![]() You are flat-footed, meaning only your armor bonuses will count when someone attempts to hit you. You can’t be knocked prone when Swimming.Ģe Pathfinder is somewhat less harsh, but still sucks. If you would be knocked prone while you’re Climbing or Flying, you fall (see rules on falling). You can Take Cover while prone to hunker down and gain cover against ranged attacks, even if you don’t have an object to get behind, gaining a +4 circumstance bonus to AC against ranged attacks (but you remain flat-footed ). The only move actions you can use while you’re prone are Crawl and Stand. You are flat-footed and take a –2 circumstance penalty to attack rolls. Getting up means you are not focusing on really defending yourself, so those opponents of yours can take the option to get in a good swipe at you with an Attack of Opportunity. ![]() The trade-off being that 99.9 percent of ranged attacks are now coming at you from a direct horizontal angle, so you are a much smaller target and therefore are a great deal harder to hit. After all, they are going to be standing over you and letting gravity do most of the work. You are going to be a great deal easier to hit in melee as well. The exception for this being the Crossbow, which can easily be braced on the shoulder. When you are on your back or on your face, you’ve got a solid floor or the hard ground keeping you from drawing back your bow string, or swinging a sling over your head. It is also going to be pretty hard for you to get a shot off with a bow. It’s pretty hard to swing a sword or thrust a spear, when you are limited in movement. You are knocked flat on your face or on your back. Standing up is a move-equivalent action that provokes an attack of opportunity. A prone defender gains a +4 bonus to Armor Class against ranged attacks, but takes a –4 penalty to AC against melee attacks. A prone attacker has a –4 penalty on melee attack rolls and cannot use a ranged weapon (except for a crossbow). Pathfinder’s two editions are slightly different when it comes to what the Prone condition actually does. ![]()
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