pre-loading slings


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This might go in rules questions, so, sorry if this is the wrong place.

Can you walk around with loaded slings, ready to fire? The sling itself has negligible weight and cost, so instead of walking around with one sling and 10 bullets, how would you handle someone wanting to walk around with 10 loaded slings (with a fire and forget mentality)? Would you assign a failure chance (i.e., when you reach for your sling, there's an x% chance the bullet fell out)? Or would you say you always need to load a sling directly before firing?

Thanks!


i'm wondering on how can you do that... a sling is loaded with stones or something similar.. if you load it and then put the sling in your sack or near your leg, the stone(or else) will fall.

Scarab Sages

You would walk with the sling in hand and keep the stone there, but if it was on your belt or something, the stone would fall out.


For one sling it would be exactly as reasonable as wandering around with a weapon in hand and ready to fight. Most DMs are OK with this in a dungeon but not while hiking all day. For ten you're going to need some followers to play caddy for you.


Use a little gummi-arabicum to preload the sling. Or some weak glue.


I never even considered that walking around with my sling pre-loaded was an issue. Certainly not in a dungeon, if not for 8 hours of overland travel. Do people have issue with pre-loaded crossbows too?! You can loosely wrap the straps around the sling pocket enough to secure it if you keep it on your person in a manner where it won't be tumbling around much. Seems like a ridiculously trivial thing to not allow "because realism."


I've always had a problem with preloaded crossbows. If you're walking around with the weapon in hand, no problem, it's loaded. If you have to draw and fire, it's not.

ETA: Repeating crossbows are the exception. They can be loaded in advance.


From a balance perspective it's not a problem. But from a realism perspective, as a GM, I would say the stone always falls out unless you keep the weapon in hand and readied.

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