This excludes light and heavy crossbows, which also have the Two-Handed property (h/t Theik). Hand crossbows do not have that property, and so two could be wielded at once. However, longbows have the Two-Handed property and so require two hands to use, meaning that most characters will be able to wield only one bow at a time.
This is similar to any ranged weapon, such as a longbow, with some differences in effective and maximum ranges (30/120 for a hand crossbow, versus 150/600 for a longbow). It's unlikely to seriously unbalance your game.Ĭrossbows are ranged weapons, meaning that you can deal damage while remaining outside of melee range and so reduce the risk of taking damage yourself for each attack you make. The overarching effect will be that crossbows will become more attractive weapons than they are now, favor combat tactics taking place over intermediate distances, and may edge out some weapons (particularly if wielding two hand crossbows). What are the consequences of a crossbow without the loading property?
Would they have to focus on a single target?.Can a ranger now use two crossbows similar to a Demon Hunter in.We are then skipping over how this 'creature' works with its 'owner' for now.Īssuming this self-loading hand crossbow is allowed, and the specific mechanism that causes it to self-load has no other mechanical impacts, what are the ramifications for RAW combat? Examples of the sorts of effects I'm thinking of: Let us assume that, in a magical world, making a self-loading crossbow is easily done. This could be done via a Flying Sword relative, the Animated Weapon, a clever gnome mechanic, a part of a skeleton that re-loads the crossbow, a golem-based weapon that moves itself to reload or any number of possibilities.
Interestingly, rapid loading crossbows with clips exist, but this is a more recent automatic invention, that is, not even remotely medieval or Swords & Sorcery Friendly. It was determined that loading was a problem and such gear would not work past the first shot. Make a weapon attack with each bolt against a target within range you can see, dealing 1 piercing damage for every bolt that connects.Years ago efforts were made to discuss use of two hand crossbows/dual wielding. When you fire the heavy repeating crossbow, you fire fifteen crossbow bolts at once. Most soldiers that use this weapon are typically supported by a crewmate standing by to reload it with one of several replacement pre-filled drum magazines while they rewound the string.īolt Barrage. Instead of pulling back the string to fire one arrow, the heavy duty string on a heavy repeating crossbow is wound back with a crank, and the tension is then released to drive a hammer that fires bolt after bolt out of a rotating drum magazine that feeds them rapidly into the chamber. Crossbow, heavy repeating Martial Ranged Weapons WeaponĪmmunition (range 200/800), heavy, two-handed, stabilizing, specialįavoring quantity over quality, this crossbow is so large and bulky that it nearly qualifies as a siege weapon in its own right.
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