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If you want a Crusader with a gun, just use a pepperbox.
You don't even need the Exotic Weapon Proficiency as you'll be rolling against touch AC, so you can afford the -4 to hit... if you give your guy a Dex of at least 14 hitting won't be an issue. And you just need to shoot that gun when you're not casting a spell or smacking someone with your fists anyhow...
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you can be that guy, basically... :)
Effectively, a pepperbox is a great option for anyone that's not a gunslinger, at close range (20ft or less), since you can shoot up to 6 times vs. Touch AC without the need for reloading. So that sacred priest / warpriest you mentioned has great melee capacity, and when he's not within 5-foot step reach of someone and he doesn't want to cast a spell (or when you're being attacked by annoying flying creatures you can't reach), he can shoot that pepperbox for as many iterative attacks he has. If he rolls 20, bonus. I'd give a pepperbox even to a low-level wizard, if cost is not an issue, as they are often tapped for spells.
Note that this tactic is just good at close range (20 feet or less). Anything further than that you should switch to crossbow or other long range weapon, if you have access to them. Since you're not going to roll against touch AC for these, this should be your last resort option. So melee/spells first, pepperbox second, crossbow last.
Depending on your levels, you can do this with 3 levels of Weapon Master, and 6 levels of Sohei Monk. If you are going Gestalt, that's easy, but if you are doing normal advancement, it could take a while.
Fun thing about this build you can still benefit from Rapid Reload and you can use advanced firearms since it won't rely on being a deity's favorite weapon.
The prereqs for Crusader's Flurry is "Weapon Focus with your deity’s favored melee weapon."
So this doesn't work with guns or any other ranged weapon.
Maybe he wants to pistol whip flurry? :D
this makes me think of equilibrium and gun-kata.
this makes me think of equilibrium and gun-kata.
I was just thinking about that movie recently, but I can't remember much about it. I just remember it being a martial art with guns... :)
Depending on your levels, you can do this with 3 levels of Weapon Master, and 6 levels of Sohei Monk. If you are going Gestalt, that's easy, but if you are doing normal advancement, it could take a while.
Fun thing about this build you can still benefit from Rapid Reload and you can use advanced firearms since it won't rely on being a deity's favorite weapon.
Yeah, I'd considered that, but it's a little high level for the current game. I'll probably keep it up my sleeve for a gestalt game, since I have a GM who's a big fan of Gestalt.
Not requiring a god's favored weapon opens up a lot of options too. Musket flurry with 3 levels of musket master, or if advanced firearms are available, flurrying with a double barreled shotgun is a pretty cool image.
Point of clarification. I said "you can benefit from rapid reload" but what I MEANT was "you can benefit from rapid SHOT" (you can't flurry and use rapid shot as a zen archer, but there is no such restriction for a sohei...)
That said, you can still benefit from rapid reload because normally a one-handed firearm reloads as a move action (and a two-handed firearm as a standard) with Rapid Reload, but advanced firearms drops that to a free action for either...
So I accidentally said something accurate, but still not what I meant to say :D
The normal 'dip' is five levels of gunslinger for DEX to damage, which even a warpriest would find useful. If not using advanced firearms (revolver is advanced) then amateur gunslinger is pretty essential for non-gunslingers, need the quick clear deed. If using 2H firearms then there is no sure way around 3 levels of Musket Master and using a musket to get free action reloading, a GM ruling could permit free action reloading of an advanced 2H firearms either through rapid reload or metal alchemical cartridges (the rules for reloading advanced firearms are incomplete and the rapid reload feat actually slows down the reload speed of advanced firearms).
Huh... I just assumed that it would go from move to free, but I see your point.
You can also dip 3 levels of trench fighter to get dex to damage with a firearm (just found out about that archetype today :D ).
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Maybe he wants to pistol whip flurry? :DThe prereqs for Crusader's Flurry is "Weapon Focus with your deity’s favored melee weapon."
So this doesn't work with guns or any other ranged weapon.
i tried that before for coolness but it's impossible both because pistol whip is not finessable and takes up a standard and grit point. Pistol whip can make a guy prone so if you're high str it's cool