Technomancer - Rain of Fire

[Helot_Commander]

Rain of Fire, CRB Pg. 123 wrote:

Once per day as a full action, you can spend 2 Resolve Points to shoot a ranged weapon at multiple targets within range; the maximum number of targets is equal to half your technomancer level or the number of shots in your weapon, whichever is lower. Each attack uses your highest attack bonus, and each enemy can be targeted only by a single shot.

My Question, is can you use this with:

a) A grenade launcher.
b) A Bow, using Grenade Arrows.
c) Blast weapons (non-unwieldy ones)

A grenade launcher does not state what you target, but grenades target grid intersections. Can you 'target' different intersections, and count them as enemies, or target enemies directly?

A bow, using grenade arrows, does not state what you target, but grenade arrows have an explosive tip that 'detonates on impact'. Can you target NPC's with grenade arrows directly, instead of intersections?

A blast weapon does state that 'nor can you shoot any creature more than once'. Can you (assuming your surrounded by enemies), fire this off such that each cone does not overlap with any other cone?

[Jasque]

A) I would expect table variation on grenade launchers.

The description of Rain of Fire seems to include grenade launchers until you get to the word "enemy." Some GMs will rule that each target must be an enemy, and others will rule that Rain of Fire works on any valid target, but if the target is an enemy (rather than a grid intersection), that enemy can only be targeted once.

Personally, I think that RAW allows grenade launchers. The description for grenades says that they "detonate in an explosive
radius when they reach the target." The word "target" seems key to me. You could hit a single enemy with 6 explosions, so long as no two grenades land in the same intersection.

I'd houserule against this, as it is overpowered in my opinion, but I do think the rules allow it.

B) A bow has no "shots" in the weapon, so I don't see how you could apply Rain of Fire to a bow.

C) A blast weapon doesn't really target anything. A blast weapon fires in a cone, but I would not say that it targets a cone. For that reason I would say no to blast weapons.

[Renata Maclean]

I mean, if someone wants to blow their entire WBL in a single round, I say go for it

[Helot_Commander]

Jasque wrote:

B) A bow has no "shots" in the weapon, so I don't see how you could apply Rain of Fire to a bow.

I believe it would be one shot only, as Drawn is listed as:

CRB Pg. 170 wrote:

When a weapon entry states that its capacity is drawn, it means that you can hold only one such weapon in the number of hands required to use it. You can hold only a single grenade or shuriken in one hand, you can have only one arrow nocked at a time, and you can wield only one net at a time. Drawing a weapon—such as grabbing a grenade from your belt—requires a move action.

With Quick reload stating:

CRB Pg. 182 wrote:

You can reload this weapon as part of the same action as firing it, instead of taking a move action to reload.

Since it's a reload, it's clear that you are out of ammo.

So, I guess it's only the grenade launcher I can use for maximum damage!