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Maerok
2007-03-18, 12:12 PM
Crossbow Blader

HD: d10
Levels: 10

Prerequisites:
Feats: Point Blank Shot, Two-Weapon Fighting, Precise Shot, Rapid Reload
BAB: +5

Skills:
As fighter.

Skill Points: 2 + Int modifier

Class Abilities:
For brevity, gun refers to a light repeating crossbow, or another one-handed crossbow (or even an actual gun, if you have access to one).

Gun-Blade Style (1): When you make a full attack action with your melee weapon, you may use the extra attack from TWF to fire your gun at one target within 30 feet. For all Gun-Blade Style abilities, melee attacks are carried out first. Then ranged attacks.

Gun-Blade Rapid Shot(1): When you make a full attack action with your melee weapon, you may add an additional ranged attack but at a -2 penalty to all other ranged attacks that round. This replaces Rapid Shot for the purpose of using Gun-Blade style attacks.

Reload Swipe (2): By foregoing your lowest melee attack during a full attack action, you may reload your gun.

Double Threat (3): You receive a +2 bonus to all ranged attacks against an opponent you have hit with a melee weapon this round.

Gun-Blade Manyshot (4): You may take a ranged attack with any melee attack action (but not full) with a -2 penalty to hit (not on AoO). When making a full attack action, for every five points of base attack bonus you have above +6, you may add one additional arrow to this attack, to a maximum of four arrows at a base attack bonus of +16. However, each arrow after the second adds a cumulative -2 penalty on all ranged attacks this round. This replaces Manyshot for the purpose of using Gun-Blade style attacks.

Advanced Gun-Blade Style (5): When you make a full attack action with your melee weapon, you may use the extra attacks from TWF and ITWF to fire your gun at targets within 30 feet.

Gun-Blade Opportunism (6): You may take a melee attack and a ranged attack against an opponent when you make an attack of opportunity.

Long-range Pot-shot (7): When you take advantage of a Gun-Blade Style ability, you may target enemies up to half the range of your gun away.

Gun-Blade Synergy (8): If you have any of the following feats for your blade, they apply to your gun, and vice versa (but do not stack): Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization, Weapon Finesse, Greater Weapon Focus, Greater Weapon Specialization, and Improved Critical.

Gun-Blade Advantage (9): Whenever you trip, disarm, sunder, overrun, or charge an enemy successfully, you may make a ranged attack afterwards.

Gun-Blade Style Mastery (10): When you make a full attack action with your melee weapon, you may use the extra attacks from TWF, ITWF, and GTWF to fire your gun at targets within 30 feet.

ArmorArmadillo
2007-03-19, 12:30 PM
This doesn't really make sense; how are you doing these things with a crossbow? Do you just double load it, do you rapid load?

Light crossbows are two-handed, consider using Hand Crossbow instead.

Rapid Reload should be a prerequisite, otherwise the class seems to ignore the need to reload as a move action.

Also, wouldn't you take AOO from firing a crossbow while at range to use a sword? It seems awkward without an ability to counteract that.

On that note, all these abilities involve doing special things with the crossbow, where does the sword enter into it?

Finally, as it stands, it's a 10 level prestige class that grants 3 abilities, consider compressing it or offering more.

Closet_Skeleton
2007-03-19, 01:35 PM
You can shoot a light cross-bow one handed though.

ArmorArmadillo
2007-03-19, 03:36 PM
You can shoot a light cross-bow one handed though.
But it's highly unwieldy and you can't reload; hand crossbows seem a little bit more managable.

Maerok
2007-03-19, 06:22 PM
It's in the works. The concept is that you can take a sword and a light crossbow into battle with you, employing both of them at the same time for melee and ranged combat simultaneously. By light crossbow, I intend on a light repeating crossbow. One of the abilities would be to substitute a melee attack to reload your crossbow.

Edit: I've reworded the style abilities to be simpler. I'll include rules for using Rapid Shot and Manyshot later. As well as adding class features.

And if the text is all messed up, its because I'm using a library computer with funky screen dimensions/resolution.