harrying fire action

[Decado Storm]

Do you add cover to the ac15 roll or is it a flat 15ac to give allies the bonus

[Gilfalas]

Decado Storm wrote:

Do you add cover to the ac15 roll or is it a flat 15ac to give allies the bonus

It is a flat AC 15. It is basically a DC check using your combat to hit. It is independant totally of the target you are affecting.

[Furansisuco]

Sorry for the necropost, but this is the best thread for my question.
If harriying fire is a flat check...
If two PCs use it, the third have a +4 to circustance bonus to attack?

[Zwordsman]

So circumstance bonuses do stack. but not from the same source.

So. It kind of depends on the GM. Is the source the action of harrying fire. or is the source the charcter doing said action?

Off hand I'm of the belief it would stack for the +4 myself.

Harrying is not an attack at the target. So harrying fire (or covering roll for that matter) would not gain the benefit of the harrying circ bonus either.

So I'm fine with the idea of a whole team harrying fire vs the main target to open up the main attacker's attack.

[Furansisuco]

Circustance can be stack, my doubt was if harriying fire was an attack to use the bonus or not, but in the same answer, you have clarified it for me, thanks.

[Metaphysician]

Hmm. If you allow harrying fire to stack endlessly, that certainly would explain how vast hoards of enemies could be threatening. 30 arbitrarily weak enemies vs one target, 29 of them use Harrying Fire, the 30th of them benefits from something north of +30 to hit. Which will run out first, the target's HP or the hoard's numbers?

( Admittedly, if its thirty CR 1/2 conscript mooks vs one level 10 PC, the answer is probably "the hoard dies first", but still. )