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For shot on the run there is a feat, and for ride-by attack (melee) there is a feat, but what about ride-by shooting? Is there a feat for that?
I'm not sure what such a ride-by shooting feat would do. You can almost do what ride-by does for melee already.
To quote the mounted combat rules:
You can use ranged weapons while your mount is taking a double move, but at a –4 penalty on the attack roll. You can use ranged weapons while your mount is running (quadruple
speed) at a –8 penalty. In either case, you make the attack roll when your mount has completed half its movement. You can make a full attack with a ranged weapon while your mount is moving. Likewise, you can take move actions normally.
So without an such feat, if you only want to make a single attack, your mount can move, you make your attack (-4 if double move, -8 if full run), your mount makes the second move.
I could see asking for a special feat to reduce the penalties for firing from a moving mount, but I don't know of an existing one. I'm not familiar with all the 3PP supplements, perhaps there's something there.
Thanks. I WAS looking for just such a feat, since there is a feat reducing limitations/penalties for melee attacks from horse back. But if there is none, I might just create one.
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Mounted Archery. CRB page 131, or right here:
Mounted Archery (Combat)
You are skilled at making ranged attacks while mounted.
Prerequisites: Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat.
Benefit: The penalty you take when using a ranged weapon while mounted is halved: –2 instead of –4 if your mount is taking a double move, and –4 instead of –8 if your mount is running.
Does that help?
I've seen that one and it's unclear to me: at what point during the round do you shoot then? 1.) Either before or after the horse moves, or 2.) anywhen in the round while the horse is moving?
What I want to know is; do you make an attack as you would on your feet - with the standard action on either "side" of the move action - or as you would a shot on the run, with the attack being made somewhere "during" the move action?
I thought Mounted Archery let you shoot at any point during the movement, but apparently not. Is there any feat or ability to do this?
Such a low value option that it isn't good enough to be a feat. Ride check maybe?
If I were to houserule, I'd just put it in w/ Mounted Archery like I thought it was. In combat a single move action from the mount is usually plenty and the regular penalty for a double move isn't so bad, so the feat's pretty pointless anyway, IMO.