Siege mage bond use as a disarm?


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So I have hella questions about Siege mage.

1. Can I disarm a crew by bonding with their siege weapon from 30ft away?
2. Can I bond with enemy siege engines and aim them at the crew?
3. Can I cast gravity bow on a light Ballista (RAW says I can if I touch it because its just a huge heavy crossbow)
4. Can I cast magic weapon on a light Ballista? (RAW says I can)
5. Do crossbow feats work with light ballista? (RAW says I can)
6. Based on players guide Skull and Shackle as long as I have at least 1 rank in knowledge engineering, I do not get the -2 for the size of the siege engine. (Confirm please?)
7.Can I be disarmed from my bonded Siege engine?


DiGOC wrote:

So I have hella questions about Siege mage.

1. Can I disarm a crew by bonding with their siege weapon from 30ft away?
2. Can I bond with enemy siege engines and aim them at the crew?
3. Can I cast gravity bow on a light Ballista (RAW says I can if I touch it because its just a huge heavy crossbow)
4. Can I cast magic weapon on a light Ballista? (RAW says I can)
5. Do crossbow feats work with light ballista? (RAW says I can)
6. Based on players guide Skull and Shackle as long as I have at least 1 rank in knowledge engineering, I do not get the -2 for the size of the siege engine. (Confirm please?)
7.Can I be disarmed from my bonded Siege engine?

1. can you disarm someone because they hold your bonded item when you are a normal mage? no. and also you are not holding a siege engine in your hand(s) or else you are a very big creature. so no for 1

3. no because it is only for bow and crossbow and nowhere it say that a ballista is treated as a bow or crossbow for magic and other effect.

4. yes since its a direct attack not an indirect attack

5. no since its not a crossbow its a siege weapon

7. the only way to ''disarm'' you from the siege weapon i would say is you are moved away from it and another crew take control of it since you do not hold it with your hand(s) or you are a very big creature otherwise


Thanks for the answers, also can I bond with a ram and if so do I use it to attack without a crew since is does not need reloading?

Also I just saw this:

Ballista: A ballista is essentially a Huge heavy crossbow fixed in place.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/other-rules/siege-engines/

Everywhere I read it described, a light ballista is a huge heavy crossbow.

So I might ask my DM.


DiGOC wrote:

Thanks for the answers, also can I bond with a ram and if so do I use it to attack without a crew since is does not need reloading?

yes you can bond with a ram since its a siege weapon you can attack with any siege weapon that you are within 30 feet you just need a crew to reload it until you are lvl 10 since a ram do not need to be reload you do not need a crew with it

DiGOC wrote:

Also I just saw this:

Ballista: A ballista is essentially a Huge heavy crossbow fixed in place.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/other-rules/siege-engines/

Everywhere I read it described, a light ballista is a huge heavy crossbow.

So I might ask my DM.

its just a description to better visualize the ballista, for it to have magical effect to affect it it need to be said in its descriptioin it is treated as a crossbow for effect that affect a crossbow, since it do not say that you can't put spell that specify a crossbow.

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