Building a machine gun (Kasatha with all the bolts!)

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Now it has come to the time to build this thing. I'm thinking Bolt Ace 5/Slayer 7 for a level 12 frame. Non PFS, and probably going to do the old fashioned stat rolling. For sake of ease, let's just play with a 25 point buy.

Multiweapon fighting will almost definitely be level 1. Besides that, I've got no idea where I'm going with this. I've never built an archer, and even less desire until recently to mess with crossbows. I am also aware that gear is going to be expensive, but we house rule all non-magical or special material ammo is infinite. So that helps.

In theory, I'm almost picturing the wrist launchers will be used more for specialized ammo, or delivering poisons. So if, besides proficiency, feats are different for hand crossbows and the launchers, the crossbows are more primary.

[Dwarftr]

If you have a house rule for infinite ammo... which is AWEsome... might i suggest dual weilding repeaters? lite or hvy it dont matter. With 4 arms, u can shot and repeat cause it holds a 5 round clip, so unless u have 2 actually reload... u have a never-ending machinegun

[Azten]

This pistol might help with a different version of the build.

[Olaf the Holy]

Dwarftr wrote:

If you have a house rule for infinite ammo... which is AWEsome... might i suggest dual weilding repeaters? lite or hvy it dont matter. With 4 arms, u can shot and repeat cause it holds a 5 round clip, so unless u have 2 actually reload... u have a never-ending machinegun

Core feats:

-Multiweapon fighting
-Rapid Reload

You don't function if you don't have both of these.

You'll also require point blank shot and precise shot, unless you can deal with a -4 to hit by virtue of your dex.

Honestly, with a kasatha build, I'd do this;

lvl 1
-Multiweapon fighting.
Use a Repeating Heavy Crossbow. At best, you can draw two Light Crossbows along with your heavy repeater, but beyond the first salvo, you're not going to be firing those other light crossbows.

Lvl 5
-Rapid Reload, Precise Shot, Point Blank Shot
Now your build is worth something. You fire at least three light or hand crossbows, and add dex to damage with each. Honestly, I probably wouldn't play this built before this point.

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We do still reload, it's more we just don't keep track of ammo unless they're special. I did consider the repeater idea, I was just thinking the lulziness of 8 rotating bits of bolting damage.

The build is probably for an NPC down the line, probably in the 12-16 range of level. Mostly because the crossbows/launchers I was going to build would cost around 256000 gp.

I did also consider the silliness of the pistol build too, but I was hoping to avoid some firearms (they are abound elsewhere in the campaign, so I was hoping to go a little more "traditional" for lack of a better term.)