DnD SWAT Team

[BRP2]

A fun little thought. What classes/items/feats from DnD combination could replicate a real SWAT team and SWAT tactics. Any source available, even make your own for fun.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Shield spells would be an absolute must.

 

[thedungeondelver]

Well, let's see...SWAT = Special Weapons And Tactics...so what special weapons and tactics would we have?

A few (three?) team members each armed with a crossbow of speed (get your AR/15 / M4 Carbine right there). They also have a wand of knock and each a scroll of stinking cloud, a scroll with web and a scroll with hold person (for forcing doors and for non-lethally subduing perps). Each also has an amulet of teleportation. These guys are your front-door men for hostage rescue.

A high INT, high CHA character armed only with a sidearm of some type - maybe a Drowish hand crossbow - with a scroll of persuasion or command (your negotiator).

Definitely someone standing by with potions of healing.

Everyone's armored up in elfin chain - light, durable, and capable of protecting the wearer well. All the aspects of a good Kevlar vest or Interceptor body armor.

A magic-user with shield and ESP (at the least) memorized. Maybe wizard eye and clairaudience as well. He's your electronics man, keeping the situation under control, watching the perps in a standoff situation and relaying information to the rest of the team.

One or possibly two elves armed with longbows and arrows of slaying - there's your sniper team. Give the pair of them a spotter wearing cusps of eyes of the eagle.

 

[Corsair]

If you could find a way to put glitterdust on a thunderstone, you'd have a nice flashbang.

 

[thedungeondelver]

If you could find a way to put glitterdust on a thunderstone, you'd have a nice flashbang.

A scroll of power word: stun - there you go!

 

[Meloncov]

Just about any adventuring party hired by law enforcement would effectively be a SWAT team, especially compared to gaurds with leather armor and shortspears.

 

[BRP2]

Let's not forget, almost every time the goal isn't to kill the enemies but to subdue them.

 

[VirgilCaine]

A few (three?) team members each armed with a crossbow of speed (get your AR/15 / M4 Carbine right there).

Nah, Rod of Many Wands. Holds 3 wands and uses them at the same time--Ray of Exhaustion, Ray of Enfeeblement and a Ray of Clumsiness.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

You'll need exotic weapon masters with the expert tactician feat, of course (Special Weapons and Tactics)

 

[Ulrik]

Rogues with saps and UMD? SWAT operates along the "hit hard and fast" lines, right? So the rogues go in, with surprise and hopefully win initiative, and gets lots of opportunities make nonlethal sneak attacks before the targets know what hits them. UMD for all the mentioned utility spells.

Don't think there's any way to replicate the fact that most people tend to listen when somebody breaks down your door and runs in with assault rifles and yells "DOWN DOWN DOWN!!"...

(Hey, wand of command! Lousy save DC though...)