Protector tree reach & Adjacency ?

[orphias]

If a Protector tree is adjacent to a Large creature can it still defend against an attack that takes place opposite to it's location if it is on opposite side ?

[shroudb]

the only thing that matters is if the tree is adjacent to the Ally it tries to protect.

[orphias]

so even of the tree is adjacent to a 100-foot long draon, it can still react to an attack on the far side of the creature it is adjacent to - basically regardless of size?

[shroudb]

orphias wrote:

so even of the tree is adjacent to a 100-foot long draon, it can still react to an attack on the far side of the creature it is adjacent to - basically regardless of size?

You don't need it to be adjacent to the dragon (assuming the dragon is the attacker), you need it to be adjacent to the one being hit.

But yeah, if you are a large minotaur, and you have the tree on your "back", it will block a blow from the "front".

[Castilliano]

Yes, there can be strange paradoxes, like not blocking a blow 5' away because the ally wasn't adjacent, but blocking a blow X' away because the ally was, where X can literally be any number. So yeah, it can tax verisimilitude, and one must set aside physics and reconsider how the protector tree operates, which must be magically in some way, like there's some kind of symbiosis that lets the tree absorb the damage that it can't reasonably reach. There's some sort of metaphysics at play beyond merely blocking, like the branches run along the ally's flesh to reach the Strike (but not other attacks that look just like a Strike). So yeah, it's a bit nonsensical for a tree that doesn't even impede movement to stretch so far, but it's clear that the tree does operate this way.