The Armiger gives Soft Cover to all adjacent allies, but can also take a talent that gives 'hard cover'. However, I can find nothing on what this Hard Cover means, the specific wordings are:
An armiger grants soft cover to any ally adjacent to him, even against attacks the armiger is not aware of and those that come from a direction that would not normally count the armiger as cover
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This talent allows an armiger to count as hard cover for all adjacent allies, rather than only being soft cover
What kind of cover would this Hard Cover be?
What source is this from?
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I'm guessing they're talking about this Armiger from Super Genius Games.
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From the class product thread:
No, it's just "cover," as opposed to the weaker "soft cover."
This comes up occasionally, and someday I'll have to revise the pdf. My wargamming instincts got the better of me, and I didn't like having "cover" and "soft cover." So I wrote "hard cover." But there is no hard cover in Pathfinder, just vanilla "cover."
RAW the talent does nothing. Hard Cover is not a Pathfinder term.
RAI and after a possible errata or DM ruling it does this: Normally adjacent allies gain +4 AC. With that talent they would also gain +2 to Reflex saves and be able to make Stealth checks as if they had gone behind a wall.Funny enough this allows a friendly Rogue to always be hidden and even snipe at people as long as they stay adjacent to the Armiger. It's like providing Hide in Plain Sight to the whole party.