Drow Shootist
Some drow take skill with the hand crossbow to new heights. You’ve learned the secrets of these fabled drow shootists. With fearlessness and swagger, you can accomplish amazing deeds with hand crossbows.
Additional Feats 8th Poison Weapon, Running Reload; 10th Skirmish Strike
Drow Shootist Dedication Feat 2
Prerequisites trained in hand crossbow
Every chance you get, you practice with the hand crossbow to increase your draw speed and accuracy. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in a given weapon or weapons, you also gain that proficiency in the Hand Crossbow. If you’re at least an expert in a hand crossbow you’re using, you gain access to its critical specialization effect. You also gain the Shootist’s Draw action.
Special You can’t select another dedication feat until you’ve gained two other feats from the drow shootist archetype.
Repeating Hand Crossbow Training Feat 4
Prerequisites Drow Shootist Dedication
You become trained in the Repeating Hand Crossbow and gain access to repeating hand crossbows and Shootist Bandolier. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in a given weapon or weapons, you also gain that proficiency in the repeating hand crossbow. If you’re at least an expert in a repeating hand crossbow you’re using, you gain access to its critical specialization effect. You can perform the Shootist’s Draw action with repeating hand crossbows.
Special If you have the Running Reload feat, you can reload a Repeating Hand Crossbow Magazine on the move. You can use Running Reload as a 3-action activity to reload a magazine into a repeating hand crossbow after you Stride, Step, or Sneak, or as a 2-action activity if you use a magazine from a shootist bandolier.
Reloading Trick Feat 6
Prerequisites Drow Shootist Dedication
Frequency once per round
Requirements You’re holding an unloaded hand crossbow.
You can fire off a single shot even when unprepared. You Interact to reload your hand crossbow and Strike with it.
Special If you have the Repeating Hand Crossbow Training feat, you can use this feat with a Repeating Hand Crossbow to load either a Bolt or a magazine, but the speed means you can fire only one bolt, then the magazine jams. You must spend a 3-action Interact activity to remove the jammed magazine and clear it before it can be used again.
Lethargy Poisoner Feat 8
Prerequisites Drow Shootist Dedication, trained in Crafting
You’ve learned more than the use of Hand Crossbow from drow lore. During your daily preparations, you can prepare a dose of Lethargy Poison from ordinary materials in a wilderness or urban area. If you’re an expert in Crafting, you can instead craft a dose of Stupor Poison. You can prepare two doses (of either poison) if you’re a master in Crafting and three doses if you’re legendary in Crafting. The save DC for this poison is equal to your class DC. Only you can use these poisons, and they expire the next time you make your daily preparations. The GM might decide that the area you’re in is too barren to provide the materials you need for this feat.