Greetings,
I'm building an "Iron Man" type of character and am in dire need of free attacks, even if they are a 1d6.
Do you know any options for making such attacks?
The character is a 5th level Aasimar (Scion of Humanity) Bard (Archeologist), and he is making wondrous items to fit the theme.
Currently he has a gauntlet that shoots magic missiles, but I'd like to make melee/ranged attacks AND use the gauntlet.
Any help is welcome!
Thanks in advance.
You'll never get free action attacks, as a free action is something that you can do many times a round without there being any action spent and they are normally things like talking.
You can aim for an attack that is a swift action and get one of those a round. Quickened spells can be made to be a swift action to cast, but of course it counts as +4 caster level and are thus quite hard to cast or very expensive to get in an item.
I suspect there may be other ways to get a swift action in here or there, but I doubt there are many.
Sounds like he should probably be a magus and not a bard spell combat would allow you to attack and cast a magic missile at the same time
Another good option is the force blaster archetype for the Kobold Press Battle Scion (3rd party product). Thats a heavy armor full bab character that has a 'force blast' ability, that he can at 2nd level do as a move action (and still attack) and at 11th level do as a swift action.
Thanks for the replies!
I was thinking about a "shoulder cannon", that could fire every turn, without requiring a standard action. It could be a move action or free action.
Haste gives me another melee attack. I need a melee attack and a standar action to activate a magical item.