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I don't quite know how to calculate my to hit bonus for the following chain of feats. Please help. Please take to account the prerequisites are fulfilled.

Lv10 Rogue, BAB: +7/+2, Str 14, Dex 20, Weapon Focus Shuriken, Point Blank Shot. Ring of Shurikens: swift act makes temporary +1 shurikens

Shuriken: +14/+9 TR19x2 Range 10 feet

Rapid Shot

Twin Throw

Two Weapon Fighting

Improved Two Weapon Fighting

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  • Can you link to the magic item or special ability ring of shurikens? And what's the character's Str? – Hey I Can Chan Aug 13 '17 at 22:27
  • Ring of Shurikens....it's been a while. I believe I found it in an AEG supplement of Magic gear some time back in D&D 3.0 or 3.5. Basically we can't find the site or book any more so we Home Brewed it as a ring with Magic Weapon "Shurken" at will as a swift action so you can call and throw in the same action. – Jhyarelle Silver Aug 13 '17 at 23:13
  • @KorvinStarmast Any ol' order is fine. (The pattern I used below accumulates bonuses first alphabetically by bonus type then by source, penalties alphabetically by source, then situational bonuses then penalties. For sanity more than anything else.) – Hey I Can Chan Aug 14 '17 at 15:18

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The only really complicated part of this equation is the two-weapon fighting part; shuriken are considered light weapons for the purposes of two weapon fighting. I've assumed that the rogue consistently uses +1 shuriken.

  • Standard Attack: +7 base +5 Dex +1 bonus via the feat Weapon Focus (shuriken) +1 enhancement bonus via the +1 shuriken equals +14 ranged or +15 if target is within 30 ft. via the feat Point Blank Shot (1d2+3/19-20 or 1d2+4/19-20 if target is within 30 ft., +1 shuriken)
  • Full Attack: (main hand) +7 base +5 Dex +1 bonus via the feat Weapon Focus (shuriken) +1 enhancement bonus via the +1 shuriken −2 penalty via the feat Rapid Shot −2 penalty via the feat Two-weapon Fighting equals +10 twice via the feat Twin Throw/+10/+5 ranged or +11 twice/+11/+6 if target is within 30 ft. via the feat Point Blank Shot (1d2+3/19-20 or 1d2+4/19-20 if target is within 30 ft., +1 shuriken) and (off-hand) +7 base +5 Dex +1 bonus via the feat Weapon Focus (shuriken) +1 enhancement bonus via the +1 shuriken −2 penalty via the feat Rapid Shot −2 penalty via the feat Two-weapon Fighting equals +10/+5 ranged or +11/+6 if target is within 30 ft. via the feat Point Blank Shot (1d2+2/19-20 or 1d2+3/19-20 if target is within 30 ft., +1 shuriken).

The thrower's Strength bonus to damage is halved for the thrower's off-hand attacks which is why main hand and off-hand attacks are separated in the Full Attack bullet. Had the rogue Str 10, the attacks could simply be run together as +10 twice/+10/+10/+5/+5. I wouldn't do that in case the rogue were to gain an in-combat bonus to his Strength, but a GM may prefer this second run-together format over the above format because a typical creature makes its attacks in order from its attacks at its highest (base) attack bonus to its lowest, and this makes it clear which attacks should be made when. I've never had a GM mandate main hand and off-hand attacks be interleaved rather than just making all the main hand attacks then all the off-hand ones, but your GM might, and I appreciate her commitment to the rules.

To be clear, that +10 twice/+10/+10/+5/+5 is +10 twice due to base attack bonus and the feat Twin Throw, +10 again from the feat Rapid Shot, +10 again from the first off-hand attack, +5 for the main hand iterative attack, and +5 again for the feat Improved Two-weapon Fighting.

Keep in mind that the feat Two-weapon Fighting merely reduces penalties—anybody can two-weapon fight, but a dude with the feat Two-weapon Fighting is better at it. It's the feat Improved Two-weapon Fighting that adds a second and normally impossible off-hand attack at a −5 penalty, and it takes the feat Greater Two-weapon Fighting—for which this rogue doesn't yet meet the prerequisites—to get a third at −10.

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    This is more than enough. Thank you. Str 14 on PC if you want to know. However don't you still get an extra attack form Improved Two Weapon Fighting at -5 penalty? So wouldn't be +10 TTf/+10/+5/+0? – Jhyarelle Silver Aug 13 '17 at 23:24
  • @JhyarelleSilver I think I've addressed that concern in the answer more fully now. Let me know if it needs further clarification. – Hey I Can Chan Aug 14 '17 at 15:43