Cover in 5e

[arawra]

How do you guys do it? Having cover gives your opponents disadvantage? 3.5 rules with 50%/25% miss chance?

[Wartex1]

Cover rules are on page 196 in the PHB.

[TheOOB]

Cover provides a bonus to AC(or a penalty to attack, can't remember which), which is the same it did in 3e(miss chance was for concealment).

[arawra]

Cover provides a bonus to AC(or a penalty to attack, can't remember which), which is the same it did in 3e(miss chance was for concealment).

I was really hoping they'd do away in RAW using + or - to abilities to everything :\

[Totema]

I was really hoping they'd do away in RAW using + or - to abilities to everything :\

Personally, I'm fine with that. As much as it's easier to use advantage/disadvantage, you can't have it everywhere, otherwise it either becomes just as much a headache to use as a bunch of static +/- numbers, or (using the PHB's system for it) it just becomes moot anyway when they all cancel out in the end.

[Gwendol]

Cover should provide a bonus to AC, and the rules are easy enough.

[TheOOB]

I was really hoping they'd do away in RAW using + or - to abilities to everything :\

This was intentional. Advantage doesn't stack with advantage(or disadvantage) and they want the DM to have (dis)advantage to use as a tool to arbitrate weird situations. This means some more common situations (like cover) need other mechanics. If (dis)advantage always or mostly happens, it's a tool the DM loses.

[Slipperychicken]

Cover provides a bonus to AC(or a penalty to attack, can't remember which), which is the same it did in 3e(miss chance was for concealment).

Half cover is +2 to AC and dex saves, three-quarters cover is +4, and total cover prevents attacks.

[RenaldoS]

Cover as AC make sense as it is the same kind of defense as using a shield or wearing plate.

[Stan]

I like the AC bonus for cover.

I found the 3e cover/concealment rules with miss chances tedious as you broke out a new set of rules instead of working on the to-hit roll. I see the technical point but it's not good gameplay. It harks back to having different systems for everything in old games. People also hated to have one good roll negated by a bad % roll.

[Inchoroi]

Half cover is +2 to AC and dex saves, three-quarters cover is +4, and total cover prevents attacks.

Isn't 3/4 cover a +5 to AC/DEX saves?

[Chadamantium]

Isn't 3/4 cover a +5 to AC/DEX saves?

yes. yes it is.