alchemist delayed bomb

[Rhett OHeskins]

can i add a delayed bomb to a crossbow bolt and shot it at a later date. i also have explosive missile. i want to use the feat focused shot with delayed bomb for maximum effort.

[MrCharisma]

As per the rules no. However I can't see it being game-breaking so in a home game I'd probably allow it.

What you CAN do is get yourself a CONDUCTIVE weapon and deal double bomb damage plus your weapon damage (Use Explosive Missile to deal weapon damage plus bomb damage, then the Conductive weapon deals another set of bomb damage for the cost of 2 bombs). If you take the Grenadier archetype you can also add in a tanglefoot bag or something as a move action.

[Rhett OHeskins]

but conductive only works with spell-like or supernatural. bombs are neither.

[MerlinCross]

Bombs have the "Su" tag for Supernatural.

[Rhett OHeskins]

but bombs are not a touch attck either, are they?

[MrCharisma]

Bombs use the THROW SPLASH WEAPON special attack.

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To attack with a splash weapon, make a ranged touch attack against the target.

You can use a conductive ranged weapon (bow/gun/etc) with bombs, but you couldn't use a conductive melee weapon with them.

[Rhett OHeskins]

thanks so much guys. you all have been a lot of help