One shot, one kill !!

[Diirk]

All you have to do is get 50 damage with a single shot, and have the frost giant fail its Massive Damage Save.

70 damage for huge creatures (+10 for each size category category above medium)

 

[shilsen]

70 damage for huge creatures (+10 for each size category category above medium)

That's an optional rule.

 

[Notmousse]

There's also the exploding quality for arrows (and other ammunition).

Are you sure he didn't just use a knockback arrow and push the giant off a steep cliff? Technically it would still be with one arrow (and an 'aid another' by hundreds of feet of nothing between giant booty and cold hard stone at the bottom), and counts as a clean kill.

 

[Baramay]

I think the main idea is not using slaying arrows.

Why are you considering average damage since "he is said to have killed a frost giant with one arrow" I think it's fair to assume he did max. damage. Isn't it?

And do you mind posting the results once you've statted this guy?
I'd love to see it, maybe here or over at the NPC Wiki?

http://d20npcs.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Thanks.

I made a mistake in not factoring the arrow damage. So figuring d8=8. Then the damage from the critical itself would be (+6+1+4+5+8)*3=72+ extra rolled damage 31 (avg) new total 103. Nice!

The NPC teaches his students how to kill with one shot as well, so I am trying to stay away from too magic. I would imagine the students are dropping ogres not frost giants.

I would be happy to include the NPC on your website. I am going to look at the other trainers listed and maybe with help we can flesh them out.

 

[Endur]

bow: Oathbow
arrow: bane arrow
classes: Ranger 5/Deepwood Sniper 10 (DS is better than OOBI, double check pre-reqs)
feats: all the archery ones
scrolls: Hunter's Mercy and Fell the Greatest Foe

 

[entr0py]

Fell the Greatest Foe only works with melee attacks.

 

[Baramay]

Fell the Greatest Foe only works with melee attacks.

In that case I made a mistake in my calculations. So minus 2d6 (7) but I misssed copying Improved favored enemy so on the critical (+9) that makes it 105 pts of damage with a normal arrow. I am apprehensive about Deepwood Sniper. Do any other prestige classes give a +2 to the critical multipier. As well as the cover issues. If a 3.5 version was printed this character would do very well having even a x4 multipier.

 

[Iku Rex]

"Swift death to those who have wronged me!"

Human Ranger 5/Deepwood Sniper (MotW) 7/Peerless Archer (SilvMarch) 3

Key abilities:
Projectile Improved Critical +2 (DS 7, improve crit mod by +2)
Power Shot (PA 3, "power attack" with bow)

Feats:
1,1,2*,3,6,9,12,15
Point Blank Shot, Weapon Focus (Longbow), Rapid Shot, Far Shot, Precise Shot, Quick Draw, Improved Precise Shot, Able Sniper (RotW)

Spells: Hunter's Mercy (SC).

Equipment used (15th level, max 200000 gp, used less than 100000 gp):
Oathbow (25600 gp) with shocking burst added (+24000 gp)
Greater Bracers of Archery (25000 gp)
Should buy lots of Pearls of Power (1000 gp each) to repeat the one-shot kill many times a day.
Fiercebane (DMG2) arrows, giant type

Base damage:
1d8 bow
+2 Str (could probably convince DM to get better...)
+5 enhancement, oathbow
+2 enhancement, fiercebane arrow (as bane)
+1 competence, greater bracers of archery
+15 power shot
+4 favored enemy giants
+1 point blank shot

Crit is 4x (oathbow) +2 (deepwwod sniper) = 6x

Extra damage (extrapolating for 6x crit):
+2d6 oathbow
+2d6 bane (fiercebane)
+1d6 shock (shocking burst)
+5d10 fiercebane critical
+5d10 shocking burst critical


Total average damage on one shot: 6x(1d8+30)+5d6+10d10 = 207+ 17 + 55 = 279 damage

 

[Abraxas]

Human - Ranger 5/Deepwood Sniper 7/Peerless Archer 3
Str 18, Wis 12

Favored Enemy Giant (+4)
Improved Favored Enemy (Giants +3 for a total of +7)
Hunters Mercy Cast

Deepwood Sniper 7 gives the (ex) ability
Increase Crit Multiplier of longbow by 2

Peerless Archer 3 gives
Power Shot (power attack with a ranged weapon)

Ready Shot - 3d6 damage when readied against a charging for within 15 ft

Bracers of Archery, Greater (give +1 damage)

Composite (Str 18) Oathbow +5, Holy, Giantbane, Flaming burst
The crit multiplier for this bow when the oath ability is invoked versus the target frost giant bumps up from x3 to x4. The deepwood sniper extraordinary ability bumps that up to x6

Fiercebane (giant) arrow - does +5d10 on a crit with this bow

If this character hits a charging giant within 15 ft using full power shot this character should do
[1d8+7 (magic, bane) +4 (Str) +7 (Fav Enemy) +15 (power shot) +1 (bracers)] x6
+ 2d6 (Holy)
+ 2d6 (Oath bonus)
+ 3d6 (Rdy Shot)
+ 5d10 (Fiercebane)
+ [(1d6 fire + 5d10 burst)] x1.5 (vulnerability)

Average damage should be - 225 + 7 + 7 + 10 + 27 + 46 = 322

 

[Thurbane]

I'm going to take a guess and say it was flavor text, rather than the record of a real combat.

Even if it was a real combat, maybe the DM was using some kind of insta-kill rule, like the two natural twenties in a row dealie.

Kind of like Bard does in the Hobbit.