Special NPC

[Lvl 12 Procrastinator]

Got an NPC concept, trying to figure out how to make it work. If you need more details than I'm providing here, I'll have to wait until I get home to fire up Hero Labs on my home machine.

Stuff my players shouldn't look at:

He's an elven arcane archer with autism. He's a sniper who can rapidly calculate all the minor adjustments needed to strike targets at long range. Like Rain Man can count cards, this guy can factor in that slight breeze, the rate of speed of the target, angles, parabolic arcs, you name it.

Specifically what I'm looking for is how to give this guy some bonuses associated with this special ability, while staying within the rules.

If it's not possible, I'll just house rule something.

[Christopher Van Horn]

Lvl 12 Procrastinator wrote:

Got an NPC concept, trying to figure out how to make it work. If you need more details than I'm providing here, I'll have to wait until I get home to fire up Hero Labs on my home machine.

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You could look at the 3.5 feat for sniper shots, it added a +2 for shooting at someone with cover or concealment. Combined with improved precise shot it nets +2 against a target that you ignore the bonuses they receive making it easier to hit targets that are normally harder to hit. Kinda silly but might work with your concept. Other than that look at some of the old prestige class abilities for ricochet shots as with this feat and those abilities he would actually be better at trick shots than dead on shots. He hits better when he does the math and hits you from odd angles but not when he actually has to take a straight shot because you can anticipate it and dodge it :D

[Dreaming Psion]

Far shot and improved precise shot feats? Just say that the description you gave accounts for why he's got those feats?

[Some call me Tim]

Lvl 12 Procrastinator wrote:

Got an NPC concept, trying to figure out how to make it work. If you need more details than I'm providing here, I'll have to wait until I get home to fire up Hero Labs on my home machine.

** spoiler omitted **

Not for Lvl 12 Procrastinator's Players.:

The most obvious is the far shot feat. Even going further down the feat tree. If he is so good then he should be able to use pinpoint targeting because it would help target very small targets.

Check out Zen archer. Very high concentration on a specific task, seems appropriate.

[Jeff1964]

Bonus feat-Perfect Strike (from APG, like the Zen Archer version, usable only on his bow). Maybe keep it to only 2 dice, but usable at will with his 'special bow', and not usable for any other weapon.