In the campaign I am running one of my players is going to be using the Crossbowman archetype from the APG. His character essentially lost all his Strength and Constitution and got turned small size (got turned into a child), so I'm letting him do some re-classing. He's going for a Crossbowman (it makes sense for his character) with heavy stealth. My problem is, reading over the stealth and sniping rules, it doesn't look possible to use the Crossbowman's Deadshot (and Improved and Greater) with sniping.
Deadshot requires you to attack using a readied action. Sniping requires you to use your move action after firing to attempt to hide again. Readying an action is a standard action, and you can only ready a standard action or less. As such, using Deadshot would break stealth and he would not be able to attempt to stealth again until his next turn.
Am I reading this correct? Because that really sucks for him. Especially with the Crossbowman's bonus to Sniping stealth checks. It is obviously intended for a hidden sniper, but according to the rules, you can't stealth after using Deadshot, the class's main perk.
Is this right? Is there a solution, or am I going to have to homebrew this?