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Gairus · Post by **Gairus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:58 am

um. my archer always finds it better to switch to a melee stabber so that he doesn't get slaughtered horribly by AoOs, but each to their ow n...

Shadow Monkey · Post by **Shadow Monkey** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:01 pm

Ok. thats right I tested it with Pag who is halfling. But atack bonus for throwing weapons is shown on character sheet,

What i forgot is that halflings get + 1 against large creatures, which spider is. therefore that means PBS works because i didnt get penalised and got + 1 bonus.

Dirk Cutlass · Post by **Dirk Cutlass** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:07 pm

Shadow Monkey wrote:Ok. thats right I tested it with Pag who is halfling. But atack bonus for throwing weapons is shown on character sheet,

What i forgot is that halflings get + 1 against large creatures, which spider is. therefore that means PBS works because i didnt get penalised and got + 1 bonus.

Not to be picky ... (heh its me

), but the "small stature" bonus is against anything not just large creatures. All small things (PCs, NPCs, creatures) get +1 to-hit just for being small against whatever the size of their opponent. Of course all small things also get +1 AC, which means that if a halfling attacks another halfling or other small critter the bonus to-hit is cancelled out by the bonus AC.

Tigg · Post by **Tigg** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:20 pm

Could it be, that the rats that were mentioned, were getting an extra AC bonus because they themselves are very small?

I don't know, just a thought...

Post by **tindertwiggy** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:26 pm

Yeah probably. Test it against something medium size and let us know.

Tesh · Post by **Tesh** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:50 pm

Anniko wrote:
T'orth wrote:

Now that is with my elven archer who has a 12/7 AB with this bow equiped

So it would appear that PBS does in fact work as reported in the feat details.

This was done just before on the wilderness

As an aside I gues that the AB of 8 for the first attack was because the Fire Beetle won the initiative roll so I made my first attack using my second attack of the round?
It's the 2nd number on each attack roll thats your AB, so you did indeed get 13 for your first attack and 8 for your 2nd

I knew that..... Gah, I needed sleep by then (it was nearly 11pm after a hard day)

funny that I managed to roll the AB of the oposite attack though

Anniko · Post by **Anniko** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:42 am

Kareth wrote:As an Arcane Archer I always use my bow in melee (well unless I am bothering rats or it is lagging and I accidently press the hot key twice ) - while it would be nice if PBS works as it is supposed to it will make very little difference to me as my character has trained all his life with a bow and switching weapons to get a better bonus on my attack role seems a bit cheesy

Although with the AA bonus I probably am better using the bow anyway

I'm with you Kareth... that and Ril is too weak to carry any melee weapons, at the best of times, she's got 20lbs of carry cap spare, and thats when i'm outta heal kits