Hello, I have a question about spell-woven shot.
If a character uses the slashing gust cantrip with spell-woven shot.
Make a spell attack roll against each target's AC. This deals 2d4 slashing damage. On a critical success, a target also takes 1d4 persistent bleed damage. If you're attacking two creatures, this counts as two attacks for your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after both attacks.
Is t possible to attack two creatures with the spell-woven shot and slashing guts ? two attack rolls with the penalty doesn't increase until after both attacks ?
Thanks for your future answer.
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You can't use two-targets version of Slashing gust with Spell-woven shot at all: Slashing gust demands two free hands for it and you have a firearm or a crossbow.
Gauntlet Bow is a free hand crossbow, allowing for a wielded crossbow and having a hand free at the same time.
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Slashing Gust is a bit odd since it is the only Cantrip that I know of that has a 'hand free' requirement.
I probably wouldn't enforce that for Spell-woven Shot or Spellstrike.
But I also wouldn't allow the two-target version of this spell without an additional ability that lets you target more than one creature with the Strike and the spell. For Spellstrike there is Spell Swipe that would do exactly that (though only for melee attacks).
I'm not aware of anything that does that for ranged attacks or anything in the Spellshot Archetype that is going to do that. So no, for Spell-Woven Shot, you are looking at single target only for any spell that you use. Even if the spell itself could target multiple targets.
There is literally a 8 level Magus feat for the exact situation. It's 3 action feat that goes as follows I'm copying and pasting from AoN below here.
You attack in an arc and enact your spell against everyone you hit. Make a Spellstrike, but roll separate Strikes to attack two creatures, each of whom must be within your melee reach and adjacent to each other. If your spell could affect two or more targets, your spell affects whichever foes you hit, not just the first target; otherwise, choose one target to affect with the spell. A Spell Swipe counts as two attacks for your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after you make both attacks.
If you're using a weapon that has the sweep trait, its circumstance bonus applies against both targets. You can use this activity with only melee Strikes, even if you have the starlit span hybrid study or a similar ability.
If you use Expansive Spellstrike to Spellstrike with an area spell, apply the area as described in Expansive Spellstrike, choosing one of the creatures you Strike to determine the area and whether the spell fails due to a critically failed Strike. If you use Expansive Spellstrike to Spellstrike with a targeted spell, the spell is lost completely only if both Strikes are critical failures.
Also note it has to be a melee attack .