Is there a ranged version of Cleave?

[Alzrius]

Is there a way to Cleave (or even Great Cleave) for ranged attacks? E.g. you kill something with your ranged attack, and can then immediately take another one against a nearby creature? I can't seem to find any feats for this (preferably from WotC, but third-parties work also), and I'm wondering if there's something that I've missed out there.

 

[Wolfwood2]

Is there a way to Cleave (or even Great Cleave) for ranged attacks? E.g. you kill something with your ranged attack, and can then immediately take another one against a nearby creature? I can't seem to find any feats for this (preferably from WotC, but third-parties work also), and I'm wondering if there's something that I've missed out there.

The closest from a conceptual sense would be Penetrating Shot (PHB II) where you can fire off a single shot that attacks every creature in a 60 foot line. This represents the visual of a shot so powerful it rips through several creatures in a row.

Mechanically it functions nothing like Cleave, but it fits the visual of how most people picture Cleave working.

 

[ChimericDream]

I think there's a Penetrating Shot feat somewhere. Don't have my books with me, though, so I can't look it up.

Edit: Damn... beaten to it.

 

[Angerland]

there is also the exit wounds weapon enhancement. Adds 1d6 damage to your hit as it rips through the enemy. Can hit additional enemies in a straight line behind the first (doing the added damage) but for each enemy exited through you add +4 to the AC of the next eligible target.

Our archer Ranger in our last campaign rocked with this added to his bow. Add in Rapid, Point blank and precise shot and it is on!

 

[javcs]

Exit Wound enhancement and Penetrating Shot are vicious when you roll a natural 20.

Note that in the Exit Wound enhancement description, there is no limit to the range that it goes out to.

 

[Doctor DM]

I'm pretty sure there's a Ranged Cleave in one of the Warcraft RPG books. Either the core one or the Alliance and Horde Compendium.

 

[frankthedm]

The closest from a conceptual sense would be Penetrating Shot (PHB II) where you can fire off a single shot that attacks every creature in a 60 foot line. This represents the visual of a shot so powerful it rips through several creatures in a row.

Mechanically it functions nothing like Cleave, but it fits the visual of how most people picture Cleave working.

Uhm, 12, possibly 24* killed with one arrow? PHB2's penatrating shot is more like how I picture a rail gun.

12 or 24 depends on whether the DM uses the PHB text that defines lines or the more generous Example given in the same book that defines lines.

 

[DreadArchon]

Uhm, 12, possibly 24* killed with one arrow? PHB2's penatrating shot is more like how I picture a rail gun.

All the funnier because it's so true.

I can imagine a ranged cleave, though. Maybe you skip the arrows off of the person's skull and into someone else? Silly, but not out of line with D&D.