Live Ammunition Feat 8Legacy Content
Archetype Source Guns & Gears pg. 129 2.0Archetype Artillerist
There are generally few things as ill-advised as being shot out of a cannon or launched by a trebuchet, but people use the tactic every so often in a desperate situation. While it's more humane to use this strategy with mindless
constructs or
undead, occasionally an exceedingly foolhardy adventurer demands the opportunity to try it. Loading a creature requires two additional
Load actions, which you must conduct personally. The creature must be willing,
unconscious, or
restrained throughout the process, and the
siege weapon must be physically capable of firing the creature in question, based on their size and shape. Typically, that means ballistas don't qualify, for example—nor do auto-catapults which require specifically-sized balls—but normal catapults and onagers work just fine. When you
Launch the weapon, if the weapon usually targets an area, you target a single 5-foot square instead. The siege weapon deals its normal damage to its target, or to the modified area, and to the creature fired.
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