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<blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3114504" data-attributes="member: 7280">OOC: Which is why I mentioned that Dragen has multiple feats and by implication the highest BAB of anyone in the party for not hitting Carver. It's also why Dragen isn't firing two arrows a round. Plus I'm pretty sure Dragen is acting after the Bugbear, so he could always break the grapple and seal his doom by dismissing his cover voluntarily.Normally firing into a grapple gives the bugbear 3/4 cover (+7 AC) and because he's also in melee an additional -4 to hit. Dragen negates the -4 with Precise Shot, and lessens tha 3/4 cover with Sharp-shooting down to +2 AC. Dragen normally has a +11 to hit, making the final to hit for firing into the grapple +9. That's still a better chance to hit than almost anyone else without a special maneuver or magical enhancement. But I guess I should have explained the train of numbers more thoroughly just so no one else thinks it was a bad idea because they missed a bonus or correction. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Assuming a basic bugbear, it's now got an AC of 16 because it's denied its Dex bonus. That's anything over a 5 hitting, which doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Heard, post: 3114504, member: 7280"] [color=slategrey]OOC: Which is why I mentioned that Dragen has multiple feats and by implication the highest BAB of anyone in the party for not hitting Carver. It's also why Dragen isn't firing two arrows a round. Plus I'm pretty sure Dragen is acting after the Bugbear, so he could always break the grapple and seal his doom by dismissing his cover voluntarily. Normally firing into a grapple gives the bugbear 3/4 cover (+7 AC) and because he's also in melee an additional -4 to hit. Dragen negates the -4 with Precise Shot, and lessens tha 3/4 cover with Sharp-shooting down to +2 AC. Dragen normally has a +11 to hit, making the final to hit for firing into the grapple +9. That's still a better chance to hit than almost anyone else without a special maneuver or magical enhancement. But I guess I should have explained the train of numbers more thoroughly just so no one else thinks it was a bad idea because they missed a bonus or correction. :D Assuming a basic bugbear, it's now got an AC of 16 because it's denied its Dex bonus. That's anything over a 5 hitting, which doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. ;)[/color] [/QUOTE]

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