indeed, why might that be?
Damage output of Larges and Huges? Maps with low objects and hard walls?


Here here! That has made sense for a very long time,
it's so counter-intuitive an Ewok can in some circumstances, shoot 'through' / 'past' a ATAT or ATST blocking a doorway.

Would it be implemented via an alteration to things such as Sniper etc?
Because, if you don't change sniper etc, there are 4 or 5 special ability combos which would still be interpretted as being able to do that goofy interaction for targetting

Though, for some Huge and Large sized characters on some maps,
it would be nice to thwart the R2 Override door-gimmick squads by being able to walk through the wall,
have destructible terrain and replace the wall with a terrain tile overlay...

Not really though, as we have already made it so mouse droids cant provide cover or restrict movement. This is actually a good idea.

Unless I'm not getting it, I think they are suggesting that Huge characters should act like a psuedo wall? Not allowing sniper to function with characters

Should have posted this originally...
Glossary definition of Line of Sight:
"A character can see a target that it has line of sight to. Walls block line of sight. To determine line of sight, draw an imaginary line between any point in one character’s space and any point in the other character’s space. If any such line is not blocked by a wall, then the two characters have line of sight to each other. The line is clear if it doesn’t intersect or even touch walls."

Only walls block sight right now (closed doors count as walls).
But what if larger characters could do the same...for attacks, abilities, and even CEs...?

You guys above are on the right track.

essentially, yes,
and in many discussions over the years,
from WotC forums all the way to present,
there's been folks who have said "beyond a certain 'zen' point of complexity,
why not just use SWRPG, or the new ImperialAssault, or other roleplaying game frameworks?"

Or, from another point of view, you're being "meta" and displaying eidetic recall on this issue that is raised from time to time over the eons



Yeah, it's as though they are effectively "Temporary Mobile Walls" in game terms. that's what I couldn't fathom eons ago,
but, if you go down that rabbithole, how many tournaments have hinged on the interpretation of this particular mechanic interaction.

There are a few maps where, in some alleyways, you could stack Huge + Large bases equipodally,
to force line of sight to be untargettable. "Hobson's Choice Targetting Gimmick"
as janky and annoying as the R2 Override TKO gimmick was? who knows...
how would the meta change and adapt to clustering around a particular mechanic.
Which would be similar to the concerns raised intermittently about "Squeezing"
"Is it Time to allow Squeezing, at a different move penalty, for Large and Huges? "