Can someone clarify if clustered shots can bypass DR for /- type DR?
The Universal Monster Rules say "When a damage reduction entry has a dash (—) after the slash, no weapon negates the damage reduction."
Therefore... someone using a bow for example (a weapon) wouldn't benefit from clustered?
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Short answer: it works fine.
Long answer: You need to consider the context of that line in the Universal Monster Rules. It just means there is not a kind of weapon (silver, cold iron, good, lawful, adamantine, chocolate) that bypasses the DR. Clustered Shots (a) is not a weapon but a feat (c.f. Greater Penetrating Strike for going through DR/- in particular) and (b) doesn't bypass the DR anyway, just lets you add your damage rolls together before the DR is applied. So it applies regardless of the type of DR.
Hope that made sense.
Yeah, clustered shots doesn't bypass DR. It makes it such that DR only applies once against your total damage.
So DR 10/- would normally apply against each arrow. If you had 4 arrows each would deal with it separately and your damage would be reduced by 40. With clustered shots, DR applies only once, and so your damage is reduced by only 10.
All of it gets lumped together, including Manyshot. (You don't have to assume a bow... I believe the feats still function if you are launching arrows from your hands... though your GM might have a problem with that.)
