Focused Shot and Firearms

[Goln "Goon" Leapstep]

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but after some fairly thorough searching, I was unable to find it:
Does the Focused Shot feat work with firearms in official Pathfinder Society rules?
The feat itself says "Bows and Crossbows", but this was in the Advanced Players Guide, before Ultimate Combat introduced guns into the Pathfinder world.
Also, the balance issue seems to favor bows and crossbows over guns as far as being overpowered, as both of those weapons have more chance of multiple shots fired in one round than a gun, therefor gaining more benefit from the + to damage than a gunslinger.

I keep hearing "GM Discretion" when I ask folks, but I'd like to know if there is an official errata or comment from Paizo about this particular case.

My Alchemist/Gunslinger would really appreciate knowing ^_^

[cblome59]

Should be in the Rules Forum as its a general rule and not a PFS specific one.

I'm going with no. There's a lot of feats that don't include Firearms. Ultimate Combat called out the ones that do (or added to them). So unless something changes, that's where I'd stand.

[Mike Mistele]

Goln "Goon" Leapstep wrote:

Also, the balance issue seems to favor bows and crossbows over guns as far as being overpowered, as both of those weapons have more chance of multiple shots fired in one round than a gun, therefor gaining more benefit from the + to damage than a gunslinger.

I'm no expert on gunslingers, but I do know that, between alchemical cartridges, the Rapid Reload feat (which *is* revised in Ultimate Combat to apply to firearms), and other things I'm not thinking of at the moment, it's entirely feasible to get off multiple shots in a round with a gun.

[Goln "Goon" Leapstep]

feasible, but more difficult, especially if you're using a musket. The point was, it is much EASIER to get multiple shots with the others.

As for the general rules, all I ever found there was "GM discretion", that's why I was wondering if there was any PFS-wide consensus about it, or if it had been discussed at all. Even if a couple of my local GMs allowed it, I wouldn't want to show up at a game somewhere else and be accused of cheating by another PFS GM down the road

[blackbloodtroll]

Also, bows don't explode.

[Goln "Goon" Leapstep]

So, lack of official response leads me to believe this does not, in fact, work with firearms. Is there a place I can go to make a suggestion for future errata? I feel this would in no way unbalance the game, and would make a good bit of sense for intelligence characters that take the time to train with guns