposed until their next turn.
