Can the Guided enchantment be used with bows?
Can the Guided enchantment be used with bows?
There is an unofficial post from James Jacobs that it was meant for melee only.
So for PFS, no, since they can use Dev posts for rulings. For 'normal' games, there is nothing to prevent you from using it on melee: It's be a good idea to check to make sure your DM's not following the unofficial post though.
Can the Guided enchantment be used with bows?There is an unofficial post from James Jacobs that it was meant for melee only.
So for PFS, no, since they can use Dev posts for rulings. For 'normal' games, there is nothing to prevent you from using it on melee: It's be a good idea to check to make sure your DM's not following the unofficial post though.
You mean prevent using it on ranged? :)
You mean prevent using it on ranged? :)Can the Guided enchantment be used with bows?There is an unofficial post from James Jacobs that it was meant for melee only.
So for PFS, no, since they can use Dev posts for rulings. For 'normal' games, there is nothing to prevent you from using it on melee: It's be a good idea to check to make sure your DM's not following the unofficial post though.
Yes, I meant ranged. ;)
Technically speaking it's a 3.5e weapon property, and so isn't allowed in most pathfinder groups.
It squeaks by by virtue of being from a 3.5 edition AP, though.
But then again, I've seldom seen any pathfinder games allow Dragon Magazine material, and paizo wrote that for 3.5e too, so IDK.
Technically speaking it's a 3.5e weapon property, and so isn't allowed in most pathfinder groups.
I've seen the opposite myself. I generally see '1st party and online' as requirements. With it being online and official pathfinder [and PFS approved oven], it's been approved the few times I recall it being brought up. This from playing with dozens of different DM online over the years, so I have a fairly big pool of games sampled, though I'll agree it's still anecdotal.
But then again, I've seldom seen any pathfinder games allow Dragon Magazine material, and paizo wrote that for 3.5e too, so IDK.
LOL Same here too. It was a rarity to see dragin disallowed from my perspective. In fact, I had games I think everything was out of Dragon [classes, feats AND adventure].
A cleric or inquisitor of Abadar with a guided light crossbow is an interesting proposition, to say the least.
A cleric or inquisitor of Abadar with a guided light crossbow is an interesting proposition, to say the least.
The main issue is that it replaces strength with wisdom. This means that the majority of ranged weapons don't get a lot of utility out of the enchantment. Bows, slings and such could use wis for damage but you'd need a Belt of Mighty Hurling or a Sanguine Angel's Furious Huntress [Strength for attack rolls with bows] to get Wis for attacks and damage at ranged.
I have a very specific House Rule that makes it mirror the Agile Property, replacing the text as such:
Agile weapons are unusually well balanced and responsive. A wielder with the Weapon Finesse feat can choose to apply her Dexterity modifier to damage rolls with an agile weapon in place of her Strength modifier. This modifier to damage is not increased for two-handed weapons, but is still reduced for off-hand weapons.
Guided weapons allows their wielders to use their instinct when striking blows with it. A wielder with the Guided Hand feat can choose to apply their Wisdom modifier to damage rolls with an guided weapon in place of their Strength modifier. This modifier to damage is not increased for two-handed weapons, but is still reduced for off-hand weapons.
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I'd check with your GM before taking it as it was written for a Pathfinder 3.5 product.
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I’ve not see a game allow 3.5 material since 2010 when I played a 3.5 module using pathfinder rules. No GM since has allowed any non-Pathfinder rules. About half use the PFS campaign clarifications as it cleans up a ton of scenagehans that the GM doesn’t need to the first session.
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For reference, here is a clarification from the editor in chief of the book and the person who wrote the forward. Also note the property mentions strength, which bows tend to use dexterity. So it’s a pretty big deviation of expected to consider ranged attacks as something the property was designed to be used.
Also of note, the hardcover all pathfinder version published in 2016 has Sial using:
+2 vicious spiked chain
The entire property was removed from the pathfinder update.