Hitting the Wrong Target

If you attack with a ranged weapon
and miss, you may hit someone else.
You must check for this if you fail your
attack roll.
You may hit anyone – friend or foe
– if he was in your line of fire. To
determine this, check the line along
which you attacked. Any hex this line
passes through is “in the way.”
Combatants who are kneeling or lying
down are not in the way unless you,
too, are at their level.
Because hitting the wrong target is
a matter of pure chance, your attack
roll against each possible target is the
same: a flat 9 or the number you
would have had to roll to hit him on
purpose, whichever is worse.
Roll first for the target closest to
you. If you miss, or if that target
dodges, roll for the next target. And so
on. Keep rolling until you hit, or some-
one blocks or parries your attack, or
you run out of targets. If your attack
went along a line between two occu-
pied hexes, roll randomly to see which
one you check first.
Anyone (friend or foe) gets the
same defense against this attack that
he would have had had your attack
been intentional.