Bounty Hunter BG2
Bounty Hunter is a Best Baldur's Gate 2 class in BioWare's cRPG of 2000, Baldur's Gate 2. Bounty Hunters are notable for their trap-setting abilities.
Example of Bounty Hunter Tactics
Bounty Hunters can set up to 7 snares in a given area. We can set all of our snares, rest to replenish them, and then set more in adjacent areas. Since some enemies can be led between areas (aka, area-transition, cf. Seamless Transition cRPGs), we can lure them through several rooms and passageways, to their doom.
Take for example the encounter in the Den of Seven Vales.
ME TEMPER'S BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT YE BOTHERIN' ME.
There is a nasty rival adventuring party staying there led by a bad-tempered dwarf, so let's give them the surprise of a life-time. Upstairs, we set several snares just outside the room they're staying in. Then, we rest in the inn and set more snares downstairs. Then we rest again and set even more snares outside the inn. Next, we aggro our victims and lead them through those trapped areas. Dead.
This is a hunter of men, skilled in tracking quarry and bringing them back alive... whether for lawful authorities or underworld masters. Bounty Hunters are specially trained at their task and make fearsome opponents. They have honed their trap making abilities well beyond that of the average thief.
Bounty Hunter Advantages
- +15% to trap setting
- He can lay special traps (other than the ones that all thieves receive). The traps are more powerful than the typical thief trap, and the effect varies according to level.
Bounty Hunter Traps
- 1st level: 3d8 +5 missile damage and Slow BG2 target for 5 rounds on failed save vs. spell at -4
- 11th level: 4d8 +5 missile damage and Hold BG2 target for 5 rounds on failed save vs. spell at -1
- 16th level: Otiluke's Resilient Sphere BG2 on target for 7 rounds on failed save vs. spell
- 21st level: Maze BG2 the target (no-save)
- Range: Visual range of the caster
- Duration: Permanent until triggered
- Area of Effect: 1 creature within a 35-ft. radius
- Saving Throw: Special
No-Save Maze Trap is a good example of Bounty Hunter cheese: Maze enemy, set Spike Trap, enemy returns and dies.
Bounty Hunter Disadvantages
- Gets only 20% to distribute between thief abilities each level
- Cannot be of Lawful alignment.
Bounty Hunter Build
- Minimum stats: 3-9-3-3-3-3
- Recommend stats: 18-18-16-9-3-18
- Recommended Proficiencies: Katana (Celestial Fury backstabs) and Single Weapon Style
- Recommended Skills: Set Traps (100), Detect Illusions (100), Find Traps (100)
- Recommended HLAs: Use Any Item, Set Spike Trap.
- Magic Resistance Baldur's Gate: Bounty Hunters have no problems reaching 100% MR through Use Any Item.
- Note that Yoshimo BG2 is a Bounty Hunter.
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