I could swear I posted this earlier today, but it seems to have disappeared, so here goes.
In a recent thread on using a shield while wielding a crossbow, I had an idea for a shield/weapon combo:
Mancastle and castlebow
The Mancastle is a form of tower shield with a firing slit in it, as well as a hinged stand (usually metal legs or a panel) at the bottom of the shield that allows it to be set up and provide rudimentary cover while unheld.
The castlebow is a heavy crossbow with a pintle built into the foregrip that matches a hole at the base of the mancastles firing slit.
When wielded as normal, the mancastle uses the stats for a normal tower shield. When applying the alternate use of a tower shield, it only provides Improved Cover instead of Total cover for the hex side selected. However, it gains these benefits:
When the castlebows pintle is inserted into the hole, and the wielder grips the handle built into the shield directly below it, the character may fire the crossbow two-handed and still gain the cover from the shield, so long as the character does not move. Furthermore, if the stand is deployed, the shield provides the cover without the character having to hold the shield (such as while reloading the crossbow), but ONLY from ranged attacks -- a melee attacker could easily kick the shield aside.
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In Iron Kingdoms they have a similar weapon/shield called a gunshield. Just thought you'd like to know.
In Iron Kingdoms they have a similar weapon/shield called a gunshield. Just thought you'd like to know.
Very cool, if I were interested in that genre I'd look into it. I'm cuirious how similar the details are.