Now THAT makes a 300gp hand crossbow worth buying. Regardless of die used, if 8 or 10 is rolled, the die is rolled again, as with an arquebus. ![]() ![]() What we did have was HR4 - A Mighty Fortress, and it's unique rules for firearms seemed a good mix for the historical image of crossbows as deadly weapons that rendered heavy armor obsolete:Īt Short Range, armor is ignored, AC depends entirely on Dexterity, cover (and magic) (this makes the ability for crossbows to be fired in melee especially deadly)Īt Medium Range, armor is penalized by 5, so that Chain & worse is worthless, and AC cannot be worse than 10 modified by target's dex, cover & magic defense.Īt Long Range, armor is penalized by 2 with the same caveats. In theory crossbows do not suffer from the rule that everyone ignores where bows for Str 18% are 3-5x the normal price and require such strength to string them, since their description states that they are "purely mechanical devices", so they have that going for them in exchange for not having any damage modification from any character trait, unique to them and the arquebus.Ĭ&T realized how b/s all of what I wrote was and updated them, bumping the ranges and upping damage 1d8+1/1d10+1 for heavy and 1d6+1/1d8+1 light, but we didn't have that when I was playing, and it's still weak, when you read accounts that the medieval catholic church banned their use against Christians because they were so deadly. In the magic solves everything front, even if you get magical bolts they on average are of lesser quantity than magical arrows, and admittedly the crossbow fares better than the bow (which is just.bow+1), though they are almost always light when magical. ![]() In exchange for +10/20/30 range over bows, and the heavy costing inexplicably 25gp less than a longbow (and the light crossbow defying all reason and costing 5gp more than its shortbow cousin), they sacrifice rate of fire (1/2 of shortbow and 1/4 of longbow) and have damage that is just wizard melee level, in addition to the not getting strength bonuses, and with a speedrating for the heavy that, while not the worst (that honor goes to the arquebus), is still in the 10 club.
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