I know this topics have been adressed multiple times and i know someone will say "use search and you'll find plenty of thread that talk about this topics". I did search pretty much everywhere but i couldn't find an answer to my specific questions, so i ultimately resorted to posting a new thread in hope it could help me clarify my doubts.
1) As written on the Ride skill, you can:
"Fight with a Combat-Trained Mount: If you direct your war-trained mount to attack in battle, you can still make your own attack or attacks normally. This usage is a free action."
My doubt is what happens if you fail the check or you don't want to make the check for whatever reason? Do you simply lose the chance to make your mount attack or does something different happen that doesn't le you attack normally? Because as it is worded it makes me think that the check is necessary "to make your attack normally", rather than "to make your mount attack".
2) On firearms loading:
"It is a standard action to load each barrel of a one-handed early firearm and a full-round action to load each barrel of a two-handed early firearm."
Does that mean that i can reload A SINGLE barrell with a standard action (1H) or a full-round action (2H) or that i can reload ALL barrels with a standard action/full-round action?
3) Everybody knows the questions that rise about the Lightning Reload Deed, but i have a different doubt:
"At 11th level, as long as the gunslinger has at least 1 grit point, she can reload a single barrel of a one-handed or two-handed firearm as a swift action once per round. If she has the Rapid Reload feat or is using an alchemical cartridge (or both), she can reload a single barrel of the weapon as a free action each round instead. Furthermore, using this deed does not provoke attacks of opportunity."
Let's say i am a 11th level gunslinger, i already have the rapid reload feat, and i'm looking for a new deed to take and i read that part "If she has the Rapid Reload feat or is using an alchemical cartridge (or both), she can reload a single barrel of the weapon as a free action each round instead".
Now i say: wow, i can already do this since about... 8 levels? using rapid reload and alchemical cartridges. Why on earth would i waste a Deed this way? (even more so if i can use this deed for a free action reload only once for round). The only answer i can give is to say: "I'm a badass gunslinger that can reload a single handed firearm as a free action without using alchemical cartridges" but that seems a little... i don't know, useless?
Sorry for my bad english. Maybe the doubts are just because i don't understand it as well as i should xP. Thanks to everyone who will help me.
|
1) No comment.
2) Where is there confusion? It clearly says "each barrel". If you want to load both barrels of a 1H firearm it would take a combination of 2 standard actions to complete, or 2 full rounds for a 2H firearm.
3) With Lightning Reload and Rapid Reload, now you don't have to rely on your expensive paper cartridges to get your iterative attacks. Sounds pretty cool to me.